José Luis Ortega Martín
José Luis Ortega Martín is a Professor at the University of Granada in the Department of Language and Literature Didactics. He has received a Doctorate Award for his doctoral thesis in Didactics of the Language (English) and also has been awarded for Teaching Excellence by the University of Granada as Coordinator of the Secondary Master of this university. He was the Director of the Secretariat of Teacher Training and Quality Support of the Vice-Rector for Quality of the University of Granada from 2011 to 2015. He was also Vice-Dean of International Relations in the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the University of Granada from 2004 to 2008. Currently, he is the Spanish Language Scientific Director at Common Ground Research Networks. Other achievements include: Founder and Director of Deep University, Academic Director of the PP Escolapios School for nine school years, Head of International Relations of the Master's Degree in Teacher Training at the University of Granada. He is a member of scientific committees of several congresses and international journals: Porta Linguarum, Comunicar, Profile. He has given conferences and worked with projects, talks, courses, training, etc. in the United States, Mexico, France, Japan, England, Northern Ireland, Colombia, Jamaica, Cuba, etc. He has written and participated in more than 50 publications that include books, book chapters, articles reviews, etc. about bilingualism, TEFL, teacher training, classroom organization, motivation, etc. He has directed 9 doctoral theses and about 100 final master's projects and is a principal researcher in a Project on Bilingualism for the British Council and the Ministry of Education.