Integrated member

Margarida Alves Martins
Full Professor
Biographical Note
Research Interests
Margarida Alves Martins has been working on early literacy development and on learning to read, spell and write in primary school. She also developed research on teachers’ conceptions about multilingualism and educational practices in multilingual classrooms and on migrant students’ inclusion in school contexts. She has developed several research and intervention projects in these areas, namely on invented spelling programmes in pre-school and writing and reading programmes in primary school.
- Early literacy
- Learning to read
- Learning to spell
- Learning to write
- Multilingualism
Relevant Publications
Salvador, L., & Alves Martins, M. (2024). From spelling to reading: An intervention program with children at risk of reading failure. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 244. https://doi.org/101016/jecp.2024.105944
Leite, G., Alves Martins, M., Gaitas, S., Laranjeira, R., Alves, C. & Sarabando, T. (2024). Can peer mediation foster migrant students’ inclusion in mainstream classrooms? An exploratory case study. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2024.2356209
Albuquerque, A. & Alves Martins, M. (2022) Invented spelling as a tool to develop early literacy: The predictive effect on reading and spelling acquisition in Portuguese. Journal of Writing Research, 14(1), 109-127. https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2022.14.01.04
Dockrell, J. E., Papadopoulos, T. C., Mifsud, C. L., Bourke, L., Vilageliu, O., Bešić, E., Seifert, S., Gasteiger-Klicpera, B., Ralli, A., Dimakos, I., Karpava, S., Alves-Martins, M., Sousa, O., Castro, S., Søndergaard Knudsen, H. B., Donau, m P., Haznedar, B., Mikulajová, M., & Gerdzhikova, N. (2021). Teaching and learning in a multilingual Europe: Findings from a cross-European study. European Journal of Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00523-z
Albuquerque, A., & Alves Martins, M. (2021). Invented spelling activities in kindergarten: the role of instructional scaffolding and collaborative learning. International Journal of Early Years Education, 29(1), 96-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2020.1760085
Current PhD students
Maria Beatriz Madeira Gil (FCT scholarship 2024)
From planning to textualization: Pedagogical theories and practices. An intervention programme for teachers and pupils in primary education
External collaborations
- Ana Albuquerque
- Anabela Marcelo
- Betina Astride
- Edlia Simões
- Miguel Mata Pereira
- Mónica Gaiolas
- Manuel Montanero Férnandez (Universidade de Badajoz, Espanha)
- Sara Mourão Monteiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil)
- Jacques Fijalkow (Universidade de Toulouse II-Jean Jaurès, França)
- Terezinha Nunes (Universidade de Oxford, Reino Unido)
Alumni
- Anabela Marcelo (PhD student until 2020)
Ana Albuquerque (PhD student until 2020) - Betina Astride (PhD student until 2019)
- Liliana Salvador (PhD student until 2017)
- Mónica Gaiolas (PhD student until 2016)
- Edlia Simões (PhD student until 2015)
- Jorge Gonçalves (PhD student until 2015)
- Sérgio Gaitas (PhD student until 2013)
- Dominique Bina (PhD student until 2011)
- Miguel Mata Pereira (PhD student until 2011)
- Inês Vasconcelos Horta (PhD student until 2010)