Centre for Language and Communication Studies (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Do Adult Simultaneous Bilinguals Outperform Adult Sequential Billinguals in Simulated Experimental Bi-Directional Simultaneous Interpreting Tasks?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2018)This doctoral study investigated whether adult simultaneous bilinguals perform better than adult sequential bilinguals in a bi-directional simultaneous interpreting (SI) task. The project adopted Grosjean's holistic theory ... -
Addressing the language barrier in healthcare : developing a theory to understand the work of medical interpreters
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The European Language Portfolio in Irish post-primary education: a longitudinal empirical evaluation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2006)This thesis is a longitudinal examination of how the introduction of the Council of Europe's European Language Portfolio (ELP) has affected foreign/second language teaching and learning in Irish post-primary schools. It ... -
The role of self and identity in motivating learners of Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2018)This thesis investigates the role of self and identity in the learning motivation of Mandarin Chinese. The number of participants is 92. Employing theories from sociology, social psychology and applied linguistics, the ... -
Gulf Pidgin Arabic: An Empirical Investigation into its Emergence and Social Attitude
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2017)While there are many contact languages that have been covered by sociolinguistic research, to date, most of those documented contact varieties are European-based and many have emerged out of imperial forces driven by the ... -
Principles of English spelling formation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2018)Studies of English spelling have primarily focussed on correspondences between spelling and sound among core, standard spellings. Segmental-level correspondences have been examined in detail (Venezky 1970, Cummings 1988, ... -
Investigating perceived challenges in English language writing instruction: An action research study in a Saudi university preparatory programme
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2017)This study investigates English language writing in a Saudi university context. In this project, it became clear that teachers as well as learners should be involved in any investigation of English language writing. Teaching ... -
Development of an automatic attitude recognition system: a multimodal analysis of video blogs
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2017)Communicative content in human communication involves expressivity of socio-affective states. Research in Linguistics, Social Signal Processing and Affective Computing in particular, highlights the importance of affect, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Vocal correlates of affective states
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)This thesis explores the mapping of voice quality to affect. Three studies have been conducted. The principal study of this thesis is a cross-language study, aimed at clarifying how variations in voice quality (in synthesised ... -
Language development in extra-territorial languages : terms of address in Colombian Spanish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)This study investigates the use of terms of address in extra-territorial languages and determines how terms of address function in language to encode relationships. In addition, this study examines how the relationship ... -
Relationships between identity and attitudes to the achievement of native speaker norms in adult L2 learners of Irish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2014)This study examines how attitude, motivation and identity in adult learners of Irish are related to awareness of and commitment to different dialects and varieties of the language as learning targets. Specifically, it is ... -
How can socially-situated practices help adult migrant language learners in Ireland make meaning of their lived experiences and forge stronger English language identities? : a narrative inquiry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)This thesis examines the post-migratory lived language learning and socialization experiences of adult migrant learners of English who are members of an intercultural drop-in centre in Ireland. It proposes the use of ... -
Aspects of verbal valency in Irish Sign Language
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2002)The principle aim of this thesis is the identification of some aspects of verbal valency patterns for Irish Sign Language (ISL). The data drawn on for this study came from a variety of sources, including authentic data ... -
The role of language policy in the revitalizaton of Occitan : a comparative analysis of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)This thesis aims to investigate language revitalization in terms of policy and planning in Occitan France. It comprises three main research questions. The first of these questions addresses the effectiveness of regional ... -
A formula for fluency? : an investigation into the effect of instruction in formulaic sequences on oral fluency in Irish
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2015)The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of a programme of instruction on oral fluency in Irish. The programme design was informed by a focus on formulaic language and by the use of procedures designed ... -
An investigation of the relationship between the development of bilingual semantic organisation and interactive connectivity across languages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2009)This thesis explores the eorrelation between second language (L2) semantic development and interactive semantic connectivity across languages. Given that bilinguals’ lexical access is language-non-selective at the initial ... -
Multi-dialect phonetisation for Irish text-to-speech synthesis : a modular approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)This thesis describes the development of a modular multi-dialect phonetiser for the Irish language. Phonetisation (or grapheme-to-phoneme conversion), the process in which ordinary text is converted into a transcription ...
