School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies
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Language Studies
SALIS Newsletter November 2007 (PDF 205K)
Meet our Language Studies Team
Research areas and activities in the Language Studies Section (LSS)
Members of the LSS are engaged in a wide-ranging number of research areas which are listed below. More information about individual research interests and involvement in research project can be found on members' web pages.
Research areas include:
- Foreign/Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Bilingualism
- Teaching Methodologies
- Textbook analysis
- Linguistics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Syllabus Design
- Language Planning and Policy
- Language and Identity
- Educational Technology/CALL
- Learner Autonomy
- Language for Specific Purposes (LSP)
- Transferable Skills
- Applied Psycholinguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Intercultural Communication
Staff Involvement in Research Projects:
National Projects:
- Transferable skills in Third-Level Modern Languages Curricula (DCU; WIT; TCD) ( www.skillsproject.tcd.ie )
- OILTE ( www.oilte.ie )
- European Language Portfolio
International Projects:
- Language On-Line Portfolio Project (LOLIPOP) ( http://lolipop-portfolio.eu )
- European Network for the Promotion of Language Learning Among All Undergraduates (ENLU) ( www.fu-berlin.de/enlu/ )
- Princip Research Group (Safer Internet Action Plan)
- European Social Fund/VEC
- Committee of the Regions (EU) ( www.euractiv.com/en/culture/ )
- Pan-European Japanese Materials Bank ( tash.jp/oshu/etp/ )
Staff Publications