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Lecturer

Field of Research: Languages and Tourism

Subject Taught: English

Years of Experience: 24

Paula Rama da Silva is a Lecturer at the Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies (ESHTE) and at Lisbon School of Education (ESELx), Portugal, where she teaches English as a Foreign language. She is also a Researcher at the Centre for English Studies, University of Lisbon in the Cultural Studies (ULICES) research group. She has taught English Didactics and Reading and Writing Skills at Santarém Higher Institute of Education (ESES). She was ESHTE’s Erasmus Coordinator for three years in which she had the chance to coordinate the international office team, as well as develop several partnerships with over 40 different international universities. She is currently the University Ombudsman.
Her academic background was undertaken at the Faculty of Letters (FLUL), University of Lisbon between 1993 and 2003, and at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH), NOVA Lisbon University, where she concluded her Masters’ Degree in English Teaching. In 1997 she completed her 4-year Undergraduate Degree in English and German Studies and in 1998 her Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), in partnership with Nottingham Trent University; after this she joined a partnership with FLUL in the training of future teachers so that they could better understand the in-practice service by observing her own classes. From 2001 to 2003 she completed a post-graduation in English Culture. She is currently finishing her PhD research in Literary and Cultural Studies, specialisation in English Studies, with emphasis on William Hogarth’s art and its social relevance in eighteenth-century London. In 2019 she became a Teacher Specialist in Languages and Foreign Literature.

ESHTE - Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies-Portugal

Arts, Humanities and Foreign Languages

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