Research sustainability and research impact are closely related concepts, both referring to the importance of extending research projects’ outcomes, changes or benefits beyond their period of implementation. However, the prominence assigned to these two concepts has been provided in an individualized way. This study aims to understand how research sustainability and impact are portrayed and problematized in the...
This study aims to identify the benefits and challenges of using Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) within the context of the hospitality industry, as perceived by students enrolled in tourism and hospitality programs. Given their role as prospective practitioners in the field, the insights of these students are pivotal. The advantages identified by responding students encompass enhanced provision ...
A pandemia da covid-19 alterou significativamente as estruturas de funcionamento das sociedades. Como uma das muitas transformações, assistiu-se a um aumento da produção e da disseminação de fake news (FN), sobretudo relacionadas com o surgimento e propagação da doença. Neste contexto, o Outro, por sua vez, tornou-se protagonista do papel de agente responsável pelos efeitos negativos associados a este cenário p...
According to the Council of Europe, educators lack awareness on the topic of digital citizenship education and its importance to educate youngsters to move critically in a highly digitalized world. It is a core component of Digital Citizenship Education (DCE) to promote democratic competences, including critical reflection, the development of social and intercultural competences, critical thinking and media lit...
This article reports on different research and pedagogical practices that have been taking place as part of a transnational European Erasmus+ project aiming to strengthen the profile of Digital Citizenship Education (DCE) in the context of Foreign Language Education (FLE). In order to do this, this article briefly reviews some of the key concepts (eg critical digital literacies, democratic cultures) for an evol...
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The expansion of early language learning has fostered the need to prepare qualified teachers of English to young learners. This paper presents findings from a multi-site case study of initial teacher education programmes created in 2015 in Portugal when English became compulsory in grades 3 and 4. The study investigated intended professional learning competences and tasks as described in curricula, as well as t...
Supported by Chou’s Octalysis Framework (2016) in the design of activities, this article investigates how Octalysis framework-based reading and writing activities can be conducive to foster the learning of reading and writing in English as a Foreign Language by primary education pupils in a collaborative project-based learning context. A case study was carried out in a third-grade classroom in a Portuguese priv...
O conceito de representação em Didática de Línguas é considerado mestiço pela sua proveniência de diversas áreas das ciências sociais e humanas (Araújo e Sá et al., 2019) e consiste na generalização da realidade para a sua compreensão (Castellotti & Moore, 2002). As representações das línguas e do Outro surgem ancoradas em processos (históricos, sócio-identitários, cognitivos) dinâmicos, evolutivos, (re)criados...