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Language for teaching purposes : an analysis of the spoken language needs of non-native speaker language teachers
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2014)It is understood that the non-native speaker language teacher (NNSLT) requires a high level of language proficiency to be an effective and confident professional. However, the teaching of language to NNSLTs is often neglected ... -
Text-to-speech synthesis in computer-assisted language learning for Irish : development and evaluation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2014)This thesis sets out to develop and evaluate speech synthesis-based computer-assisted language learning (CALL) platforms. Central to this work is the evaluation of the fitness- for-purpose, as part of a language teaching/learning ... -
Colloquialization in world Englishes : a corpus-based study of phrasal verbs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)This thesis takes a corpus-based approach to show the presence and progress, if there is any, of colloquialization in six ICE-corpora of Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Singapore, Jamaica and India by using the frequency ... -
First and second language socialisation processes among Polish immigrant adolescents in Ireland : ethnography and case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)Due to the dramatic increase in the population of immigrants in Ireland in recent years, the sociolinguistic dynamics of Irish classrooms has changed considerably. This thesis takes a Language Socialisation (LS) perspective ... -
Talking about space : the Spatial Reference System of Irish English
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)This thesis has three central goals. The first is to establish a system for how people used to talk about space in previous studies of Irish English. This Is done through constructing a Spatial Reference System from extant ...
