Luísa Paula Sousa Lobo Borges de Araújo. Portuguese. Female January to present Full professor

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1 First name(s) / Surname(s) Nationality Luísa Paula Sousa Lobo Borges de Araújo Portuguese Date of birth 20/05/1965 Gender Dates Main activities Name Main activities Female January to present Full professor - Coordinator of the Master s Degree in Special Needs, responsible for Master degree defenses; - Director of the Master s Degrees in Early Childhood Education Primary Education, responsible for curriculum coordination. Institution of Higher Education Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências (ISEC) Alameda das Linhas de Torres, Lisboa Dates December 2009 to November 2012 Name Researcher -Researcher responsible for Scientific Technical reports on Early Childhood Education Care (ECEC) Immigrant students achievement in PISA (Program for International Student Assessment); -Editor Computer-based assessment of foreign language speaking skills. Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010; -Advisory Board Member of the Sting Committee for the Establishment of Indicators of Foreign Language Competences; -Project Leader for research on the link between curriculum stards Literacy Achievement in PIRLS (Program for Reading Literacy Study). European Commission, Joint Research Centre Via E. Fermi, 2749 I Ispra (VA), Italy Institute for the Protection Security of the Citizen (IPSC) Sector of Econometrics Applied Statistics, Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning Dates September 2003 November 2009 Associate Professor 1

2 Main activities Name Main activities - Director of the Master s Degree in Early Childhood Education, responsible for curriculum coordination; - Director of the Master s Degree in School Supervision, responsible for curriculum coordination; - Director of the Post-graduate Program in Teaching English as a Second Language, responsible for curriculum coordination; - Team Manager of the Language Literacy area; responsible for all native language instruction for a Portuguese as a Second Language course; - Literacy Professor, responsible for Language Literacy course syllabus their adaptation to the Bologna process. Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências (ISEC) Alameda das Linhas de Torres, Lisboa Institution of Higher Education Dates September July 2003 Name Dates Main activities Name Dates Assistant Professor - Director of the Post-graduate Program in Teaching English as a Second Language, responsible for curriculum coordination; - President of the Multicultural Steering Committee of the College of Education, responsible for organizing multicultural events on the University campus; - Supervisor of Student Teachers, responsible for Pre-service Training (in-class observations evaluations); - Literacy Professor, responsible for Language Literacy course syllabus updates accreditation processes. William Paterson University 300 Pompton Road Wayne, NJ USA University September 1995 June 1997 Lecturer -Teach Portuguese literature courses in English translation Rutgers University, USA Newark Campus University September 1993 June 1995 Elementary School Teacher 2

3 Main activities Name Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects/occupa tional skills covered Name type of organisation providing education training Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects/occupa tional skills covered Name type of organisation providing education training Title of qualification awarded Principal subjects/occupa tional skills covered Name type of organisation providing education training - Social Studies Teacher (2nd 3th grades); - Responsible for Curriculum Development according to a Bilingual Immersion Model. East Orange School District 135 Glenwood Avenue East Orange, NJ USA Public Magnet School; French Immersion School Dates Doctor of Philosophy in Education Ph.D. EDUCATION Sociolinguistics; Bilingual Education English as a Second Language Education. University of Delaware, USA Research University Dates Post-graduate Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language Philology, Structure of American English Minority Education Field Work Montclair State University, USA State University Dates Bachelor s of Science in Education Educational course work to fulfill state certification requirements as an Elementary School Teacher (k-8) University of Delaware, USA Research University Mother tongue(s) Portuguese 3

4 Understing Speaking Writing Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C2 Proficient User C2 Proficient User C2 Proficient User C2 Proficient User C2 Proficient User French C1 Proficient User C1 Proficient User C1 Proficient User C1 Proficient User B2 Independent User Spanish C1 Proficient User C1 Proficient User B2 Independent User B1 Independent User B2 Independent User Italian C1 Proficient User C1 Proficient User C1 Proficient User C1 Proficient User C1 Proficient User Social skills Organisational skills - Good ability to adapt to multicultural environments, gained through my work experience in international organizations; - Excellent oral written communication skills, gained through my experience as a professor, conference presenter, journal editor; - Good ability to communicate with specific target groups (academic researchers, policy makers), gained through my coordination of educational projects; - Good ability to lead people; gained through coordination of educational projects, team management, teacher training supervision, scientific advisement. - Fast learner; - Attentive to details to conceptual frameworks; - Multilingual, with bilingual skills in English/Portuguese; - Ability to work under pressure manage. Technical skills - Ph.D Advisor; project on the relationship between adult education skills media literacy, 2010/ Director of a research project for the establishment of Literacy curriculum benchmarks in Primary Education, Portuguese Ministry of Education, 2008/2009; responsible for coordinating staff activities budget. - External Evaluator for the Lifelong Programme Socrates Leonardo DaVinci, Portuguese National Agency, 2007; responsible for scientific financial auditing. - Guest Editor Member of the Editorial Board of the journal, L1 Educational Studies in Language Literature, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2007; responsible for blind reviews for the organization of a Portuguese Special Issue. - Advisor; two Master s thesis in the area of reading comprehension with data collected based on the Program for International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), Advisor; two Master s thesis in the area of early childhood emergent reading development related to the implementation of the Portuguese National Reading Project, Advisor; one Master s thesis in the area of Civics Education in a comparative European context (Spain, France Portugal),

5 Computer skills - Advisor; Team Manager of a Curriculum Development Project, Portuguese Ministry of Education, ; responsible for coordinating activities for budget allocation. - Post-Doctoral Fellow at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Awarded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, ; responsible for designing implementing the research project, Reading Comprehension in Primary School. - Educational Consultant for a World Bank Project in Cape Verde, Summer 2002; responsible for the Teacher Training aspects of the Consolidation Project. - In-depth knowledge of the American Psychological Association publication Manual. - Knowledge of SPSS, PISA PIRLS international databases. - Ability to extract indicators from EUROSTAT statistics. Microsoft Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, Internet Applications Artistic skills - Member of the Amateur Theater Group of the College of Education, University of Delaware, USA - Drawing; Basic Level Training (private lessons), Lisbon, Portugal. Other skills - Newspaper Writer; article on Early Childhood Education Care mvieira/jornal_fenix3vf.pdf - Newspaper Writer; article on Educational Policy, Assessment, Teacher Training, 2007, Should the Same Teacher Teach all Subjects up to the 6 th Grade Level? presents a comparative Analysis of teacher training in several European countries. 5

6 Scholarships awards - Post - Doctoral Scolarship, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, Doctoral Scolarship, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, Excellence in Teaching Award, The Lusíadas Club, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Women of the Year Excellence Award, Master s Degree, University of Delaware, USA, Cum Laude, Bachelor s Degree, Peer-reviewed Journal Articles Publications Araújo, L. (2013). Assessments of Reading Comprehension: Different Measures, Different Explanatory Variables. L1 Educational Studies in Language Literature, 13, Kluwer Academic Publishers. Araújo, L. (2009). Understing text in Portuguese as L1: Primary curriculum, textbooks, assessments. L1 Educational Studies in Language Literature, 9 (4), Kluwer Academic Publishers. Folgado, C. & Araújo, L. (2009, Outubro). Processos de compreensão no 1º Ciclo: A influência dos manuais escolares. [Comprehension processes in primary school: The role of textbooks]. Palavras, 36, Journal of the Portuguese Teachers Association. Santos, C., Araújo, L. & Graça, M. (2006). Resultados das Provas de Aferição e dos Exames de Matemática e de Português do 9º ano: Que conclusões tirar? [The results of national tests in Mathematics Portuguese: What conclusions can we draw?] Portuguese Journal of Pedagogy, 40 (3), Araújo, L., & Strasser, J. (2003). Facing prejudice in the early childhood classroom. Kappa Delta Pi Record, 39 (4), Araújo, L. (2002). The literacy development of kindergarten English-language learners. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 16 (2), Araújo, L. (2002, Summer). An ESL child s emergent literacy development. Academic Exchange Quarterly, 6, (2), Araújo, L. (1999). O Bom Barqueiro. Hispania, 82, 3, Editorial Work Guest Editor, Special issue of the journal L1 Educational Studies in Language Literature, Book Editing, To know to teach mathematics. Lisbon: Gradiva, Book Editing, Arithmetic for parents. Lisbon: Gradiva,

7 Book Chapters Araújo, L. (forthcoming in 2014). Reading literacy achievement. In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life Research Well-being. NY: Springer Verlag. Araújo, L. (2013). Special features on ELL Learners (5 th Edition). In J. Christie, C. Vukelich & Roskos, K. (Eds.), Teaching Language Literacy: Preschool Through the Elementary Grades. NY: Pearson. Morais, J., Araújo, L. Leite, I., Carvalho, C., Fernes, S., Querido, L.(2012). Criar leitores [Raising readers]. Livpsic. Psicologia e Ciências da Educação. Araújo, L. (2012). Helping ELL children develop conversational academic language skills (3 rd E). In C. Vukelich, J. Christie B.Enz (Eds.), Helping young children learn language literacy: Birth through kindergarten. NY: Pearson. Araújo, L. (2011). Portugal numa europa que se quer multilingue [Portugal in a multilingual Europe]. In Ensinar uma segunda língua, pp Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. Lisboa: Relógio de Água. Araújo, L. (2011). Special features on ELL learners (4 th Edition). In J. Christie, J. Enz & C. Vukelich (Eds.), Teaching Language Literacy: Preschool through the Elementary Grades. NY: Pearson (pp , , , , ). Araújo, L. (2007). A compreensão na leitura: Investigação, avaliação e boas práticas. [Reading Comprehension: Research, evaluation good practices]. In The making of readers: From theory to practice, Ferno Azevedo (Ed.), pp Lisboa: LIDEL. Leite, I., Fernes, T., Araújo, L., Fernes, T., Querido, L., Castro, S. L., Ventura, J. Morais, J. (2006). Dificuldades de aprendizagem da leitura e da escrita [Difficulties in learning to read write]. In Língua Materna e Literatura Infantil para Professores do Ensino Básico, Ferno Azevedo (Ed.), pp Lisboa: LIDEL. Araújo, L. (2001). Literature transactions: How students respond to the Epic The Lusíadas In A. Laguna (Ed.), The Global Impact of the Portuguese Language (pp ). NJ: Transaction Press. 7

8 Conference Proceedings Araújo, L. (2011). Some Dilemmas in the teaching of mathematics. Proceedings of the International Conference on Teaching Mathematics: Questions Solutions. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. Araújo, L. (2006). Piagetians e vygotskians: Pedagogical myths promising practices (pp ). In N. Crato (Org.), Teaching mathematics: How to recover the lost time. Gradiva: Lisboa. Araújo, L. (2005). The development of thinking in literature education. Research Practice, 2, (pp.75-86). Lisbon School of Education. Scientific Reports Araújo, L.& Dinis da Costa, P. (2013). The European Survey on Language Competences: Schoolinternal External Factors in Language Learning. Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union. JRC Dinis da Costa, P. & Araújo, L. (2012). Differential item functioning (DIF): What functions differently for immigrant students in PISA 2009 reading items? Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union. EUR Villalba, C. H., Villalba, E. & Araújo, L. (2012). Advantages limitations of using EU- SILC for monitoring participation in ECEC. Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union. EUR Araújo, L.& Dinis da Costa, P. (2012). Reading literacy in PIRLS 2006: What factors explains achievement in 20 EU countries? Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union. EUR Araújo, L., Harrison, C., Shiel, G. Schillings, P., Sulkunen, S. (2011). Thematic research Reviews. In Teaching reading in Europe: Contexts, policies practices. Education, Audiovisual Cultural Executive Agency. Eurydice network. Araújo, L. (2010). Executive Summary. In L. Araújo (Ed.), Computer-based assessment of foreign language speaking skills (ii-iv ). Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union. EUR Araújo, L. (2002). Report on the Education Training Consolidation And Modernization Project in Cape Verde. World Bank Working Paper. 8

9 Newsletters Chronicles Araújo, L. (2011, July). A Educação Pré-escolar e o Bem Estar [Pre-school education wellbeing]. Jornal Fénix Digital, 3. Strasser, J., Schwartz, S., Araujo, L., Proud, M., & DiCianni, W. (2002, February). Crosscultural perspectives on teaching. NJEA Review, Araújo, L. (2001, Spring). Other than English in elementary schools: Fostering communicative competence in a second language. Focus on Elementary Newsletter, 13 (3), 1-5. Courses Taught Universidade Nova de Lisboa [New University of Lisbon] 2013 On Writing Well Scientific Writing in English (post-graduate level) Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências [Institute of Higher Education Science] 2013 to present Acquisition Development of Oral Written Language Methods of Teaching Portuguese in Primary School Seminar on Pedagogy Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências Language Acquisition Development (undergraduate level) Methods of Teaching Reading Writing (undergraduate level) Teaching English to Young Learners (post-graduate level) School Supervision (graduate level) Didactics of Mother Tongue Education (graduate level) Research Methodologies (graduate level) William Paterson University Literacy Learning (undergraduate level) Teaching Reading in the Content Areas (undergraduate level) Methods of Teaching a Second Language (post-graduate level) Psycho- linguistics of Reading (graduate level) Research Methodologies (graduate level) Rutgers University Portuguese Literature in English Translation (undergraduate level) 9