Fiona Farr
@fionafarr.bsky.social
Prof of Applied Linguistics and TESOL, University of Limerick.
Amazing opportunities for scholarships on our new ERASMUS Mundus MA programme in language teacher education. Applications now being accepted.
@calsul.bsky.social · 10mo ago🌍 Interested in language education? Apply now for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master TELME — study in multiple countries, gain intercultural experience, and receive an EU-funded scholarship. 👉 Apply now for Sept 2026: telme.hypotheses.org/application
TESOL post just advertised at UL. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Delighted to share this corpus with fellow researchers. Enjoy! And many thanks to Anne O’Keeffe and others who have worked on developing it over the years. @calsul.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social
Sketch Engine@sketchengine.eu · 12mo agoThe Limerick Corpus of spoken Irish English (LCIE) is now in Sketch Engine. Many thanks to Prof. @fionafarr.bsky.social , @unioflimerick.bsky.social, and Prof. Anne O’Keeffe, @micireland.bsky.social & UL, for permission to include it. www.sketchengine.eu/limerick-cor...
"Trump’s approach to trade, shaped by his hubris, poor grasp of policy tools & distrustful nature, has left trade partners wary & US industries in turmoil" UL's Dr Scott Fitzsimmons analyses the aspects of Trump's personality that have led to tariff threats & trade wars www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
UL researcher, Dr Sarah Schaefer, has been awarded more than €600,000 through the Research Ireland Pathway Programme to investigate how media outlets can develop new ways to report issues of climate change to the public. Read on: www.ul.ie/research/new... #StudyAtUL #StayCurious
New article out in Classroom Discourse!: "Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing" (by Maryam Khosronejad, Mary Ryan & Lauren Alexandra Weber). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Forms of becoming: elementary students’ self-positioning in writing
This paper investigates 15 elementary aged children’s self-positioning in writing. To this purpose, we examine how children perceive and represent themselves through their engagement with writing r...
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Fantastic achievement, Sarah! Well done! And such important work for the future of our planet!
@calsul.bsky.social · last yr.Huge congratulations to CALS member, Dr Sarah Schaefer, on her prestigious Research Ireland Pathway award! The project focuses on developing new approaches to communicating climate change. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... @unioflimerick.bsky.social
UL-led European alliance ‘to build a more connected and inclusive future through education’ Hear from Acting UL President Professor Shane Kilcommins, speaking at the launch of the EMERGE European University Alliance www.ul.ie/news/ul-led-... #StudyatUL
Delighted to announce that the Limerick Corpus of Irish English is now available on Sketch Engine!
Speaking about plurilingualism at the EMERGE University Alliance launch. @unioflimerick.bsky.social @calsul.bsky.social
Delighted to be at the launch of the EMERGE project and alliance, with a strong focus on linguistic diversity.
Our article (w/ Teppo Jakonen & Heidi Jauni ) on joint attention in #hybrid L2 #classroom group work has now been assigned to an issue in Applied Linguistics: academic.oup.com/applij/artic...
Achieving Joint Attention and Understanding of Task Responsibilities in Synchronous Hybrid L2 Classroom Group Work
Abstract. This article addresses the need to better understand interactional asymmetries, challenges, and solutions in implementing synchronous hybrid lang
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Annual CALS research day underway with Dr Laura Keyes from the Centre for Implementation Research @unioflimerick.bsky.social
Our very own CALS colleagues, Dr Brona Murphy and Dr Elaine Riordan presenting their research on doctoral intelligences.
PhD student Nadia Youcefi presenting her research on EAP at the CALS Research Day.
It has been eye opening for me to listen to the perspectives of student-teachers on their use of an AI tool for #reflective #practice: Partnering with #AI in #teacher #education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on #classroom #interaction: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Partnering with AI in teacher education? Using an automatic question detection tool to reflect on classroom interaction
In this paper, I investigate a group of student-teachers’ insights into an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered automatic question-detection tool designed for reflective practice: Question Bot (QBo...
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New article out! Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction (by David Shimamoto, Kobe University, Japan) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Repairing problems of acceptability in pre-task interaction
In task-based language teaching methodology, one way to familiarise learners with the upcoming task is through question-and-answer sequences that target task-relevant topics. In such instances, lea...
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Delighted to be at our first EMERGE project meeting in Paris! Lots of energy in the room. @calsul.bsky.social @ul-gps.bsky.social
Delighted to be presenting a keynote talk at the joint NAES and EFACIS conference in Turku, Finland next week. Now, back to writing it!
🎤 Announcing our next #eurocall2025 plenary speaker: Marina Orsini-Jones! A pioneer in CALL, VE, and multilingual education, she brings decades of expertise in digital learning and global collaboration. ⏳ Submit your paper by 17th February: eurocall2025.com 📍 Join us in Milan! #eurocall #CALL
EuroCALL 2025 - Milano
Università Cattolica | 27-30 August 2025
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Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge Element Clinical Communication by Peter Salmon cup.org/3EpJZ3f Free access available until 19 February #cambridgeelements #languageandlinguistics
Most of our commonly used statistical techniques in CL only help us identify differences between groups. But what if we instead want to empirically test whether two groups are similar/practically equivalent? Just out: Larsson & Hancock (forthcoming) www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) What if we want to test for similarities between groups, rather than differences? Equivalence testing techniques for corpus linguistics
PDF | Tests in the null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) framework are designed to identify differences between groups. Thus, researchers wishing... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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Delighted to see this in print, and grateful to be in the company of such great authors. Thanks to Anne and Kenan for bringing this all together.
A systematic review of research on AI in language education: Current status and future implications https://buff.ly/4hA3Vi7
