Thais Mena
Thais Mena Orduña is a PhD student in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Lleida (UdL). She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in English Studies (Universitat de Lleida) and she specialised in the teaching of foreign languages, obtaining a Master’s degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (Màster Oficial en Formació del Professorat de Secundària i Batxillerat, Formació Professional i Ensenyament d’Idiomes, Universitat de Lleida) and a Master’s degree in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (Máster Oficial en Enseñanza del Español como Lengua Extranjera y otras Lenguas Modernas, Universidad de Sevilla). Being an associate lecturer at the University of Lleida from 2016 to 2020, she taught in the following degrees: English Studies, Education, Bilingual Education, Business Administration and Management, and Medicine. In November 2020, she was awarded a predoctoral scholarship by the University of Lleida and now she is member of the project The Global Competence of University Students: A Pilot Study in the Internationalisation of the Curriculum (GLOCIC) (REFERENCIA DEL PROYECTO/AEI/10.13039/501100011033).
Her research interests are plurilingualism, language gains, study abroad and higher education internationalisation. She attempts to shed some light on the impact of a university experience on students’ plurilingual and intercultural competences by examining plurilingual assessment, language gains in a plurilingual context, and students’ attitudes and beliefs.
2022/2023
Scientific English (4 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Medicine (Universitat de Lleida).
2021/2022
Scientific English (4 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Medicine (Universitat de Lleida).
2020/2021
Scientific English (4 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Medicine (Universitat de Lleida).
English for Business I (6 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management (Universitat de Lleida).
Special topics in English language and linguistics (4 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in English Studies and Applied Languages and Translation – Bachelor’s degree in English Studies (Universitat de Lleida).
2019/2020
Scientific English (6 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Medicine (Universitat de Lleida).
English for Business I (6 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management (Universitat de Lleida).
General English I (6 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in English Studies and Applied Languages and Translation – Bachelor’s degree in English Studies (Universitat de Lleida).
2018/2019
Scientific English (6 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Medicine (Universitat de Lleida).
English for Business I (6 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Management (Universitat de Lleida).
General English I (6 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in English Studies and Applied Languages and Translation – Bachelor’s degree in English Studies (Universitat de Lleida).
2016/2017
Developing oral skills in English (6 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in English Studies (Universitat de Lleida).
English for academic purposes (3 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in English Studies (Universitat de Lleida).
Bachelor’s Thesis (1,5 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Primary Education (Universitat de Lleida).
Language Learning and Teaching I (5,9 ECTS), Bachelor’s degree in Primary Education, dual and bilingual – Bachelor’s degree in Primary Education and Physical Activity and Sport – Bachelor’s degree in Preschool and Primary Education (Universitat de Lleida).