Maria Isabel Orega

University of the Algarve
E-mail: miorega@ualg.pt

Maria Isabel Mendonça Orega, BA in English and German Languages and Literatures by the University of Lisbon, MA in Teaching English as a Foreign Language by the University of Reading, UK, and PhD in Didactics and Education, speciality – Didactics of English by the University of Aveiro.

Coordinating Professor in the School of Education and Communication of the University of Algarve, department of Teacher Education. English Language Teacher and Teacher Trainer involved in the initial and postgraduaction degrees in the area of English and Portuguese Language Teachers Education since 1986.

Director of the Master’s degree in Teaching English in Primary Education. Participated in the Comenius project ECNTLT and in the project PETALL –  the Pan-European Task Activities for Language Learning that was coordinated by the University of Algarve. Both projects apply ICT to Language Learning. Member of the research centre CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) of NOVA University of Lisbon.

Areas of interest: ICT and Language Learning, Teaching English to Young Learners, Reading Comprehension, Learning Styles.