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Marni Manegre serves as a Lecturer (Professora Lectora) in the Department of English and German Studies at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain, a position she has held on a full-time basis since September 2019. Her academic qualifications include a Doctorate in Education and Technology specializing in Computer-Assisted Language Learning from URV (2020), a Master of Science in Linguistics from the University of Alberta (2001), and a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Linguistics and a minor in Psychology from the University of Alberta (1998). Before entering academia full-time, she worked in the advertising sector in Western Canada as a Senior Manager, Territory Manager, and Digital Solutions Consultant for organizations such as Yellow Media Inc., Kijiji Autos (eBay), ADP Dealer Services, and ReachLocal. In her current role, Manegre is co-chair of the EUROCALL Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) Special Interest Group, serves on the editorial board of the ReCALL Journal, and regularly reviews for CALL, linguistics, and education journals. She lectures undergraduate courses including Reading and Writing I & II, and has previously taught Business English, Intercultural Communications & Management, Research Methods, Strategies for Teaching English to Children, Analysis of English Texts II, and English Speaking and Listening I.
Manegre's research interests center on Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL), online language teaching, second language acquisition, child language acquisition, lexical morphology, intercultural competence in education, machine translation, chatbots and AI in language learning, ecolinguistics, neurolinguistics, virtual exchanges, and digital competence in education. Her key publications include "Fostering intercultural competence through an asynchronous virtual exchange in secondary-level foreign language classes" with L. Robinson (Journal of Virtual Exchange, 2025), "A Study of Preservice Teachers' Digital Competence Development: Exploring the role of direct instruction, integrated practice, and modeling" with L. Momdjian and M. Gutiérrez-Colón (Evaluation and Program Planning, 2025), "Foreign language learning through collaborative writing in knowledge building forums" with M. Gutiérrez-Colón (Interactive Learning Environments, 2020), "A telecollaborative study of university students in Spain and Sri Lanka using the Soqqle video app" with P. Udeshinee (2022), and "The influence of foreign language exposure in EFL classroom collaborative writing tasks" (The EuroCALL Review, 2021). With 293 citations on ResearchGate and 3,925 reads, her contributions have influenced advancements in technology-mediated language education.