Contents - Abbreviations - Index of Tables - Index of Images - Foreword - Introduction - Chapter 1. Contextualisation of the Study - 1.1. Motivation and justification of the object of study - 1.2. Learners - 1.3. Main and specific objectives - 1.

4. Users and potential stakeholders - 1.5. Contexts of Portuguese language teaching - 1.5.1. Macao Special Administrative Region - 1.5.

2. Mainland China - 1.6. Theoretical assumptions - 1.7. Methodology - 1.8. Informants'' characterization - Chapter 2.

Learner''s Profile - 2.1. Informants'' mother tongue - 2.2. Key factors for language learning - 2.2.1. Desire to learn - 2.

2.2. Memory for learning - 2.2.3. Importance of culture - 2.2.4.

Intercultural competence - 2.2.5. Importance of pronunciation - 2.3. Less attractive languages - 2.4. Features attributed to the Portuguese language - 2.

5. Learner''s attitudes towards Portuguese language speakers - 2.6. Motivation for learning the Portuguese language - 2.7. Learning progress - Chapter 3. Portuguese Proficiency - 3.1.

Need to improve the learner''s level - 3.2. Learning foreign languages in Macao and Mainland China - 3.3. Teacher''s role - 3.4. Chinese and Portuguese - 3.5.

Pronunciation and orality - 3.6. Grammatical competence - 3.7. Examples of learner''s errors - Chapter 4. The Twenty-First Century: The Dynamics of Mobility - 4.1. Comparative analysis of the data: Macao and Mainland China - : 4.

2. Importance of linguistic immersion - 4.3. Portuguese in the twenty-first century - Conclusions - Learner''s profile - Suggestions for future research - Appendix - Survey Data (global) - References -.