SALIS

Biographical Details:

Graduated as a translator from the 'Universität des Saarlandes', Saarbrücken, Germany; MPhil in Linguistics from Trinity College, Dublin; PhD from Dublin City Unversity

Research Interests:

Multicultural Education / Language Immersion Discourse Analysis, Textbook Analysis, Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Germany as a Multicultural Society. Second Language Acquisition; Foreign Language Pedagogy; Corpus Linguistics

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Dr Annette Simon. 2008. Levels of motivation and confidence among first-year university learners. Teanga, 23, , pp45-57.

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• Gallagher, F., Leahy, A. and Simon, A., Multilingual Learning: voices and choices, New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe (LINEE), 11-APR-10 - 15-APR-10, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• Gallagher, F., Leahy, A. and Simon, A., 'We'd always win charades hands down': Teachers' perspectives on immersion education, Language Learning - Language Teaching: Prospects for Education across Europe, 03-DEC-09 - 05-DEC-09, Vechta, Germany
• Gallagher, F., Leahy, A. and Simon, A., "It's kinda easy": children's perspectives on immersion education., Multilingualism, Regional and Minority Languages: Paradigms for Languages of the Wider World, 16-APR-09 - 17-APR-09, University of London, UK
• Leahy, Angela and Simon, Annette, A Tale of Five Learners in a Multicultural Ireland, AILA - Multilingualism: Challenges and Opportunities, 25-AUG-08 - 29-AUG-08, Essen, Germany