Brenda García Ortega
Brenda García Ortega

Contact Information

4080 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-176
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

Fall 2026: Monday 3-3:50pm or by appointment
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Graduate Student

Research Interests

  • Bilingualism
  • Heritage Language
  • Language Acquisition (L1, L2, L3)
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Morphosyntax
  • Agreement
  • Code-switching
  • Syntax-semantics Interface
  • Pragmatics

Education

  • Ph.D. Hispanic Linguistics - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (In progress)
  • M.A. Hispanic Linguistics - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • M.A. Linguistics (Concentration in Language and Mind) - California State University, Fullerton
  • B.A. Linguistics and Psychology; Minor in Cognitive Science - University of California, Los Angeles

Courses Taught

  • SPAN 122 - Intensive Elementary Spanish
  • SPAN 130/201 - Intermediate Spanish
  • SPAN 141/203 - Intro to Spanish Grammar/Spanish Grammar through Communication