Zita Viera Mendes is a doctoral candidate in the Didactics of the English Language at Nova University in Lisbon, Portugal. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Ms. Mendes completed her graduate studies in the United States at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, where she completed two master's degree programs, one in TESOL: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and the other in English Language Teaching. In 2008, before studying in the US, Zita Vieira Mendes concluded her bachelor’s degree at the University of Cabo Verde - UNICV. Ms. Mendes’s professional career is centered on her work as a university professor at her Alma Mater, UNICV, where she has taught for nine years, and at the private language education institution English Language Learners Cabo Verde - ELL CV, founded in 2015. In her work at UNICV, Ms. Mendes is the department of English Studies coordinator and a full-time tenured professor of the English Language. At ELL CV, Zita Mendes focuses on developing a novel project-based learning English Language curriculum for instruction to students of all ages - from pre-kindergarten children to business executives pursuing professional development and lifelong learning. Her other responsibilities at ELL CV include handling student admissions and administration and teacher coordination, in addition to teaching classes herself.