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

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

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

Wright J