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Montserrat Mir

Professor
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 244
Office Hours
Spring 2020 Tuesdays and Thursdays 10-11am
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Selected Research

Biography

Born in Barcelona. Attended the University of Barcelona and majored in English Philology. . Completed my MA in Teaching of English as a Second Language and a PhD in Education: Second Language Teaching and Learning in 1994 from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Employed by Illinois State University since 1997.

Current Courses

SPA 243.001 Cultura Espanola

SPA 214.001 Oral Communication In Spanish

Teaching Interests & Areas

Spanish language and linguistics

Research Interests & Areas

Teacher Education, Spanish oral discourse, Pragmatics

Ph D Education

University of Illinois
Urbana

MA TESOL

University of Illinois
Urbana

BA English Philology

Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

International Travel Grant

College of Arts and Sciences, ISU
2018

Research Priorities Initiative

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
2016

Travel grant

Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), Illinois State University
2016

Travel grant

Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), Illinois State Universit
2012

Travel grant

Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), Illinois State Universit
2010

Extended University

Illinois State University
2009

Research grant

Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), Illinois State Universit
2009

Who's Who Among America's Teachers

2009

Travel grant

FEIC, Illinois State University
2008

Who's Who Among America's Teachers

2008

Extended University

Illinois State University
2007

Travel Grant

College of Arts and Sciences, ISU
2007

Teaching resources grant

Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), Illinois State Universit
2006

Who's Who Among America's Teachers

2004

Travel Grant

Center for Advancement of Teaching, Illinois State University
2001

Research grant

College of Arts and Sciences, ISU
1998

Travel grant

College of Arts and Sciences, ISU
1998

Travel grant

Center for Advancement of Teaching, Illinois State University
1997

Grants and Contracts

CTLT Travel Grant
Montserrat Mir
CTLT. - 2012

Book Review

Taboada, M, Dobal Suarez, S., and Gonzalez Alvarez, E. (eds.) (2013). Contrastive Discourse Analysis: Functional and Corpus Perspectives. Bristol: Equinox. ISBN # 978-1-908049-75-9, xi-356 pp
Montserrat Mir
Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication (MULTI)

Book, Chapter

Learning about L2 Spanish requests abroad through classroom and ethnography-based pragmatics instruction
Montserrat Mir
(2021), 28-57, New Directions in Second LanguagePragmatics, Mouton de Gruyter.
Teaching Practices in learning Spanish L2 Pragmatics: What research says, what textbooks offer, what teachers must do”
Montserrat Mir
(2018), 33-52, L2 Spanish Pragmatics: From Research to Teaching, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
La lectura como base para la comunicación oral
Montserrat Mir
(2011), 1155-1166, Del texto a la lengua: La aplicación de los textos a la enseñanza-aprendizaje del español L2-LE, Proceedings from XIX International Convention ASELE (Asociación para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera).

Journal Article

The use of humor in Spanish and English compliment responses: A cross-cultural analysis
Montserrat Mir & Josep M Cots
Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 32 (3), 393-416, (2019)
Beyond Saying Thanks: Compliment responses in American English and Peninsular Spanish”
Montserrat Mir & Joseph M Cots
Languages in Contrast, 17 (1), 128-150, (2017)
Joining forces in constructing meaning in Spanish L2 conversations
Montserrat Mir
Revista Electrónica de Lingüística Aplicada, 12, 37-44, (2013)
Negotiation of meaning in Spanish L2 Task-Focused Conversations
Montserrat Mir
Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching., 4 (1), 77-95, (2013)
Teaching and learning about Spanish L2 compliments in short-term study abroad
Montserrat Mir
Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education, 5 (2), 230-257

Presentations

An Approach to Board of Education Content Area Test Preparation for Teacher Licensure
Francesc Borrull, Montserrat Mir
ACTFL Convention and World Language Expo, Chicago, IL, November 18, 2023
Beyond grammar and vocabulary: Learning about conversation
Montserrat Mir, Angela Bailey de las Heras
Speaking about World Languages Event., Online, November, 2014
"Well….I’m not that good” Responding to a compliment in Spanish and English L1 and L2.
Montserrat Mir, Josep Cots
19th International Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning., Online, April, 2014
Hablantes de herencia en los Estados Unidos: Quiénes son, qué quieren, qué reciben
Montserrat Mir
XXI International Convention ASELE (Asociación para la enseñanza del español como lengua extranjera)., Spain, , 2012
Taking online research tasks to the conversational level
Montserrat Mir
Language Symposium, Chicago, March, 2012
Teacher language proficiency and communicative language teaching
Montserrat Mir, Rachel Louise Shively
ISU Teaching Learning Symposium, Normal, IL, January, 2011