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Mr Pedro Marques

Pedro

Camões Teaching Fellow & European Portuguese Language Instructor

Email: pedro.marques@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: ArtsOne 2.02
Office Hours: Wednesday, 10:00-11:00, Online appointments

Profile

I have been teaching Portuguese at Queen Mary University of London since 2018. I am also a teacher with the Camões Institute in London, working with native and heritage language learners. After completing a degree in Portuguese and English studies from Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, I worked in schools in Portugal as an instructor of Portuguese as a native language. In 2005 I completed an MA in Portuguese Culture at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro with a dissertation on 18th-century popular literature and in 2017 an MA in Modern Foreign Languages Education at King’s College London (KCL) with a dissertation on the state-of-play of Portuguese language education and language policy in the UK. I am currently studying for a PhD in postmodern Portuguese-language literature at KCL. I have published papers on Portuguese culture, language policy and language teaching.

Teaching

POR4201 Portuguese I

POR5201 Portuguese II

POR4200 Introductory Portuguese

POR5200 Portuguese II Intensive

POR6200 Portuguese III Colonial Power and Desire (convened by Prof. Else Vieira) 

Research

Publications

Language Learning and Policy "A Widely Spoken Lesser-Taught Language: Portuguese in British Higher Education". Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, 27, 383-401, 2018, http://japs.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/00_ReapJaps-27-383-401_PedroMarques.pdf 

“Portuguese complementary education in the United Kingdom”, Revista Portuguesa de História, 48, 209-226, 2017, http://doi.org/10.14195/0870-4147_48_9

“Portuguese as a primary Modern Foreign Language in the United Kingdom: the teachers’ perspectives”, Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 48, 49-67, 2016, http://www.fpce.up.pt/ciie/sites/default/files/ESC48Pedro.pdf 

Portuguese culture “Os lugares do morto: o que faz Eça na literatura portuguesa contemporânea”, Luso-Brazilian Review, 56.1, 19-38, 2019, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/731151 

“The Papel Volante: a Marginalized Genre in Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Culture?”, Portuguese Studies, 33.1, 22-38, 2017, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/portstudies.33.1.0022  

Public Engagement

I run Portuguese language outreach activities for secondary and Sixth Form students and organise the Camões Annual Lecture.

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