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US Fulbright Student Award for students enrolled on taught postgraduate programmes
The Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences is funding one award to meet the fee of the recipient of a US Fulbright Student Award admitted to a taught course in this Faculty in 2012/13. Please contact Dr Jeffrey Kallen, the Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Learning, if you wish to apply for this award.
New book: Multilingualism by Larissa Aronin and David Singleton
David Singleton, Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of Linguistic, Speech, and Communication Sciences, has co-authored an important new book on multilingualism, with Larissa Aronin of the Oranim Academic College of Education. The book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is very wide-ranging. It deals with both bilingualism and polyglottism, at the level of the individual speaker as well as at the societal level. The volume addresses not only linguistic facets of multilingualism but also multilingualism’s cultural, sociological, educational, and psychological dimensions, moving from classic perspectives to recent and emerging directions of interest. The book’s extensive coverage takes in topics ranging from the ‘new linguistic dispensation’ in our globalized world to child development in multilingual environments, from the classification of multilingual groupings to characteristics of the multilingual mind. This breadth makes Multilingualism an ideal advanced textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the areas of linguistics, education and the social sciences. More (Word document, 149 KB).
School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences plays leading role in EU LUCIDE Project (2011-2014)
The LUCIDE project (2011 – 2014) funded under the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme (KA2), is a consortium of fourteen European university and city partners with experience in researching multilingualism in urban settings, with input from two leading partner institutions in Canada (OLBI, Professor Richard Clément) and Australia (University of Melbourne, Professor Jo LoBianco). Dr Lorna Carson of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences will lead the consortium’s research activities, which includes investigating good practice in multilingualism in key spheres of city life in each partner city, involving education, economic activity, public governance and urban space, and in areas where multilingual policy and practice may be in contradiction. More
TCD Sports Scholarship awarded to Clinical Speech & Language Studies Student
The Department of Clinical Speech & Language Studies is delighted to announce that Éanna Horan, a current Junior Sophister student in our Department, was awarded a TCD Sports Scholarship in recognition of her achievements with the Trinity Ladies Hockey Team, as well as her academic achievements.
Research Studentships for Ph.D. Students
Closing date: 1 May 2012
For details see our Post Graduate page.
PUBLIC LECTURES
Polish-Irish Seminar on "Language and Representation"
The Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College,
would like to invite you to a
Polish-Irish Seminar on 'Language and Representation'
on Thursday 26th April 2012 from 1 pm to 6 pm
in Room 2041B in the Arts Building, Trinity College.
Please see programme for further details.
CLCS Postgraduate Talks
Title: Situated language learning for adult refugees in Ireland
Speaker: Peter Sheekey
Time and Place: Monday, May 21, 2012, at 7 pm in the Uí Chadhain Theatre (Room 2014B), Arts Building
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Title: A Mixed Methods Approach to Language Needs Analysis
Speaker: Emma Riordan
Time and Place: Monday, 5 March, 2012 at 8.00 pm in Room 3126, Arts Building.
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Title: Individualising L2 pronunciation instruction: The case for addressing learner identity'.
Speaker: Dr. Deirdre Murphy
Time and Place: Monday, February 6, 2012, at 8.00 pm in Room 4050A, Arts Building.
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Title: Occitan language revitalization: Reflections in the linguistic landscape
Speaker: Laura Diver
Time and Place: Monday, November 28, 2011, at 7.30 pm in Room 4050B, Arts Building