Máire Ní Láimhín is an Assistant Professor in the School of Language, Literacy and Early Childhood Education, Dublin City University. She is a former primary teacher, having taught in both English-medium and Irish-medium schools. Máire's areas of research interest include second language teaching and learning, teacher pedagogical knowledge, teacher language knowledge, language teacher education, curriculum design and implementation, educational policy design and implementation, initial teacher education and teacher professional learning and development. Máire’s current doctoral research focuses on professional learning to teach for the transfer of skills across languages.
Published Report
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | French, G., Mc Kenna, G., Giblin, F., Concannon-Gibney, T., Farrell, T., Gillic, C., Halligan, C., Lake, G., Ní Dhiorbháin, A., Ní Láimhín, M., & O’ Neill S. (2022) Literature Review to Support the Updating of Aistear, the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework. National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, . [Link] | |
| 2022 | Concannon-Gibney, T., de Brún, J., Ní Dhiorbháin, A., Ní Láimhín, M., & Ó Duibhir, P. (2022) Pedagogical strategies, approaches and methodologies to support literacy and digital literacy development for Gaeilge and EAL. Department of Education (Ireland), . [Link] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7881298 |
Research Interests
Areas of research interest include second language teaching and learning, teacher pedagogical knowledge, teacher language knowledge, language teacher education, curriculum design and implementation, educational policy design and implementation, initial teacher education and teacher professional learning and development.
Research Projects
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Teaching Interests
Máire works on a wide range of pedagogical and placement modules on the Bachelor of Education and the Postgraduate of Education programmes at DCU. This involves teaching and facilitation; content creation, development and review; assessment design, moderation and marking; tuition, supervision and coordination.
Bachelor of Education (Level 8)
BEd1: ED1020 (Teagasc na Gaeilge); ED1024 (Teacher as a Reflective Practitioner)
BEd2: ED2027 (Teagasc na Gaeilge); ED2033 (Reflection and Enquiry); ED2900 (Professional Placement 2)
BEd3: ED3056 (Teagasc na Gaeilge); ED3902 (Professional Placement 3); ED3903 (Professional Placement 4); ED3904 (Professional Placement 5); EC330 (An tSochtheangeolaíocht)
BEd4: ED4015 (Research Project); ED4054 (Teagasc na Gaeilge); ED4057 (An Curaclam Comhtháite: Language and Literacy); ED4901 (Professional Placement 6); ED4907 (Professional Placement 7); EC424 (Ceannaireacht don Ghaeilge i Scoileanna T1)
Postgraduate Master of Education (Primary Teaching) (Level 9)
PMEP1: ED8041 (Professional Placement 1); ED9046 (Teagasc na Gaeilge); ED9047 (Professional Placement 2 & Reflection)
PMEP2: ED8077 (Professional Placement 4); ED8078 (Professional Placement 5)