PG Award – IRAAL

Winners of the IRAAL Postgraduate Award

Huge congratulations to the winner of the 2024 Postgraduate Award:

Hilary Ní Chonchubhair

Presentation Title (PhD): An tumoideachas déanach: bac nó buntáiste? Exploring the transition experiences of late immersion learners

Institution: University College Cork

Supervisors: Prof. Nicola Ingram (UCC) and Dr Diarmuid Lester (UCC)

Huge congratulations to the winner of the 2023 Postgraduate Award:

Leire Sarto-Zubiaurre

Presentation Title (PhD): The Influence of Irish on the Acquisition of Spanish as an Additional Language in Ireland

Institution: University College Dublin

Supervisors: Prof. Bettina Migge (UCD), Assist. Prof. Stephen Lucek (UCD)

Huge congratulations to the winner of the 2022 Postgraduate Award:

Dragan Miladinović

Thesis Title (PhD): “Wozu das ganze Theater? Was OeAD-Lektor:innen von performativem Lehren und Lernen halten“ (Why the drama? What Austrian Exchange Service Lecturers think about performative teaching and learning”)

Institution: University College Cork

Supervisors: Dr Barbara Siller (UCC), Prof. Emeritus Manfred Schewe (UCC), Dr Susanne Even (UCC)

Huge congratulations to the winner of the 2021 Postgraduate Award:

Sagun Shrestha

Thesis Title (PhD): Affordances and Challenges of Using ICT in Secondary School Education during Crises: An Activity Theoretical Study

Institution: Dublin City University

Supervisors: Prof. Françoise Blin (DCU), Prof. Jennifer Bruen (DCU)

Huge congratulations to the winners of the 2020 Postgraduate Award:

Tereza Mytakou

Thesis Title (PhD): Feminist Pedagogy in the EFL Refugee Classroom

Institution: Trinity College Dublin

Supervisors: Prof. Lorna Carson (TCD)

Suzanne McCarthy

Thesis Title (MA): Heritage languages in the Irish primary school context: an investigation into teachers’ attitudes and pedagogical practice in the area of support for first language maintenance in bilingual pupils

Institution: Technological University of Dublin, Blanchardstown Campus

Supervisor: Dr Bozena Dubiel (TU)

Huge congratulations to the winner of the 2019 Postgraduate Award:

Francesca Nicora

Thesis Title (PhD): Evaluating the effectiveness of explicit prosodic training in a didactic environment: the case of Hiberno English learners of Italian as a foreign language

Institution: Trinity College Dublin

Supervisors: Dr. Anne O‘Connor (UG), Dr. Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin (UG) and Dr. Barbara Gili Fivela (Università del Salento)