Silvia Maria Melo Pfeifer

Prof. Silvia Maria Melo Pfeifer holds the Universitätsprofessor (W3) für Didaktik der romanischen Sprachen at the Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg, Germany. She also serves as a Research Fellow at CIDTFF, University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her work centers on multilingual education, heritage language pedagogy, intercomprehension, and linguistic landscapes, with extensive experience in international research collaborations.

• Key Projects: PEP (2023-2026), AGILE (2022-2025), BOLD (2022-2025), IDéAL (2022-2025), and CoMMiTTEd (2021-2023).
• Research Themes: Focus on plurilingual literacy, multilingual teacher training, digital language interaction, and critical approaches to heritage language education, analyzing how students negotiate identities in multilingual contexts.

Her publications include edited volumes on multilingual teacher education (Springer, 2023) and peer-reviewed chapters on intercomprehension. She advocates for pedagogies that integrate students' entire linguistic repertoires, challenging monolingual norms in educational systems.