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’ latest publication is Understanding Second Language Acquisition (ISBN-13: 978-0340905593, with Hodder Arnold, distributed by Oxford University Press in the United States; or order at amazon.com). 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 sixteen 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, both 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, Korea, 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 co-recipient with John Norris of the TESOL Distinguished Research award and the MLJ/ACTFL Paul Pimsleur award.
	She 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. and Ph.D. programs at SLS-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; The Canadian Modern Language Review; The Journal of Second Language Writing; Language Learning & Technology; Language Teaching Research; The Modern Language Journal; and formerly of TESOL Quarterly. She also served as Member-at-Large for the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2005-2008) and chaired the Steering Committee of the newly formed AAAL Advocacy Action Group. She is the editor of the Language Learning Monograph Series. The first volume under her editorship, and the sixth in the Series, is Discursive Practice in Language Learning and Teaching by Richard Young (you can read the editor’s Foreword here).
	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 published a single-authored introduction to the field of SLA titled Understanding Second Language Acquisition (2009, Hodder Arnold) and has two co-edited volumes, one with John Norris on Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching (2006, Benjamins) and another with Heidi Byrnes on The Longitudinal Study of Advanced L2 Capacities (2008, Routledge). Lourdes is busy editing a six-volume anthology of SLA readings in the Critical Concepts in Linguistics Routledge series. Presentations in 2008: measurement of complexity, accuracy, and fluency, presented at AAAL with John Norris (ppt, 24 MB); contemporary challenges for SLA theories, presented at IGSE (ppt); individual differences in the Spanish classroom, presented at ASELE (ppt); a usage-based approach to overpassivization, presented at SLRF 2008 with Sang-Ki Lee and Munehiko Miyata (ppt). Lourdes’ presentations in 2009: · A Sociology of Replication and Replicability in Applied Linguistics. (ppt) · “Context” in L2 Writing Pedagogy and Research: Emergent and Dynamic. (ppt) · Paper to be presented at invitational workshop on “Linguistic Complexity in Interlanguage Varieties, L2 Varieties, and Contact Languages” organized by the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany, May 21-22. · Course to be taught on Error Correction in L2 Classrooms at the 2009 Summer Institute in Applied Linguistics at Penn State University, College Park, July 6-17. · Plenary address to be delivered at the 3^rd International Task-Based Language Teaching Conference. Lancaster, September 13-16. · Plenary address to be delivered at the 1^st joint ALANZ-ALAA Conference (Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand & Applied Linguistics Association of Australia), Auckland, 2-4 December.

Lourdes' CV

Craig Chaudron & Charlie Sato, In Memoriam

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