Paloma Morcillo Ortega

Paloma Morcillo joined UEA as a Spanish Tutor in 2024. She has taught Spanish in a wide range of educational contexts, including universities, language centres, and primary and secondary schools in Spain, the UK, and the United States.

Before joining UEA, she worked at institutions such as the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in Donostia-San Sebastián (Spain) and Susquehanna University (Pennsylvania, USA) as a Fulbright Scholar.

Her academic interests lie in cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, and bilingualism, areas that have grown naturally from her diverse teaching experience in multilingual and multicultural environments.

Working with international researchers, adult learners, and students of all ages has sparked her curiosity about how the brain processes language, how bilingual individuals navigate communication, and how language learning can be supported through evidence-based, cognitive approaches. This has led her to explore the intersection between language, mind, and learning in both practical and theoretical contexts.

- Year Abroad Coordinator (Latin America and Spain)

- Academic Advisor

- Applied Linguistics

- Second Language Teaching

- Second Language Acquistion

- Spanish as a Foreign Language Teaching and Learning

- Bilingualism and Multilingualism

- Language Technologies

2013 - B.A. in English Studies, University of Murcia (Spain).

2014 - Master’s Degree in Teacher Training (Foreign Language Teaching), University of Murcia (Spain).

2016 - Master’s Degree in Spanish As a Foreign Language, University of Alcalá (Spain).

2024 - Master's Degree in Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language (BCBL) and University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) (Spain).

2025 - Postgraduate Degree in Spanish and Language Technologies, University of Cantabria and CIESE-Fundación Comillas (Spain).