Annual Report 2001 - School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies

annual report 2001

school of applied language and intercultural studies

External Activities

Appointments / Memberships: External Bodies


Bruen J
  • 2000 to date: Committee Member of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
  • June 2001 to date: Executive Treasurer of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics
  • 1999 to 2000: D.C.U. Representative on the "Thematic Network Project"
Carty G
  • External Assessor, Spanish at Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambridge. The original period of January 1998 to December 2001 having been completed, the appointment was extended to December 2002
  • Member, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
Coulson T
  • Member, Institute of Germanic Studies (London)
  • Member, Association of University Teachers of German in the U.K. & Ireland
  • Member, Association of Intercultural German Studies (Salzburg) Internationaler Germanistenverband
  • Member, British Association for Comparative Literature
Duffy B
  • Member, The Beckett Circle (association of international Samuel Beckett scholars)
  • Member, Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande
Graham R
  • Vice-president, National Association of Teachers of Spanish
  • Member, Irish European Year of Languages sub-committee
  • Representative for DCU for the Salamanca European Year of Languages Project
  • Nominated official interpreter for the Spanish delegation of the Special Olympics to be held in Ireland in 2003
Kelly N
  • External Examiner, Tallaght Institute of Technology
  • External Examiner, Sheffield University
  • External Assessor for the Government of Ireland Scholarships (Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
  • Committee member and UK/Ireland representative on the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Teaching Materials Bank, sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Education
  • Examiner, Japanese GCSE in Northern Ireland
  • Member, Japanese Language Teachers of Ireland

Le Juez B

  • Member, Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones (CIEF)
  • Member, Women in French (WIF)
  • Member, Association des Etudes Françaises et Francophones d'Irlande (President 1998-2000)
  • Chief editor of The Irish Journal of French Studies
  • External examiner, MA in 19th-century French Literature in the Department of French of the National University of Ireland, Dublin (UCD)
O'Byrne P
  • Member, Women in Spanish, Portuguese Studies
  • External examiner, M.A in Spanish literature, June 2001
O'Connell E
  • Member, Executive of ITÉ (The Linguistics Institute of Ireland)
  • Founder member, ITIA (Irish Translators' and Interpreters' Association)
  • Founder member, ESIST, the European Association for Studies in Screen Translation
  • External examiner, M.Sc. in Translation Studies theses at UMIST, University of Manchester, UK
Pechenart J
  • Member, Executive Committee of IRAAL (Irish Association for Applied Linguistics)
  • Member, Executive Committee and acting President of AFA (Applied French Association)
Phelan M
  • Member, Instituto Cervantes
  • Member, Irish Translators' Association
Richardson B
  • Member, Irish Translators and Interpreters Association
  • Member, Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
  • Member, Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Member, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
  • External examiner, BA in Applied Languages programme, Waterford Institute of Technology
  • External examiner, Spanish in Athlone Institute of Technology
  • External examiner, PhD in the Psychology of Language, University of Granada
  • DCU representative on the European Thematic Network Project in Languages - New Learning Environments
  • DCU representative in a combined University consortium for the European Year of Languages
Wilson S
  • Founder Member, Japanese Language Teachers of Ireland (2000)
Wright J
  • Treasurer, Irish Association for French and Francophone Studies (ADEFFI)
  • Member, George Sand Association
  • Member, Les amis de George Sand
  • Member, Society of Dix-Neuvièmistes
  • Member, Modern Language Association of America