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

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

Monografien und Sammelbände

• ARAÚJO e SÁ, Mª. H. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2018). “Multilingual Interaction: dynamics and achievements”. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (special issue), Vol. 21, Issue 7. Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
• ARAÚJO e SÁ, Mª H. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (Eds.) (2010). Formação de Formadores para a Intercompreensão: princípios, práticas e reptos / L'intercompréhension en Langues Romanes: principes, pratiques et défis. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro.
• ARAÚJO e SÁ, Mª H.; HIDALGO, R.; MELO-PFEIFER, S.; SERE, A.; VELA, C. (Eds.) (2009). L'intercompréhension en Langues Romanes: concepts, pratiques, formations. Aveiro: Oficina Digital.
• HELMCHEN, C. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (Eds.) (2018). Plurilingual literacy practices at school and in teacher education. Berlin: Peter Lang.
• KAJALA, P. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (Eds.) (2019). Visualising multilingual lives. More than words. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
• Les Langues Modernes. Dossier : L'Intercompréhension, 1/2008. APLV [avec Christian Degache].
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (Ed.) (2016). Didática do Português Língua de Herança. Lisboa: LIDEL.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & YANAPRASART, P. (2019), “Plurilingual expatriate teachers in Higher Education”. European Journal of Higher Education (special issue), Autumn 2019, 9(3) 2019.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & REIMANN, D. (2018) (Hrsg.). Plurale Ansätze im Fremdsprachenunterricht in Deutschland. State of the art, Implementierung des REPA und Perspektiven. Tübingen: Narr (ISBN 978-3-8233-8189-1).
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & SIMÕES, A. R. (Eds.) (2017). 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. & ARAÚJO e SÁ, Mª H. (Ed.) (2013). Comunicação electrónica em aula de Português Língua Estrangeira. Lisboa: LIDEL
• PINTO, P. F. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (Eds.) (2018). Políticas Linguísticas em Português. Lisboa: Lidel.

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, Mª H. ; DE CARLO, M. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2020). “Formation d'enseignants de langues à l'Intercompréhension: pratiques, répercussions, contraintes. Back to the future ?”. In Le Français dans le Monde - Revue Recherches et Applications - Numéro Thématique : « Plurilinguisme et formation des enseignants". (Coordinatrices : Monica Vlad et Stéphanie Galligani), 67 (160-168). Paris : Cle International.
• 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, 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, 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).
• BONO, M. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2020). “English and Heritage Languages from a Multilingual Perspective: Challenges and Possibilities for Integration”. In Anastassiou, F. & Andreou, G. (2020). English as a Foreign Language: Perspectives on Teaching, Multilingualism and Interculturalism. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (1-19). ISBN 978-1-5275-4287-7.
• 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).
• CHIK, A. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2019). Social representations about multilingualism. In G. Barkzuhin (ed.), Qualitative research topics in Language teacher education. London: Routledge (149-154). ISBN 978-1138618145.
• COSTA WÄTZOLD, J. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2020). “How is the bilingualism of Portuguese heritage children perceived by their parents? – Results from an ethnographic case study of a non-formal learning setting in Germany”. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. DOI 10.1080/13670050.2020.1731415.
• 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.
• HELMCHEN, C. & MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2018). Professional development of future foreign language teachers during short-term exchanges. In On the Horizon, Vol 24, Issue 2. (special issue). ISSN: 1074-8121. DOI 10.1108/OTH-11-2017-0091.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2020). Intercomprehension in the mainstream language classroom at secondary school level: how online multilingual interaction fosters foreign language learning. In J. Duarte & C. Kirsch (eds.), Multilingual approaches for teaching and learning - From acknowledging to capitalising on multilingualism in European mainstream education. London: Routledge (94-113). ISBN: 978-0-367-18135-2.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2019). « L’authenticité plurilingue comme idéologie linguistique à l’université ». In L. Gajo; J.-M. Luscher ; I. Racine & F. Zay (eds.), Variation, plurilinguisme et évaluation en FLE. Bern: Peter Lang (241-252). ISBN 978-3-631-79643-6.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2019). Business as usual? (Re)conceptualizations and the multilingual turn in education. The case of Mother Tongue. In E. Vetter & U. Jessner (ed.), International Research on Multilingualism: Breaking with the Monolingual Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Nature Switzerland AG (27-41). ISBN 978-3-030-21379-4.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2018). “The multilingual turn in language education: facts and fallacies”. In Bonnet, A. & Siemund, P. (eds.) (2018), Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms. New York, Amsterdam: Benjamins (191-212). ISBN 9789027201010.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. (2018). “When Non-Romance Languages break the linguistic contract in Romance Languages chat rooms: Theoretical consequences for the studies on Intercomprehension”. In Buendgens-Kosten, J. & Elsner, D. (ed.), Multilingual Computer Assisted Language Learning. Bristol: Multilingual Matters (151-167). ISBN: 9781788921480.
• 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.
• 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. & 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. & 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. & SCHMIDT, A. (2019). „Social integration as portrayed in visual narratives by refugees in Germany”. In P. Kalaja & S. Melo-Pfeifer (ed.). Visualising Multilingual Lives More Than Words. Oxon: Multilingual Matters (53-72) (ISBN 9781788922593).
• 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
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & SCHRÖDER-SURA, A. (2018). Les tâches de médiation dans les manuels de Français Langue Étrangère en Allemagne. In Recherches en didactique des langues et des cultures, Les Cahiers de l’ACEDLE, 15-3. URL : https://journals.openedition.org/rdlc/pdf/3589.
• MELO-PFEIFER, S. & CHIK, A. (2020). “Multimodal linguistic biographies of prospective foreign language teachers in Germany: reconstructing beliefs about languages and multilingual language learning in initial teacher education”. International Journal of Multilingualism. DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2020.1753748.

• “In others’ shoes: pre-service teachers’ cross-comparison of multilingual and multicultural experiences in Hamburg and Sydney”, im Rahmen des "Trilateral Strategic Partnership MQ-FU-HAM" (with Alice Chik). Von 1.03.2020 bis 31.12.2020.
• “LoCALL: LOcal Linguistic Landscapes for global language education in the school context”, Erasmus Plus Projekt 2019-1-DE03-KA201-060024), von 1.9.2019 bis 31.8.2022 (unter der Koordination von Universität Hamburg); https://www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/einrichtungen/ew4/didaktik-romanische-sprachen/projekte/locall.html
• “VarLang - Variedades linguísticas e culturais no ensino de línguas estrangeiras”; Leiter: Prof. Mário Cruz, Escola Superior de Educação do Porto (Portugal), inEd - Centro de Investigação e Inovação em Educação, Von 1.11.2019 bis 31.10.2022. https://ined.ese.ipp.pt/pt/projetos/varlang-variedades-linguisticas-e-culturais-no-ensino-de-linguas-estrangeiras
• Desarrollo de las competencias para la educación multilingüe, Projekt http://www.ub.edu/plural/presentacion/, von Universidad de Barcelona (unter der Koordination von Juli Palou Sangra und Margarida Cambra Giné (Finanzierung: Ministerio de Economia y Competividad de España, Plan Nacional I+D+i 2008-2011); Rolle: externe Beratung.
• EVAL-IC – Evaluation des compétences en intercompréhension: réception et interactions plurilingues, Erasmus Plus - KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices / Strategic Partnerships for higher education. Von 1.09.2016 bis 1.09.2019 (unter der Koordination von Université de la Réunion, Frankreich);
• GALANET: Plateforme pour le développement de l'intercompréhension en Langues Romanes” (Sócrates/Língua - 90235-CP-1-2001-1-FR-LINGUA-L2), von 2001 bis 2004, unter der Koordination von Christian Degache (www.galanet.eu)
• GALAPRO (LLP), „Galapro: Formation de formateurs à l’intercompréhension en Langues Romanes”, von 2008 bis 2009, unter der Koordination von Maria Helena de Araújo e Sá (www.galapro.eu)
• „Imagens do (ensino) Português no Estrangeiro/ Image des Portugiesischen/ Portugiesischunterrichts im Ausland” (mit finanzieller Unterstützung des Instituto Camões) von 2010 bis 2013 (http://cepealemanha.wordpress.com/imagens-do-ensino-portugues-no-estrangeiro/);
• Koinos - European Portfolio of Plurilingual Literacy Practices, Erasmus Plus, KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices / Strategic Partnerships for higher education, von 01.09.2015 bis 1.09.2017. (unter der Koordination von Consejaría de Educación, Barcelona);
• Literatur und Interkulturelles Lernen im Französischunterricht, LI Projekt (mit Professor Dr. Martin Neumann), von 01.10.2015 bis 31.08.2016 (http://www.zlh-hamburg.de/lehrlabor-kooperationen-in-der-lehrerbildung-aktivitaeten-der-teilprojekte-in-den-jahren-2013-bis-2016/);
• MEMA - Migrant education monitoring and assessment, IP/B/CULT/IC/2015-163, Projekt von European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) (unter der Koordination von Miquel Àngel Essomba Gelabert, Universidad de Barcelona, Spanien); Rolle: Expert für Deutschland.
• MIRIADI: „Mutualisation et innovation pour un Réseau de l’Intercompréhension à Distance” (Programme Transversal, Activité- Clé 2 Langues-Réseaux, Lifelong Learning Programme, 531186- LLP-1-2012-1-FR-KA2-KA2NW), vom 01.12.2012 bis 30.11.2015, unter der Koordination von Sandra Garbarino, der Université Lumière Lyon 2 (Frankreich) (http://miriadi.net/elgg/miriadi/home);
• Représentations des enseignants plurilingues par les étudiants dans le domaine de la didactique des langues. Entre perception monolingue et plurilingue du plurilinguisme, von Patchareerat Yanaprasart (Université de Genève, Faculté des Lettres, Ecole de langue et de civilisation françaises) und Silvia Melo-Pfeifer (Universität Hamburg, Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaft, Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen) geleitet. Dauer: 6 Monate https://www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/einrichtungen/ew4/didaktik-romanische-sprachen/projekte/wahrnehmungmehrsprachigkeit.html
• SPIRAL- School-teacher Professionalisation: Intercultural Resources and Languages, Erasmus Plus, KA2 - Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices / Strategic Partnerships for higher education, von 01.09.2015 bis 01.09.2018 (unter der Koordination von CiEP, Paris);
• Vergangenheitsbewältigung: Französisch Jugendliteratur im Fremdsprachenunterricht, ProFaLe Projekt (mit Professor Dr. Martin Neumann). Von 01.10.2016 bis 31.08.2017

Link zu den Projekten:

• https://www.ew.uni-hamburg.de/einrichtungen/ew4/didaktik-romanische-sprachen/projekte.html