'So do you hear me? And "how" do you hear me?' Perceptions of lecturers on students from Portuguese-speaking African countries in Portuguese higher education

The internationalisation of Portuguese higher education implies multicultural challenges arising from the Portuguese language variation. Nevertheless, the perceptions of lecturers about their students are rarely analysed, though influencing learning. This will be the focus of our article, using focus groups. Findings show that lecturers experience unexpected situations of incomprehension with students speaking varieties of Portuguese, while profiling differently students' sociolinguistic characteristics. Thirdly, participants differ on strategies applied to overcome difficulties encountered, such as pedagogical and monitoring. Our conclusions highlight the need to deconstruct lecturers' ideologies as listening subjects of Portuguese language varieties and its socialisation, designing solutions promoting their capacity-building. A internacionaliza & ccedil;& atilde;o do ensino superior portugu & ecirc;s implica desafios multiculturais decorrentes da varia & ccedil;& atilde;o l & iacute;ngua portuguesa. Contudo raramente s & atilde;o analisadas as perce & ccedil;& otilde;es dos docentes sobre os seus estudantes, embora influenciem a aprendizagem. Este ser & aacute; o foco do nosso artigo, utilizando grupos focais. Observamos que os professores vivenciam situa & ccedil;& otilde;es inesperadas de incompreens & atilde;o com os estudantes falantes de variedades do portugu & ecirc;s divergindo perfis sociolingu & iacute;sticos identificados, e aplicando estrat & eacute;gias diferenciadas na supera & ccedil;& atilde;o destas dificuldades, pedagogicamente ou na avalia & ccedil;& atilde;o. Conclu & iacute;mos a necessidade de desconstruir as ideologias dos docentes como sujeitos ouvintes das variedades da l & iacute;ngua portuguesa e da sua socializa & ccedil;& atilde;o, desenvolvendo solu & ccedil;& otilde;es com vista & agrave; sua capacita & ccedil;& atilde;o.