Dr. Emma Riordan

• Riordan, Emma, Earls, Clive, Furlong, Áine, Flynn, Colin, Benini, Silvia, Higher Education Language Educator Competences (HELECs), TEANGA, the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 27, 2020Journal Article, 2020, DOI
• Riordan, E., Earls, C., Furlong, Á., Flynn, C., Higher Education Language Educator Competences: A Framework of Competences for Higher Education Language Educators in Ireland, National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2021, 1 - 28Report, 2021, URL
• Emma Riordan, Language for Teaching Purposes: Bilingual classroom discourse and the non-native speaker language teacher, London, Palgrave, 2018Book, 2018, DOI , URL
• Toth, Patricia & Riordan, Emma, "My Polish is dying, and I'm really upset about it!": First language experiences of the 1.5 generation of immigrants in Ireland., Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 31, 2024, p119 - 141Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Emma Riordan, Dragan Miladinovic, Sabine Manhartsbergerm Siobhán Mortell & Megan Dempsey, Exploring the challenges of making digital language learning materials accessible., All Ireland Journal of Higher Education Special Issue with AHEAD, 16, (2), 2024Journal Article, 2024, DOI
• Clive Earls, Emma Riordan, Aine Furlong, Colin Flynn & Silvia Benini, The Complex and Changing Face of Higher-Education Language Teaching in the Republic of Ireland., All Ireland Journal of Higher Education, 14, (3), 2022Journal Article, 2022, DOI
• Riordan Emma, Language education for non-native speaker language teachers, TEANGA, the Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 24, 2018, p44-55-Journal Article, 2018
• Emma Riordan, The policy and practice of teacher target language use in post-primary foreign language classrooms in Ireland., European Journal of Language Policy, 7, (2), 2015, p165 - 179Journal Article, 2015, DOI
• Emma Riordan, Factors affecting target language use in the post-primary classroom in Ireland, Yearbook of the German Studies Association of Ireland, 10, 2015, p109 - 124Journal Article, 2015
• Emma Riordan, Craig Neville & TJ O' Ceallaigh, Translanguaging in Irish-medium education: Balancing plurilingualism and language revitalization., Bridging Voices in Plurilingual Education: Policies, Research and Practices, Roma Tre University, University of Roma Tre, 23rd - 24th October, 2025Conference Paper, 2025
• Emma Riordan & Anne Marie Devlin, Developing Plurilingual Identities During Study Abroad., Association of German Studies Annual Conference, St John"s College, Oxford, September 1st-2nd, 2025Conference Paper, 2025
• TJ O Ceallaigh & Emma Riordan, A plurilingual approach to teaching modern foreign languages in Irish-medium immersion: Implications for teacher education and curriculum design., Irish Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference, Maynooth University, November 18th, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
• Emma Riordan, Dragan Miladinovic & Sabine Manhartsberger, Managing the complexity: enhancing accessibility of and engagement with digital language learning materials., Association of University Language Communities" annual conference, University of Edinburgh, 2023Conference Paper, 2023
• Emma Riordan, Codeswitching processes and practices in the non-immersion language classroom, Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA) World Congress, Groningen, 15th-20th August, 2021Conference Paper, 2021

• Emma Riordan, Anne Marie Devlin, Developing Plurilingual Identities During Study Abroad, Plurilingualism: Insights from Europe, University College Cork, 7 November 2025, 2025Invited Talk

Dr Emma Riordan is Schuler Assistant Professor in German Applied Linguistics with a research and teaching portfolio that spans language education, multilingual classroom discourse, and teacher language use. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Centre for Language and Communication Studies at Trinity College Dublin, where her doctoral research focused on the language needs of non-native speaker language teachers. Her monograph Language for Teaching Purposes and a range of peer-reviewed publications reflect a sustained engagement with applied linguistics in educational contexts. Emma has extensive experience in curriculum development and teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including modules on Teaching German as a Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics. She has supervised MA theses and contributed to national and international initiatives on digital inclusion, curriculum reform, and teacher education. Her leadership roles include serving as President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics and founding the interdisciplinary research cluster Language: Cognition, Practice, Policy and Ideology at University College Cork. In her current role, Emma is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate research in applied linguistics and language teaching and learning. She welcomes proposals that explore teaching German as a foreign language, multilingual education, classroom language use, digital pedagogies, and language policy. Her aim is to support emerging researchers in producing work that is both theoretically robust and practically relevant, contributing to the advancement of language education in higher education and beyond.

Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Teacher education and professional development of educators, Language studies,

• Boyle Scholarship for German Studies, University College Cork 2005
• National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education seminar series funding 2023, 2019, 2017
• National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Enhancement fund 2018
• Digital Inclusion microgrant UCC 2022
• Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund, 2024
• Postgraduate scholarship Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences 2010-2013
• Scéim Sparántachtaí Taighde: An Comhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscholaíochta 2023

• Member Cost Action ENIS European Network on International Student Mobility 2025
• Committee Member AILA Europe
• President of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics