Montserrat Mir
Professor
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 204
Office Hours
Spring 2020 Tuesdays and Thursdays 10-11am
Office Phone
Email
- 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 214.001 Oral Communication In Spanish
LAN 475.001 World Language Teaching Methodologies
SPA 234.099 Advanced Oral Communication in Spanish
SPA 287.099 Independent Study In Spanish
SPA 215.099 Introduction To Spanish Linguistics
SPA 214.099 Oral Communication In Spanish
SPA 300.099 Research In Spanish
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, Authored
Qué me dices
Montserrat Mir, Angela Bailey de las Heras.
(2015), Pearson
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