Cláudia Ruas is a Portuguese and Portuguese as a Non-Native Language (PLNM) teacher and PLNM coordinator at the José Saramago School Group in Palmela. She is currently enrolled in the Master’s programme in Portuguese as a Global Language at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, having completed the first year of the programme, and is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at NOVA University Lisbon, where she also collaborates with the Linguistics Research Centre (CLUNL). Her professional and academic work in PLNM focuses on language learning and teaching in multilingual school contexts, with particular interest in A0–A2 learners, initial literacy, linguistic and curricular inclusion, and the adaptation of teaching materials to different proficiency levels. Her research in Linguistics focuses on text and discourse from a socio-discursive perspective, including textual reformulation and language in educational contexts.