Language, Learning and Teaching Irish Research Perspectives

Fiona Farr lectures in English language teaching at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests include spoken language corpora and their applications, foreign language teacher education, discourse analysis and language variety. She is the author of The Discourse of Teaching Practice Feedback: A Corpus-Based Investigation of Spoken and Written Modes (2010).

Máiréad Moriarty lectures in Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests revolve around the broad theme of multilingualism. She is particularly interested in the nature of the relationship between minority languages and aspects of the media, popular culture and tourism. She is a member of the Peripheral Multi lingualism research project, which is funded by the Finnish Academy (2011-2014), under the direction of Professor Sari Pietikäinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.