Below is an archive of event announcements from 2002-present. Event abstracts and slides can be downloaded using the blue buttons to the right of the descriptions.
6th of March Book launch Exploratory Action Research: Stories of Nepalese EFL Teachers
2020
11th of December 2020 Corpus linguistics and natural language processing tools in text readability assessment, Dr Anna Bączkowska (University of Łódź, Poland)
2nd of October Research and teaching in Applied Linguistics: How we have been affected by COVID-19 pandemic Dr Iker Erdocia (Dublin City University)
2nd of July Language in a health crisis: navigating Covid-19 in a multilingual Ireland (webinar) Dr John Walsh (NUI Galway); Dr Stanislava Antonijevic (NUI Galway); Dr Annie Asgard (Claddagh National School); Dr Cassie Smith-Christmas (NUI Galway)
11 June 2020 Monolingualism: epidemiology, natural history, treatment and prevention. Dr Thomas H Bak University of Edinburgh
6 April 2020 The IRAAL-SAALinBiH Tandem Initiative: First Webinar focusing on the exchange of experiences in language teaching and research. Dr Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin, National University of Ireland Galway Dr Alma Jahic Jasic and Dr Tanja Pavlovic, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
13 February 2020 Dr Teresa Lynn, Research Fellow at the ADAPT Research Centre in Dublin City University, Linguistics for Language Technology
10 February 2020 Dr Emma Riordan, University College Cork, Higher Education Language Educator Competences (HELECs): a national project for the continuing professional development of language educators in HE
2019
12 December 2019 Dr Erika Piazzoli, Trinity College Dublin, Performative language teaching and process drama: Research, theory and practice.
25 February 2019 Dr Marina Artese, Centro linguistico d’Ateneo (University Language Centre), Università di Bologna, Italy, The CEFR Companion Volume: an Action-oriented approach for intercultural identity in the second language classroom
24 January 2019 Dr Jennifer Martyn, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, DCU, The Interface of learner identity and language ideologies: The Case of foreign language learning at secondary school in Ireland
2018
24 November 2018 IRAAL Annual Conference, Dublin City University Applied Linguistics and Language Strategies: Practices and Policies
10 May 2018 Dr Carlotta Sparvoli, School of Asian Studies, UCC, Learned helplessness: the case of Chinese Syntax Acquisition
26 March 2018 Professor David Singleton ‘Multilingualism, multi-competence and (limits to) the interaction between language systems in the mind.’ (Special Lecture marking the conferring of AILA Lifetime Honorary Membership)
8 March 2018 Dr Keita Kikuchi, ‘What do we need to know about motivation and demotivation in language learning?’