Mireia Ortega Duran

Profesora Asociada

Knowledge area: Filologia Anglesa

Grup de Recerca en Adquisició de Llengües (GRAL)

Grup d’innovació docent en Adquisició i Ensenyament de l’anglès

Academic training

Filologia Anglesa . Universitat Rovira i Virgili . 2004 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Estudis lingüístics, literaris i culturals. Línia de recerca: Lingüística Aplicada . Universitat de Barcelona . 2016 . (Ph.D.)

Màster en Ciències del Llenguatge i Lingüística Aplicada . Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada (IULA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 2006 . (Official Master)

Diploma d'Estudis Avançats (DEA) . Universitat de Barcelona . 2009 . (Specialized Training)

Acreditació Lector . AQU Catalunya (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya) . 03/2019 . (Specialized Training)

Teaching imparted

Treball de Grau (Bachelor's degree) - Estudios Ingleses - Universidad de Barcelona.

Fonètica i Fonologia Angleses I (Bachelor's degree) - Estudios Ingleses - Universidad de Barcelona.

Producció Textual en Llengua Anglesa (Bachelor's degree) - Estudios Ingleses - Universidad de Barcelona.

Lines of Activity (Teaching and Research)

Phonetics and phonology

Applied linguistics

L2 Pragmatics

Phonetics and phonology

Second language acquisition

Individual Learner Differences

L2 Pragmatics

Pronunciation teaching

Relevant publications

Mora, J.C.; Ortega, M.; Mora-Plaza, I.; Aliaga-García, C. (2022). Training the pronunciation of L2 vowels under different conditions: the use of non-lexical materials and masking noise. Phonetica, 79(1), pp. 1 - 43 . Publicació Online (https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2022-2018) . ISSN: 0031-8388

Barón, J.; Ortega, M. (2018). Investigating age differences in e-mail pragmatic performance. System . ISSN: 0346-251X

Ortega, M.; Mora-Plaza, I.; Mora, J. C. (2021). Differential effects of lexical and non-lexical high-variability phonetic training on the production of L2 vowels . In Kirkova-Naskova, A., Henderson, A., & Fouz-González, J. (eds.) English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based Insights. . Volume. 19 . (pp. 328 - 355) . John Benjamins Publishing Company . ISBN: 9780367900847 . https://benjamins.com/catalog/aals.19

Mora-Plaza, I.; Ortega, M.; Mora, J. C. (2022). High-Variability Phonetic Training under Different Conditions: Individual Differences in Auditory Attention Control . In Sardegna, V.G., Jarosz, A. (eds) Theoretical and Practical Developments in English Speech Assessment, Research, and Training. . (pp. 241 - 260) . Springer . ISBN: 978-3-030-98218-8 . https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-98218-8

Conferences and Participations in Congresses

Aliaga-Garcia, C.; Ortega, M.; Mora, J. C. (2021). Lexical status effects and individual trajectories in L2 vowel learning. (Presentation of communication) . 30th Annual Conference of the European Second Language Association EuroSLA 30 . Barcelona, Spain . SPAIN

Fullana, N.; Mora-Plaza, I.; Frank, J.; Adrian, M.; Sosa-López, G.; Galimberti, V.; Aliaga-García, C.; Ortega, M.; Mora, J. C. (2022). Cognitive complexity effects on L2 phonetic accuracy in pronunciation-unfocused tasks. (Presentation of communication) . 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech - New Sounds 2022 . Barcelona . SPAIN

Ortega, M.; Mora, J. C.; Mora-Plaza, I. (2019). The role of visual monitoring in training L2 vowels. (Presentation of communication) . 6th International Conference on English Pronunciation: Issues and Practices (EPIP 6) . Skopje . NORTH MACEDONIA

Mora-Plaza, I; Ortega, M.; Mora, J. C. (2019). Training an L2 vowel contrast under different high-variability training conditions: Individual differences in auditory attention control. (Presentation of communication) . 13th International Conference on Native and Non-native Accents of English ACCENTS 2019 . Łódź . POLAND

Ortega, M.; Mora-Plaza, I.; Mora, J.C. (2021). Rating experience effects on L2 speech self-assessment: A comaprison with native speaker evaluation. (Presentation of communication) . 3rd International Symposium on Applied Phonetics ISAPh 2021 . Tarragona, Spain . SPAIN