Overview

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

Current roles:

Senior Lecturer (Education & Scholarship) in Spanish

Coordinator for Spanish in the Foreign Language Centre

DELE Exams Coordinator and Chief Examiner

External Examiner at Sheffield Hallam University

Office hours: TBC

​Room 141, Queen's Building

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Research

Dr Tenreiro Prego's areas of interest are varied and include curriculum decolonisation, intercultural competence, assessment and feedback, blended learning and digital pedagogy.

Research collaborations

Selected Papers/Presentations: 

J.C. Tenreiro Prego, "The Self" and "The Other": Integrating Marginalised Voices from Latin America into Spanish Teaching Resources", delivered at the University of Iceland (Reykjavík, 2023).

J.C. Tenreiro Prego, “Confronting the Pandemic through Blended Learning: Using Genial.ly in Asynchronous Language Teaching”, delivered at the ‘22th AULC Annual Conference’ (University of Leeds, 2021).

Ibid., delivered at ‘EUROCALL 2021’ (Sorbonne Université, 2021).

J.C. Tenreiro Prego, “Spanish in the Workplace at Exeter: Enhancing Intercultural Competence and Employability”, delivered at the ‘19th AULC Annual Conference’ (Sheffield Hallam University, 2018).

J.C. Tenreiro Prego, “Introducing computer-based placement tests at Exeter: reflecting on experience”, delivered at 'Innovative and Reliable Approaches to Language Assessment and Test Design in Higher Education' (University of Exeter, 2017).

J.C. Tenreiro Prego, “Reshaping Computer-Based Placement Tests at Exeter: Reflecting on Experience”, delivered at ‘EUROCALL 2017’ (University of Southampton, 2017).

J.C. Tenreiro-Prego et al., “Why Study a Language”, at “Languages at University and Beyond” (Truro and Penwith College), July 2015.

J.C. Tenreiro Prego, “Understanding a Minority Language: The Sociolinguistic Reality in Galicia”, delivered at the University of Exeter, 2012.

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Teaching

Modules taught

• FLS2130 - Spanish Beginners Fast-Track
• FLS2230 - Spanish Intermediate One
• FLS2330 - Spanish Intermediate Two
• FLS2430 - Spanish Intermediate Fast-Track
• FLS3415 - Spanish Advanced One
• FLS3430 - Spanish Advanced One
• FLS3515 - Spanish Advanced Two
• FLS3530 - Spanish Advanced Two
• FLS3715 - Spanish Advanced Three
• FLS3730 - Spanish Advanced Three
• FLS3830 - Spanish in the Workplace
• MLS1001 - Spanish Language
• MLS1056 - Spanish Language for Beginners

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Biography

Dr José Carlos Tenreiro Prego received his BA and PGCE from the University of Santiago de Compostela, MA from the University of Kansas, and PhD from the University of Exeter, where he currently coordinates the Spanish modules in the Language Centre. He has ample experience in teaching Spanish as L2 in the UK, Spain, France and the United States. His areas of interest are varied and include intercultural competence, assessment and feedback, blended learning and digital pedagogy.

Dr Tenreiro Prego is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.  

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