Academic biography

Fiona Gallagher is an assistant professor in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies (SALIS) at Dublin City University. Before this, she worked as a teacher and CELTA teacher educator in Sudan, Italy, Spain, Ireland, the US, Australia and Portugal.  Her research interests lie primarily in the fields of second language acquisition, TESOL and bi/multilingual education with particular reference to: L1 use in language learning and teaching; translanguaging and plurilingual pedagogies; and teaching and learning in the linguistically and culturally diverse primary and secondary school classroom. 

She has published widely in her field, both as the author/co-author of various EFL textbooks and teacher guides and in high-ranking peer reviewed journals and edited volumes.  Among her most recent publications are:

White, I., Gallagher, F. & Tiernan, P. (2026) ‘Now I understand what being creative looks like’: Preservice-teachers’ experiences of a module on creativity in education, Thinking Skills and Creativity, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2025.102113