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This PhD thesis seeks to investigate foreign language curriculum planning, design and development in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The languages of focus are English and Spanish. The course curriculum documents are taken from the First Cycle programmes in Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC). Through a mixed methods approach and purposive sampling, the English and Spanish curriculum documents (75) of four Portuguese state universities will be subject to content analysis to see how closely they are aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) (Council of Europe, 2001) and to the generally accepted principles of curriculum design and development …