Custodio Martins

I obtained a Major in English and German from the University of Lisbon, and a Postgraduate Diploma in the teaching of English and German. I started my professional career as a teacher of English and German at secondary schools in Portugal, period during which I finished my Practicum as a teacher of both English and German. Later, while travelling in Asia, I decided to stay for a longer period and took a job as a lecturer of English in a private college in Peninsular Malaysia, and was later transferred to Kuching, in Sarawak, East Malaysia. In Kuching, I was appointed Lecturer in Charge of English Department. One of my initial duties was to establish the department, hire teachers and design the programme syllabi and materials. After a very interesting and challeging experience in Kuching, I was then transferred by the management to Bangkok, to another branch of the same college (Stamford College). After Bangkok, I moved to Macau, where I started teaching Portuguese as a Foreign and as a Second Language. First at a private institution, later at the University of Macau, where I taught for 25 years. While at the University of Macau, I finished both my Masters degree, and my PhD. in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition, respectively. I am currently working the University of Saint Joseph in Macau, at the Department of Portuguese at the Faculty of Humanities. I have supervised several Masters theses, namely at the University of Macau. Currently I am also supervising some PhD students at the University of Saint Joseph.As a researcher, I have been involved in projects on second/foreign language acquisition. My other interests are on L2 language processing from a psycholingistic perspective. My main focus on L2 acquisition research has been morphology, but not exclusively. I am also interested in Individual Variables in L2 acquisition, from the Applied Linguistics perspective.