CALS Annual Research Day 2023

09.20

Welcome and Opening: Prof. Fiona Farr, CALS Director

LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND COMMUNICATION

Chair: Prof. Fiona Farr

9.30-10.00

Dr Florence Le Baron-Earle: Culture Shocked!: Using Comics Depicting Critical Incidents to Develop Intercultural Awareness.

10.00-10.30

Prof. Helen Kelly-Holmes: When small languages go big.

10.30 – 11.00

Coffee Break

PhD Panel

Chair: Mark Ryan

11.00 – 12.00

Gail Flanagan: Business discourse in the Irish technology sector: a corpus-based investigation of spoken language in International Virtual Teams (IVTs).

Asmaa Ghitri: Investigating Interactive Discourse in an EFL Blended Learning Environment.

Islam Ben Adel: A cross-cultural pragmatic investigation of invitation realisations in Irish English and Algerian Arabic.

Ryma Menai: Investigating Academic Writing of Algerian PhD Students at Limerick University: Case of Linguistic Innovations.

LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING

Chair: Dr Marie-Thérèse Batardière

12.00 – 12.30

Dr Lucia Pintado: Accessibility in foreign language teaching and learning.

12.30-13.00

Prof. Fiona Farr and Dr Elaine Riordan: Re-Evaluating the use of corpus-based instruction in a language teacher education context: perspectives from the users.

13.00 – 13.30

Catherine Jeanneau: Participating online, learning languages and acting as a digital citizen: Exploring the possibilities of real-world digital tasks for the language classroom.

13.30 – 14.15

Lunch

DISCOURSE, SOCIETY, AND IDENTITY

Chair: Dr Elaine Riordan

14.15-14.45

Dr Elaine Vaughan and Dr Brian Clancy: The language of dating: A corpus pragmatic approach to First Dates Ireland

14.45 – 15.15

15.15