Lourdes Ortega Associate Professor Department of Second Language Studies University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa 1890 East-West Rd., Moore Hall 585 Honolulu, HI 96822 Phone: (808) 956-2707 Fax: (808) 956-2802 lortega@hawaii.edu
	Lourdes Ortega joined the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) in 2004. She was born in Spain and has studied, lived, and worked in Spain, Germany, Greece, and (for the past fifteen years) in the United States. She was a teacher of Spanish and English in Greece, where she lived for seven years, and she has also taught both languages in the US (in Hawai‘i and Georgia). Lourdes holds a five-year degree in Spanish Philology from the University of Cádiz (in southern Spain), and an M.A. in English as a Second Language and a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition from UHM. Between 1999 and 2004, before returning to Hawai‘i, she taught SLA and applied linguistics at Georgetown University, Georgia State University, and Northern Arizona University. She has given talks and lectured in Brazil, Canada, China, Greece, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. She was a Pre-Doctoral Mellon Fellow in 1999 and a National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow in 2003. In 2001 she was also co-recipient with John Norris of the TESOL Distinguished Research award and the MLJ/ACTFL Paul Pimsleur award.
	Lourdes specializes in second language acquisition and has long-standing interests in second language writing, foreign language education, and research methods in applied linguistics. She teaches graduate courses in these areas in the M.A. in Second Language Studies and Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition programs at UHM. Courses she teaches regularly include Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Writing, Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis, CHILDES and Learner Language, and Error Correction. Lourdes is a member of the editorial boards of Applied Linguistics; ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics; Language Learning & Technology; Language Teaching; Language Teaching Research; The Modern Language Journal; and formerly of TESOL Quarterly. She just completed a three-year term as Member-at-Large for the American Association for Applied Linguistics and chair of the Steering Committee of the newly formed AAAL Advocacy Action Group.
	Her work has appeared in edited books and in various refereed journals, including Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (2005), Applied Linguistics (2003), Language Learning (2000, 2001), Language Learning & Technology (1997), Language Teaching Research (2008), The Modern Language Journal (1998, 2005), Studies in Second Language Acquisition (1999), and TESOL Quarterly (2007). She has two co-edited volumes with John Norris on Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching (2006, Benjamins) and with Heidi Byrnes on The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities (2008, Routledge). Currently, she is busy finishing a forthcoming graduate-level textbook titled Understanding SLA (with Arnold) and editing a six-volume anthology of SLA research (in the Critical Concepts in Linguistics Routledge series). She is also the new editor of the Language Learning Monograph Series and is currently working on volume 58 for 2008. · Presentations in 2007: ethical issues in the study of computer-mediated L2 interaction (ppt); the role of social context in task-based language learning and teaching (ppt); knowledge and multicompetence as two contemporary challenges for SLA (ppt); and locating purposes and needs for writing in a foreign language (ppt) · Presentations in 2008: measurement of complexity, accuracy, and fluency, presented at AAAL 2008 with John Norris (ppt, 24 MB)

Lourdes' CV

Craig Chaudron & Charlie Sato, In Memoriam

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