Jorge Pinto is an Associate Professor at the Department of General and Romance Linguistics at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where he has been teaching since 2014. He has also been a researcher at the Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa since 2011, where he conducted a post-doctoral research on the acquisition of Portuguese as a foreign language (L3) by Arabic speakers. He holds a PhD in Education (Language Teaching) from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2010).
His main research interests focus on the didactics of PFL/PL2, teacher training, the acquisition of Portuguese L3 and multilingualism. He has published articles in scientific journals and chapters in books in his areas of research, and has also edited books and thematic volumes in journals in his areas of interest.
Since 2015, he has been pedagogical coordinator of ICLP’s PFL/PL2 courses and, since 2014, co-director of the Portuguese Language Centre at Beijing Foreign Studies University, as part of a cooperation consortium signed between this university and the University of Lisbon.