Rima Jay Prakash
Rima has taught English as a Foreign Language in Portugal for over 20 years. She currently works as an Invited Assistant Professor at FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, where she teaches English for Professional Purposes to undergraduates on the Translation course, and Educational Psychology and Inclusion & Diversity in the Classroom to postgraduate students on various MA courses in Teaching. Additionally, she supervises several MA theses.
She is a Researcher at CETAPS, and has also been part of the editorial board for e-TEALS (Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies) and is now part of th ‘Teacher education and curriculum studies in second language education’ strand.
The dissertation for her PhD in Education was titled ‘Bridging Ideas of Best Practice in Gifted Education and Language Learning in English as a Foreign Language in Portugal’. She also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and a BSc in Psychology. She is interested in the areas of English as a Foreign Language, giftedness, inclusive practices, growth mindsets and positive psychology.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9999-0002
2024 PRESENTATION as part of a seminar titled Didáctica do Inglês para Crianças for an MA in Teaching English in Primary Education (NOVA, FCSH) Title: Embracing Children on the Autism Spectrum in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom
2024 EDITOR FOR E-TEALS an e-journal of Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies N.º 13/14 (TBC) (2021-2022)
2023 EDITOR FOR E-TEALS an e-journal of Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies N.º 11/12 (2020)
2023 EDITOR FOR E-TEALS an e-journal of Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies N.º 10 (2019)
2023 PRESENTATION TEFL 8 Virtual Conference ‘Learning to communicate – communicating to learn: English language learning in formal education’ Title: Teacher-friendly considerations for a gifted friendly classroom
2023 MEMBER OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE at the TEFL8 International Conference, ‘Learning to communicate – communicating to learn: English language learning in formal education’
2023 MEMBER OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE at the TEFL8 International Conference, ‘Learning to communicate – communicating to learn: English language learning in formal education’
2022 ONGOING PARTICIPATION in Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação da Investigação em Psicologia da Educação (monthly online training sessions)
2022 PRESENTATION Ciclo de conferências de Mestrados em Estudos de Educação (NOVA FCSH – EXCXEL) Title: Bridging Best practice in Gifted Education and English as a Foreign Language in Portugal
2022 PRESENTATION ECHA 2022 (European Commission of High Ability, Empowering every talent together (The Netherlands) Title: Gifted & teacher-friendly strategies
2021 PRESENTATION ECHA 2021 (European Commission of High Ability), Gifts and talents; Values for the Future (Portugal) Title: A study of teachers of English and their attitudes towards the Gifted and their Education in Portugal
2020 CONFERENCE HOST FOR TEdELL2020 VIRTUAL (Teachers and teacher educators: Education and Professional development for Early Language Learning) organised by CETAPS (NOVA, FCSH)
2019 PRESENTATION ECHA 2019 (European Commission of High Ability), Creativity, Research and Innovation in Gifted Education (Dubrovnik, Croatia) Title: Bridging Ideas of Best Practice in Gifted education and Language Learning in English as a Foreign Language in Portugal
2019 LED A WORKSHOP for a Post-graduate course in Special Educational Needs in Escola Superior de Educação/Instituto Politécnico de Setubal Title: Teacher-friendly Gifted Practices
