
saras@um.edu.mo
Tel
(853) 8822 4055
Office
E21-3096
Consultation Hours
TUE 15:00 – 16:00
FRI 15:00 – 16:00
Sara Gonçalves dos SANTOS
Education
- PhD in Applied Linguistics – University of Macau
- MA in Applied Linguistics – University of Macau
- BA in Modern Languages and Literatures – Portuguese and English Studies – Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Research Interests
- Instructed Second Language Acquisition
- Task-Based Language Teaching
- Measuring Oral Performance in Portuguese L3
- Individual differences
Courses Regularly Taught
Teaching Area
- Portuguese as a Foreign Language
- Applied Linguistics
Current Courses
- Thesis (PORT7990)
- Oral Comprehension and Production Skills III (PORT2006)
Previous Courses
- Special Topic in Portuguese Applied Linguistics II
- Academic Thesis (PORT7999)
- Academic Thesis (AHGC7399)
- Oral Comprehension and Production Skills III (PORT2006)
- Oral Comprehension and Production Skills IV (PORT2012)
- Conversation I (PTSB214)
- Conversation II (PTSB224)
- Communicating in Portuguese (BPTS104)
- Living Portuguese (BPTS105)
- Language Laboratory: Development of Listening Skills III (BPTS201)
- Portuguese Language and Culture I (BPTS204)
- Introduction to Conversation I (BPTS114)
- Introduction to the Culture of the Portuguese-speaking World (BPTS115)
- Portuguese Language and Culture III (BAPT211)
- Practice in Language Laboratory IV (BAPT215)
- Portuguese Language And Culture II (BAPT201)
- Practice In Language Lab III (BAPT203)
- Portuguese Language I (PORT113)
- Portuguese Language II (PORT193)
- Portuguese Language III (PORT292)
- Portuguese Language IV (PORT293)
AILP – Portuguese Linguistics International Association
EuroSLA – European Second Language Association
Published Articles
- Santos, S. (2021). Complexidade da tarefa: síntese de estudos na variável“± poucos elementos” da Hipótese da Cognição (Task Complexity: Synthesis of Studies on the Variable“± Few Elements” of the Cognition Hypothesis). Études Romanes de Brno 42(2): 249-280. https://doi.org/10.5817/ERB2021-2-17
- Santos, S. (2021). Planeamento estratégico no desempenho oral de tarefas: revisão da literatura (Strategic planning on the oral performance of tasks: literature review). in: M. J. Grosso & J. Zhang, A Promoção do Português em Macau e no Interior da China (2a. edição). Macau: Universidade de Macau/ LIDEL (pp. 202-220), ISBN 978-99965-1-162-2.
- Santos, S. (2021). Complexidade linguística e correção no desempenho oral de uma tarefa argumentativa (Linguistic complexity and accuracy on the oral performance of an argumentative task). Moderna Sprak 115(1): 37-55.
- Santos, S. (2020). Promover o multilinguismo: uma abordagem por tarefas – desempenho oral e o papel da proficiência (Promoting multilinguism: a task-based approach – oral performance and the role of proficiency). Diadorim, 22(1): 200-219.
- Santos, S. (2018). Effects of task complexity on the oral production of Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreign language. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2(1), 49–62. DOI: http://doi.org/10.22599/jesla.40
- Santos, S. (2018). A competência oral: uma abordagem por tarefas (Oral competence: a task-based approach). Revista Domínios de Linguagem, 12 (2): 1000-1020. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/DL34-v12n2a2018-11
- Santos, S. (2017). Desempenho Oral em PLE do Aprendente Falante de Chinês numa Abordagem por Tarefas. Atas do V Simpósio Mundial de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, (pp. 3805-3822), ISBN 978-88-8305-127-2.
- Santos, S. (2014). Perfil do Público Aprendente da Licenciatura em Estudos Portugueses da UM. In Maria José Grosso e Ana Paula Cleto Godinho, Português na China: Ensino e investigação. Lisboa: LIDEL. ISBN 978-972-757-709-5.
Coursebook
- Santos, S. (2015). Falar pelos Cotovelos. Lisboa: Lidel
Conference Presentations
- Santos, S. (2021). Impacto da complexidade da tarefa e da sequenciação na produção oral de aprendentes chineses de português como língua estrangeira (Effects of task complexity and task sequencing on the oral production of Chinese learners of Portuguese as a foreign language). 2nd International Conference on Encounter with the Human Sciences & 4th LINCOG- International Symposium on Language and Cognition. 29/11- 1/12, Macao Polytechnic Institute/ University of São Paulo (Brazil).
- Santos, S. (2018). Oral performance of Chinese learners: task complexity. (Desempenho Oral de Aprendentes Chineses: complexidade cognitiva da tarefa). Colloquium: Production of teaching materials for PFL in the context of China and Asia Pacific. November 5 th and 6 th, Macao Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico de Macau: Centro Pedagógico e Científico da Língua Portuguesa).
- Santos, S. (2018). Task complexity on the oral performance of Chinese learners of Portuguese L3. 2018 Roundtable Seminar: Cognitive Perspectives on SLA. November 3rd and 4th, University of Macau (FAH- Department of English).
- Santos, S. (2018). Designing oral tasks for Chinese learners of Portuguese as a Foreign Language. Task-Based Language Teaching in Asia Conference. Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan.
- Santos, S. (2017). Effects of task complexity on the oral production of Chinese learners of Portuguese as a Foreign Language. EuroSLA 27. University of Reading, UK.
- Santos, S. (2016). Invited presentation: A Oralidade em PLE numa Abordagem baseada em Tarefas. II Encontro de Pontos de Rede de Ensino de PLE na Ásia 2016, 9th -10th December, 2016, IPOR- Instituto Português do Oriente, Macau, China.
- Santos, S. (2016). Uma Abordagem por Tarefas: Desenvolvimento da Competência Oral. International Conference: Teaching and Learning as a Foreign Language, co-organized by University of Macau, Beijing Foreign Studies University and University of Lisbon, 8th – 9th April, 2016, University of Macau, China.
- Santos, S. (2015). Desempenho Oral em PLE do Aprendente Falante de Chinês numa Abordagem por Tarefas. V Simpósio Mundial de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa – De Volta ao Futuro, 8th -11th October 2015, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.