Centre for Language and Communication Studies: Recent submissions
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Composing the L2-M2 Self: A Grounded Theory Study on the Concerns of Adult Irish Sign Language Learners
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Linguistic Speech & Comm Sci. C.L.C.S., 2019)Language learning in a classroom setting raises challenges for learners, regardless of modality. In addition to learning a second or subsequent language (L2), in this study, participants are also learning through a new ... -
Deaf Women of Ireland (1922-1994).
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The emergence of inflection in bilingual first language acquisition : considerations for theories of grammatical development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2017)This thesis investigates morphological productivity across two different language types in the early stages of combinatorial speech, based on longitudinal and experimental data from two children who are acquiring two native ... -
Aspects of linguistic organisation : evidence from lexical processing L1-L2 translation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2002)The present study deals with the linguistic behaviour of second language learners in the performance of L1-L2 translation. It is concerned with aspects of productive processing in the light of the cognitive structures underlying ... -
Socio-linguistic experience of immigration. Identity negotiation and cross-linguistic influences : a comparative analysis of two Polish communities in Austria and Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)The thesis was written under the title of Socio-linguistic Experience of Immigration. Identity Negotiation and Cross-Linguistic Influences: a Comparative Analysis of Two Polish Communities in Austria and Ireland. The focus ... -
Developing English language support for immigrant students in Irish post-primary schools : a corpus linguistics approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2012)The present research was conducted as part of the English Language Support Programme (ELSP) of the Trinity immigration Initiative (2007-2010), Trinity College Dublin (TCD). The aim of the ELSP was to investigate and enhance ... -
Acquiring English L2 in Irish primary schools : an investigation of the relation between pupils' achievement and the learning outcomes specified in the English language proficiency benchmarks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)This thesis compares empirical evidence of English L2 acquisition by primary school pupils acquiring English as a second language in Ireland (ESL pupils) with the learning outcomes described in the guidelines provided for ... -
English language support for migrant students in Irish post-primary schools : an exploration of policy & practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2010)This thesis presents an empirical exploration of language support for English as a Second Language (ESL) students in Irish post-primary schools. The presence of large numbers of ESL students can be attributed to the ... -
The effect of cross-language phonetic similarity perception on second language speech learning : the case of Polish migrant children and adults in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies, 2011)The main goal of this thesis was to gain a better understanding of age- related differences in second language speech learning. Specifically, it was of interest in the present study to explore whether child learners of a ... -
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 ...
