Geboren am 05. November 1977 in Águeda (Portugal).

• Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkomprehension
• Interkulturelles Lernen
• Mehrsprachige Interaktion
• Herkunftssprache

Monografien und Sammelbände

• HELMCHEN, C. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (eds.) (2018). Plurilingual literacy practices at school and in teacher education. Berlin: Peter Lang.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & SIMÕES, A. R. (2017) (org.). Plurilinguismo vivido, plurilinguismo desenhado: estudos sobre a relação dos sujeitos com as línguas. E-Book. Colecção “Encontros na Língua Portuguesa”. Santarém: Escola Superior de Educação de Santarém. 
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (org.) (2016). Didática do Português Língua de Herança. Lisboa: LIDEL.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & ARAÚJO e SÁ, Mª H. (Ed.) (2013). Comunicação electrónica em aula de Português Língua Estrangeira. Lisboa: LIDEL
• ARAÚJO e SÁ, Mª H. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2010) (org.). Formação de Formadores para a Intercompreensão: princípios, práticas e reptos / L'intercompréhension en Langues Romanes: principes, pratiques et défis. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro. URL http://www.galapro.eu/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/formacao-de-formadores-para-a-intercompreensao-principios-praticas-e-reptos.pdf
• ARAÚJO e SÁ, Mª H.; HIDALGO, R.; MELO-PFEIFER, S.; SERE, A.; VELA, C. (2009) (org.). L'intercompréhension en Langues Romanes: concepts, pratiques, formations. Aveiro: Oficina Digital. URL http://www.galapro.eu/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/a-intercompreensao-em-linguas-romanicas-conceitos-praticas-formacao.pdf
• Les Langues Modernes. Dossier : L'Intercompréhension, 1/2008. APLV [avec Christian Degache].

Artikel (Auswahl)

• ALARCÃO, I; ANDRADE, A. I.; ARAÚJO e SÁ, M. H. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2009). "De la Didactique de la Langue à la Didactique des Langues : observation d'un parcours épistémologique". Les Cahiers de l' ACEDLE, 6. http://acedle.org/IMG/pdf/Alarcao_etal_Cahiers-Acedle_6-1.pdf.
• ARAÚJO e SÁ; De CARLO, & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2011). "L'Intercomprensione nell'interazione plurilingue". In De CARLO, M. (coord.), Intercomprensione e educazione al plurilinguismo. Collana "Lingue sempre meno straniere" diretta da Danielle Lévy, Porto S. Elpidio: Wizarts editore (287-301).
• ARAÚJO, M. H.; DE CARLO, M & MELO-PFEIFER. (2010). "O que diriam sobre os portugueses?????": Intercultural Curiosity in Multilingual Chat-Rooms. In Journal of Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol.10, n.4, November 2010 (277-298).
• ARAÚJO e SÁ, Mª. H. & MELO, S. (2007). "On-line plurilingual interaction in the development of Language Awareness". In Language Awareness, 16: 1, Multilingual Matters (número especial sobre interacção electrónica) (7-20).
• ARAÚJO e SÁ, M. H. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2009) "Co-construcción de saberes lingüísticos en los chats plurilingües en lenguas románicas". Lopez Alonso, C. & Matesanz del Barrio (Ed.), Las plataformas de aprendizaje. Del mito a la realidad. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva (225-251).
• ARAÚJO e SÁ, M. H. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2015). "Représentations de futurs professeurs de Langues Romanes par rapport aux approches plurielles". In M. Mantesanz del Barrio (org.), La enseñanza de la intercomprensión a distancia. Madrid: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (77-97)
• BONO, M. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2012). "La compétence plurilingue dans une perspective socio-constructiviste et (co-)actionnelle". In G. Alao, M. Derivry, S. Yun-Roger & E. Suzuki (ed.), Didactique plurilingue et pluriculturelle : l'acteur en contexte mondialisé. Paris: Éditions des Archives Contemporaines (61-72).
• BONO, M. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2011). "Language negotiation in multilingual learning environments". In International Journal of Bilingualism, 15: 3, SAGE (291-309).
• FANECA, R.; ARAÚJO e SÁ, M. H. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2016). “Is there a place for heritage languages in the promotion of an intercultural and multilingual education in the Portuguese schools?”. Language and Intercultural Communication. DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2015.1113751.
• FERREIRA, T. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2015). “Desenvolvimento da competência plurilingue: quebrar o habitus monolingue dos manuais escolares”. In M. H. Araújo e Sá & A. S. Pinho (org.), Intercompreensão em contexto educativo. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (forthcoming, 2016). “Drawing the multilingual self: how children portray their multilingual resources”. In IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, special issue 9th International Conference on Trilingual Acquisition and Multilingualism. De Gruyter Mouton.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2017). „Translanguaging“ in der mehrsprachigen schriftlichen Interaktion: Sprachliche Mittel und Ko-Konstruktion der Interkomprehension zwischen romanischen Sprachen in Chat-Rooms“. In C. Bürgel & D. Reimann (Hrsg.), Sprachliche Mittel im Unterricht der romanischen Sprachen. Tübingen: Narr Verlag (381-397).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2017). “Drawing the multilingual self: how children portray their multilingual resources”. In IRAL-International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 55/1, 41-60. DOI: 10.1515/iral-2017-0006. URL https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/iral.2017.55.issue-1/iral-2017-0006/iral-2017-0006.pdf.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2016). „Portugiesisch“. In H.-J. Krumm, E. Burwitz-Melzer, C. Riemer und G. Mehlhorn (Ed.), Handbuch Fremdsprachenunterricht. Tübingen: UTB. (6. Ausgabe) (530-534).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2016). “Translanguaging in multilingual chat interaction: opportunities for Intercomprehension between Romance Languages”. In Wang, Congcong and Lisa Winstead (ed.), Handbook of Foreign Language Research in the Digital Age. IGI Global (188-207).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2016). “Public understanding of linguistic planning and national speakers’ linguistic rights: a case study on the orthographic reform debate in Portugal”. In Language in Society, 45/3 (423-443). Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0047404516000087.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2015). “Multilingual Awareness and Heritage Language Education: children’s multimodal representations of their multilingualism”. Language Awareness. (URL : http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09658416.2015.1072208)
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2015). “An interactional perspective on intercomprehension between Romance Languages: translanguaging in multilingual chatrooms”. In Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen. Zur Theorie und Praxis des Sprachunterrichts an Hochschulen, 44/2 (100-113).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2015). “The role of the family in Heritage Language use and learning: impact on heritage language policies”. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 18/1, (26-44).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2014). «La Didactique des Langues à la croisée de tensions épistémologiques : quo vadis, Didactique des Langues? ». In Synergies Portugal, 2 (15-32). URL: http://gerflint.fr/Base/Portugal2/portugal2.html.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2013). "Blogs and the development of plurilingual and intercultural competence: report of a co-actional approach in Portuguese Foreign Language Classroom". In Computer Assisted Language Learning, CALL (Routledge / Taylor & Francis).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2012) "Intercomprehension between Romance Languages and the role of English: a study of multilingual chat-rooms". In International Journal of Multilingualism.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2011). "De la dissociation à l'articulation de compétences : apports théoriques au concept d'Intercompréhension ". In Meißner, F.-J.; Capucho, F.; Degache, Ch.; Martins, A.; Spita, D. & Tost, M. (coord.) (2011), Intercomprehension: Learning, teaching, research / Apprentissage, enseignement, recherche / Lernen, Lehren, Forschung. Tübingen: Giessener Beiträge zur Fremdsprachendidaktik. Narr Verlag (219-242)
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2011). "Researchers' multilingual awareness in an international research team". In C. Varcasia (org.), Becoming Multilingual. Language Learning and Language Policy Between Attitudes and Identities. Bern: Peter Lang (135-163).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S.  (2009). "Délocalisations dans la circulation et la production des savoirs en Didactique des Langues ". In Etudes de Linguistique Appliquée, 153 (119-128).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & ARAUJO E SA, M. H. (2010). "La construction de l'intercompréhension dans l'interaction : images des langues et conscience plurilingue dans des clavardages romanophones". In Doyé, P. & Meissner, F.-J. (Org.), Lernerautonomie durch Interkomprehension: Projekte und Perspektiven / L'autonomisation de l'apprenant par l'intercompréhension: projets et perspectives / Promoting Learner Autonomy through intercomprehension: projects and perspectives. Tübingen : Narr Verlag (267-280).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & ARAÚJO e SÁ, M. H. (2018). Multilingual interaction in chat rooms: translanguaging to learn and learning to translanguage. In International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13670050.2018.1452895
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & SCHMIDT, A. (2012). „Linking "Heritage Language" Education and Plurilingual Repertoires development: evidences from drawings of Portuguese pupils in Germany. In L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 12, p.1-30. URL http://l1.publication- archive.com/public?fn=document&id=2497&repository=1