Integrated member

Biographical Note

Susete Albino is an Invited Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH and the University of Leiria and Oeste, and an Integrated Researcher at EDUNOVA.ISPA. She is a Collaborating Researcher at CHAM, within the Transcultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies Group, and at LE@D. She holds a PhD in Portuguese Studies—Portuguese Language Teaching, a Master’s degree in Teaching Portuguese as a Second and Foreign Language, and a postgraduate qualification in Public Policy. She co-created the Level Zero Guidelines and the Portuguese as a Non-Native Language placement tests for Portugal’s Directorate-General for Education. She coordinates and reviews textbooks and teaching materials and co-authors resources on Portuguese as a Non-Native Language, published by Porto Editora and Camões, I.P. She has teaching and training experience in Portugal, Guinea-Bissau and Timor-Leste. She serves on the National Certification Jury for Portuguese Teaching Abroad and supervises Master’s and doctoral research.

Research Interests

Didactics of Portuguese as a Second, Foreign and Non-Native Language
Inclusion of Students with an Immigrant Background
Public Education Policies
Literatures of Portuguese-speaking Countries

Relevant Publications

Caels, F., Segura, J., & Albino, S. (2025). Inclusão linguística e curricular de alunos migrantes: Orientações para o Nível Zero. Direção-Geral da Educação.

Albino, S., Caels, F., & Segura, J. (2025). Teste de Posicionamento em PLNM: 3.º ciclo do Ensino Básico e Ensino Secundário. Direção-Geral da Educação.

Albino, S. (2024). The development of materials for teaching Portuguese in East Timor: An analysis of the manuals produced for the Anticorruption Committee (CAC). Orientes do Português, 6, 163–194.

Albino, S. (2023). Memória, hibridismo e subalternidade em “O plantador de abóboras” de Luís Cardoso. Veredas, 40, 92–103. https://doi.org/10.24261/2183-816×0640

Albino, S. (2021). O Português Língua Não Materna no currículo nacional: Trajetória de uma política educativa. Indagatio Didactica, 13(3), 77–93. https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v13i3.25512

Current PhD students

Isabel Maria Carreira Agostinho Diniz (supervision)
Integration and inclusion of Portuguese as a Non-Native Language students in secondary education
PhD in Language Didactics—Multilingualism and Education for Global Citizenship, Universidade Aberta and NOVA FCSH

Vanda Cristina Varela Magarreiro (supervision)
Museums and museum spaces in foreign-language teaching and learning
PhD in Language Didactics—Multilingualism and Education for Global Citizenship, Universidade Aberta and NOVA FCSH

Ângela Soledade Pereira (supervision)
The podcast as a tool for teaching and learning European Portuguese as a foreign language
PhD in Language Didactics—Multilingualism and Education for Global Citizenship, Universidade Aberta and NOVA FCSH

Maria Elisa Tavares Figueiredo Areias (supervision)
Digital resources in Portuguese as a Host Language teaching: A theoretical and operational framework for developing adult migrants’ autonomy and linguistic agency
PhD in Language Didactics, Universidade Aberta and NOVA FCSH

Luís Filipe Martins Rodrigues (supervision)
Effective learning environments in Portuguese language teaching in Cabo Verde
PhD in Language Didactics, Universidade Aberta and NOVA FCSH

External collaborations

Bárbara Bäckström (Universidade Aberta, Portugal)
Catarina Oliveira (Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
César Morais (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)
Fausto Caels (University of Leiria and Oeste, Portugal)
João Paulo Pereira (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)
Joaquim Segura (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Luana Loria (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)
Margarida Rendeiro (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)
Maria João Hortas (Polytechnic University of Lisbon, Lisbon School of Education, Portugal)
Sílvia Almeida (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)

Alumni

Ana Lúcia da Silva Reis (PhD completed in 2026)