Curriculum Vitae
Yolanda Xavier
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Yolanda Xavier
- Date of birth
- 1994/01/21
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Xavier, Yolanda
- Xavier, Y.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2219-BAA6-5B48
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6627-7676
Email addresses
- yolandaxavier@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
- yolandax@campus.ul.pt (Personal)
Websites
- https://clunl.fcsh.unl.pt/en/team/xavier-yolanda-doutoranda/ (Scholar)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yolanda-Xavier (Social media)
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/yolanda-xavier-240a64b4/ (Social media)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Other Humanities
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Linguistics
- Humanities - Languages and Literatures
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ukrainian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Russian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| German | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| Polish | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | ||
| Italian | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | |
| Belarusian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2021/09/20 - 2025
Ongoing
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Linguistics (Doktor (PhD))
Major in Psycholinguistics
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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2022/08/18 - 2022/08/23
Concluded
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TESOL certificate (Outros)
World TESOL Academy, United Kingdom
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95/100 |
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2019/09/08 - 2021/04/23
Concluded
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English Didactics (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade Aberta, Portugal "L2 acquisition and digital media world: the importance of modern media tools in ELT" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2012/09/15 - 2015/07/31
Concluded
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Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Bachelor)
Major in English Studies
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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2006/09/01 - 2010/05/31
Concluded
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Full Secondary School (Ensino secundário)
Rivne Regional Scientific Lyceum , Ukraine
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/01/18 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal |
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/07/22 - 2022/12/31 | Quality Analyst | Majorel Portugal, Portugal |
| 2022/07/18 - 2022/07/29 | Visiting student - Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics | Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands |
| 2017/05/01 - 2022/02/25 | Technical Translator | QVO Legis, Lda., Portugal |
| 2018/02/02 - 2021/08/01 | Freelance English Teacher | Freelancer, Portugal |
| 2018/10/01 - 2019/06/01 | English Teacher | Aprende Mais, Portugal |
| 2018/04/15 - 2018/07/01 | English Teacher | Scool Tutor, Portugal |
| 2017/10/12 - 2018/07/01 | English Teacher | Teens Academy, Portugal |
| 2018/01/24 - 2018/05/05 | English Teacher | Nota Êxito, Portugal |
| 2017/07/01 - 2017/12/31 | Teacher of Portuguese as a Foreign Language for Ukrainian students | Aprender Centro de Estudos, Portugal |
| 2017/01/01 - 2017/06/01 | English Teacher | Study and Smile Academy, Portugal |
| 2015/11/01 - 2016/11/23 | Freelance Teacher | Freelancer, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/01/01 - Current | Foreign accent, linguistic stereotyping, and their connection with social integration
2022.13977.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
| Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/11/16 | Nasal vowels and primary word stress production by adult L1 Ukrainian speakers of Portuguese as an L2 | Vienna Workshops on Portuguese Linguistics. Acquisition Across Varieties: New Perspectives from Portuguese
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2023/11/05 | Nasal vowels and primary word stress production by adult L1 Ukrainian speakers of Portuguese as an L2 | NLT L2 Phonology Research Forum
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/08/31 | Nasal vowels, primary word stress, and their role in foreign-accented speech of L1 Ukrainian speakers of Portuguese as an L2 | The 32nd Conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA32)
University of Birmingham (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
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| 2022/12/02 | Foreign accent, linguistic stereotyping and their connection with social integration | NLT L2 Phonology Research Forum
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/10/18 - Current | NLT (NOVA, Lancaster, Toronto) L2 Phonology Research Forum (2022/11/04)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/04/04 - 2024/04/04 | Science Communication Workshop with David Vuletich (EAB)
Workshop
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Science Communication Workshop
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2024/03/22 - 2024/03/22 | Introduction to Statistics with Profª Joana Teixeira
Seminar
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Seminário em Metodologias (Estatística)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2024/03/21 - 2024/03/21 | How to identify plagiarism
Other
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Sessão de formação Bibliotecas NOVA FCSH
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2023/12/14 - 2023/12/15 | Poster presentation: "Nasal vowels and primary word stress production by adult L1 Ukrainian speakers of Portuguese as an L2"
Workshop
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2023 Winter Retreat
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2023/07/03 - 2023/07/07 | Researching L2 speech perception and production in instructed SLA: tasks, measures, and cognitive individual differences (Professor
Joan Carles Mora)
Seminar
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Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2023
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2023/07/01 - 2023/07/01 | Attendee
Meeting
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XVII Fórum de Partilha Linguística - Jovens Investigadores do CLUNL
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2023/04/11 - 2023/04/11 | O Fluxo editorial no Open Journal Systems
Workshop
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2023/03/21 - 2023/03/21 | Depósito de Dados de Investigação no Zenodo
Workshop
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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| 2023/01/25 - 2023/03/13 | Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis (online course)
Workshop
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Open HPI
Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH, Germany
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| 2023/02 - 2023/02 | Linear Regression and Modeling
Other
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Online Course - Coursera
Duke University Department of Statistical Science, United States
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| 2023/02 - 2023/02 | Introduction to Probability and Data with R
Other
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Online Course - Coursera
Duke University Department of Statistical Science, United States
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| 2023/02 - 2023/02 | Inferential Statistics
Other
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Online Course - Coursera
Duke University - Coursera online course, United States
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| 2023/02 - 2023/02 | Data Analysis with R Specialization
Other
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Online Course - Coursera
Duke University - Coursera online course, United States
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| 2022/12/09 - 2022/12/09 | How to write a (really) good conference abstract (online)
Meeting
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Social webinar for Early Career Researchers
European Second Language Association (EuroSLA), United Kingdom
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| 2022/10/25 - 2022/10/26 | Introduction to Bayesian inference for the quantification of phonetic data (online)
Workshop
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Introduction to the Bayesian framework for linguists and speech scientists using R
Universität Konstanz, Germany
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| 2022/07/18 - 2022/07/29 | Linguistic Fieldwork: A critical approach. 5 ECTS obtained. Score: 8.3/10.
Seminar
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Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
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| 2022/07/18 - 2022/07/29 | Training in hands-on field methods.
2 ECTS
Seminar
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Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
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| 2022/07/18 - 2022/07/29 | Introduction to phonetics and phonology. 5 ECTS. Score: 7.5/10
Seminar
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Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
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| 2022/07/04 - 2022/07/08 | L2 speech learning: The effects of phonetic training. Methodology review of production/perception evaluation for phonetical
training. Research project on perception assessment of L1 Ukrainian adult learners of European Portuguese as an L2. 5 ECTS.
Score: 17/20
Seminar
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Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2022
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
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| 2022/07/04 - 2022/07/08 | Bilingual children¿s syntactic knowledge: Ways of assessing its multifaceted dimensions. Methodology review on syntax acquisition
in bilingual/monolingual children. 5 ECTS. Score: 19/20.
Seminar
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Lisbon Summer School in Linguistics 2022
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
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| 2022/07/01 - 2022/07/01 | Attendee
Meeting
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XVI Fórum de Partilha Linguística - Jovens Investigadores do CLUNL
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
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| 2022/04/21 - 2022/04/21 | Research with Infants: Tips and Tricks (online)
Workshop
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EMLAR XVIII
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
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| 2022/04/19 - 2022/04/19 | Praat (beginners) (online)
Workshop
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EMLAR XVIII
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
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| 2022/04/19 - 2022/04/19 | Ethics and Privacy (online)
Workshop
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EMLAR XVIII
Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands
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| 2021/11/12 - 2021/11/12 | Event participation (listener)
Conference
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Jornadas dos dicionários
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Linguística, Portugal
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| 2021/10/28 - 2021/10/29 | Attendee (online conference)
Congress
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37.º Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística (APL)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2015/07/02 - 2015/07/03 | Colaboration with the organization committee
Congress
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Colour and colour naming: crosslinguistic approaches
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2015/06/23 - 2015/06/27 | Volunteer
Conference
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Kings&Queens: Dynastic changes and Legitimacy
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2013/04/10 - 2013/04/12 | Collaboration with the organization commitee
Other
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UL Open Night 2013
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/03/19 - Current | International Phonetic Association | Member |
| 2022/02/08 - Current | Associação Portuguesa de Linguística | Member |
| 2022/09/05 - 2023/10/13 | Núcleo Jovens Investigadores do CLUNL (Junior Researchers of Linguistic Research Center of Nova University of Lisbon) |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/03/18 - 2023/03/01 | Community interpreting for Ukrainian refugees (Ukrainian/Russian - Portuguese) together with SoS Ucrânia Project (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Serviço Municipal de Proteção Civil) | Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2017/09/05 - 2017/12/31 | Subtitling (English for Ukrainian/Russian speech) for the "Stalking Chernobyl: exploration after apocalypse" movie. | Cultures of Resistance, United States |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/03/22 - 2023/03/22 | Research and Applications in Language Sciences | BA (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/04/24 - Current | Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB) (2754-0820) | Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain |
| 2023/04/03 - Current | LingUU | Utrecht University |
Distinctions
Award
| 2023 | Junior Researcher LAB Award
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism Journal, Netherlands
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Other distinction
| 2014 | Social Scholarship "U CAN"
ESG- Programa Escolhas, Portugal
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| 2014 | Social Merit Scholarship
Universidade de Lisboa - Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2013 | Social Merit Scholarship
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2013 | Sports Merit Scholarship
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2010 | II place diploma for an outstanding research work
Junior Academy of Sciences , Ukraine
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