Victor Manteiga Montesdeoca

I’m an Assistant Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, where I teach courses in English Didactics. I am also a PhD student at the University of the Basque Country, and I do research in the fields of Multilingualism and Cognitive Linguistics. My thesis is supervised by Dr. Aintzane Doiz and Dr. David Lasagabaster within the program Language Acquisition in Multilingual Settings.

• Conceptual transfer in the expression of emotions. WIP. RaAM 2020. Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. June 2020.
• Elicitation of narratives for research on crosslinguistic influence and conceptual transfer. PhD seminar at University of Oslo, Norway. September 2018.
• Conceptual challenges in the production of L3 Spanish by L1 Norwegian + L2 English speakers: the case of motion verbs. NoSLiP 2018, 3rd Norwegian Graduate Student Conference in Linguistics and Philology. University of Oslo, Norway. 2018. Abstract.
• El uso de narraciones para estudiar la influencia interlingüística en la producción de aprendices noruegos de español como L3. ANPA VI, Oslo, Norway. 2017. PDF.
• Crosslinguistic Influence in the production of L3 Spanish by L1 Norwegian + L2 English speakers. PhD seminar at University of Oslo, Norway. August 2017.
• Conceptual Transfer in the Written Production of Spanish (L3) by Speakers of Norwegian (L1) + English (L2). A Cognitive Approach to the Study of Crosslinguistic Influence. PhD seminar at University of Oslo, Norway. March 2017.
• An Introduction to Multilingualism. Eidsvoll Videregående Skole. Eidsvoll, Norway. 2017
• Multilingualism in the Classroom. Setskog Oppvekstsenter, Aurskog-Høland, Norway. 2016.
• Language and Cognition. Eidsvoll Videregående Skole. Eidsvoll, Norway. 2015.
• Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Setskog Oppvekstsenter, Aurskog-Høland, Norway. 2014.
• Figure and Ground Distinctions in Language Use. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 2010.
• A Proposal for a Cognitive Semantics Study of the Literary Atmosphere. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. 2009.
• The Europass Language Passport. Colegio Arenas Sur, Las Palmas, Spain. 2008.

• Manteiga, V. (2019). El uso de narraciones para estudiar la influencia interlingüística en la producción de aprendices noruegos de español como L3. Nordic Journal of Modern Language Methodology, 7(2), 89–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.46364/njmlm.v7i2.665. Download PDF.
• Guerra, J., Nuez Placeres, G. de la, Martín Dueñas, A., Lema Quintana, M. P., & Manteiga, V. (2009). The Real Way We Think What They Think: New Cognitive Poetics and Linguistics in the English Literature Studies (ELS) in Spain. ES: Revista de Filología Inglesa, 85–103. PDF.

Research Interests

• Semantics
• Second and third language acquisition
• Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• Crosslinguistic influence
• Conceptual transfer
• Code-switching and Translanguaging
• Linguistic relativism
• Cognitive Linguistics and other functional approaches
• Usage-based approaches to language acquisition