Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Verb categories in Irish Sign Language
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 1997)The principal aim of this study is the identification of verb categories in Irish Sign Language. The data was collected on videotape from six deaf informants, three men and three women, all of whom regard themselves as ... -
It's a Two-way Street: Informing Irish Pre-sessional EAP Programs with a Needs Analysis of Irish Higher Education
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2022)Increased student mobility has led to an increase of international students studying at Irish universities. The predictor of English LX students academic success primarily relies on standardized tests, however, the use ... -
Predicting dual-language literacy attainment in Irish-English bilinguals: language-specific and language-universal contributions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)This thesis focuses on dual-language literacy attainment and has three main aims. The first is to examine various predictors of early literacy attainment in Irish and English – phonemic awareness, rapid automatised naming ... -
A Complexity Theory approach to collaborative language learning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2016)This dissertation brings complexity theory to the investigation of collaborative language learning. The broad aims of the PhD are two-fold - firstly, to understand more about the process of collaboration, and how it affects ... -
International student adjustment in Irish universities: Language-related challenges and the role of EAP
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)The present study explores the role of language in non-native English speaking (NNES) international students adaptation in Irish universities, as well as the role of EAP in-sessional programmes in adaptation. This is ... -
Finnish and Irish Sign Languages: an egalitarian analysis of language policies and their effects
(UCD, 2010)This study aimed to advance academic understanding of what equality of condition (Baker, et al., 2004) would mean for Deaf people about recognising signed language in both education and access to information in particular. ... -
Tourists in their own land - A Social Policy Analysis of the Irish Deaf Community s Participation in Society.
(TCD, 2001)It is useful to ask why it is necessary to analyse social policy. There are several answers to this question. Firstly, social policies affect how people live, and they can be studied to find out what way is the best way ... -
"Making our own language": The translanguaging practices of transnational youths in Zacatecas, Mexico
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)This dissertation explores the discursive practices of twenty-three transnational youths located in Zacatecas, Mexico. The analysis of the qualitative data obtained is informed by Translanguaging )—a practical theory of ... -
Controlling the voice quality dimension of prosody in synthetic speech using an acoustic glottal model
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2021)Statistical parametric speech synthesis (SPSS) offers a means of generating synthetic speech without the need for complex and extensive rules. One way in which this approach is sometimes lacking is through the use of simple ... -
Assistive Technologies for Dyslexia: Punctuation and its Interfaces with Speech
Considering the well-documented issues of dyslexic students with the use of punctuation, the main purpose of this dissertation is to create a Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) tool that assists dyslexic learners ... -
The Historical Dictionary as an Exploratory Tool: A Digital Edition of Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's Lexicon Serbico-Germanico-Latinum
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)My work on the digital edition of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić’s Srpski Rječnik: Lexicon Serbico-Germanico-Latinum advances the theory and practice of digitizing historical dictionaries by demonstrating how detailed, annotated, ... -
The affordances of virtual exchange for developing global competence and active citizenship in content-based language learning
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)In times characterised by constant technological growth and increased mobility of people and ideas within complex societies across the globe, initiatives such as virtual exchange can be seen as attempts to cross global ... -
Valence adjusting in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra in a role and reference grammar account
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)This thesis is a synchronic study of valence adjusting, switch-reference and ellipsis in three dialects of the Australian Western Desert language, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra (PYN). We investigate the ... -
The Creation and Complexity Analysis of a Corpus of Educational Materials in Irish (EduGA)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)Abstract This research presents the construction of a 7.5-million word corpus of educational materials for teaching Irish and for teaching other subjects through the medium of Irish. This corpus is called EduGA. The corpus ... -
Accounting for the features of Shape and Transitivity in a Functional-Typological approach to the Ring Languages
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)The Ring languages, an understudied sub-group of the Grassfields Bantu family is examined from a function-typological perspective in relation to features of [Shape] and [Transitivity] as per Rijkhoff (2002, 2003). The word ... -
Demotivation in Learning Chinese as an Additional Language: Insights of Irish Chinese Learners
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)The teaching and learning of Chinese as an Additional Language (CAL) faces many challenges in an Irish context. Among them, demotivation is a prevalent issue identified among learners in Irish higher education. An ... -
Professionalising in a freelance eco-system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2020)This study takes a Classic Grounded Theory (CGT) approach to identifying the key concern of Irish Sign Language interpreters with respect to their professional practice and how they resolve the main concern. The rationale ... -
Grammatical, lexical and phonological control by adults learning Turkish : a corpus-based approach to expanding the Can Do descriptors in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)This thesis investigates the grammatical, lexical and phonological control of adult Turkish students in order to provide better understanding of the Turkish language development in second language learners. It aims to ... -
The relationship between phonological short-term memory and the development of L2 vocabulary and collocational knowledge : a longitudinal study of adult Polish learners of English at A2 and B1 levels of English proficiency
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)The present study examines the relationship between individual differences in Phonological Short-term Memory (PSTM) and L2 vocabulary/collocation learning in adult L2 learners in a longitudinal classroom-based study at the ... -
Becoming a teacher of Irish : the evolution of beliefs, attitudes and role of perceptions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)The aim of the present study is to explore the process of becoming a primary level teacher of Irish, the official yet minority language in Ireland. Since all primary level teachers must teach Irish, becoming a primary ...
