Laura Acosta Ortega’s research interests  are interactional competence, oral interaction, foreign language teaching and learning. Currently she is studying a PhD, with a research about turn-taking Spanish as a foreign language, supervised by Dr. Carmen López Ferrero and Dr. Maria Dolors Cañada.

Conference papers

  • “A comparison of interactional resources in three task types: turn-taking in Spanish (2L/FL) classroom talk”. Conference Conversation as a tool for professional practice - University College of Southeast Norway (06/04/2018)
  • “Turn-taking in classroom talk: an analysis of turn-taking initiators used by learners of Spanish as a foreign language”. Language Learning and Teaching Conference: Developing Speaking Skills – University of Leeds (15/09/2017)
  • “Turn-taking in classroom talk: an analysis of the interactions of learners of Spanish as a foreign language”. EuroSLA 27 – Doctoral Workshop – University of Reading (30/08 – 02/09/2017)
  • “La competencia interaccional en estudiantes de B2: análisis de reparaciones en ELE”. XXI Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de jóvenes lingüistas – Universidade de Vigo (19 – 21/10/2016)
  • “La competencia interactiva en estudiantes de B2: análisis de la gestión de turnos de habla en ELE”. XXVII Congreso Internacional ASELE (Asociación para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera) – Universidad de la Rioja (7 – 10/09/2016)
  • “Estrategias de aprendizaje de la interacción oral: una comparación de la influencia de la cultura de origen”. XVIII Jornades Interuniversitàries de Recerca en Didàctica de la Llengua i la Literatura (04/2014)

 

Seminars and courses

  • Interaction Analysis and Conversation Analysis in kindergarten, school and higher education. University College of Southeast Norway (April 2018).
  • “Retuits i piulades. A la caça de paraules noves”. Dissabtes de llengües (event organized by the Faculty of Translation and Language Studies),  Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). 10 February and 10 March 2018.

 

Participation in research projects

  • Evaluation of the discursive skills of adult multilingual learners: Detection of training requirements and guidelines for self-learning (ECODAL). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINEICO), the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). IP: Carmen López Ferrero. Reference: EDU2016-75874-P (AEI/FEDER, UE)
  • Member of the research group Gr@ael (Grup de Recerca en Aprenentatge i Ensenyament de Llengües – Research Group in Language Teaching and Learning). Research group supported by the Catalan Goverment.
  • IES2.0: Digital literacy practices. Materials, classroom activities and online language resources. Plan Nacional de Investigación Científica, Desarrollo e Innovación Tecnológica 2011, del Mineco (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) del gobierno español (EDU2011-28381; 2012-2014).

Grants

  • PhD Grant Universtat Pompeu Fabra. Faculty of Translation and Language Studies. October 2015 – currently.