Fiona Farr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5998719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fiona Farr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fiona |
| FAMILY NAME | Farr |
| SIGNATURE | FARR F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3800-1837 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Corpus-Based Reflective Practice to Support Chatroom Teaching Practice
Teaching practice has long been considered a fundamental and integral part of any teacher education programme, but also very demanding for novice teachers when they are confronted with the reality of the classroom, for the first time in many cases. Teacher educators aim to allow student teachers to experience practice opportunities reflective of their many potential real-world future teaching scenarios, including, for example, teaching online thr…
Moving beyond the formal
Conversations and networks are essential for transforming academics’ teaching practices as learning experiences (Palmer 1993). Yet, there has been little research reporting academics’ informal conversations about teaching (Thomson and Trigwell 2018). Teachers will generally access small significant networks (Becher and Trowler 2001) for nuanced and personal issues relating to teaching and learning. Collaborative transnational projects provide fer…
Perspectives on virtual intercultural communication in the Irish-based technology sector
This mixed-methods study investigates English-medium oral online intercultural communication within the Irish-based international technology sector. The initial phase of the research consisted of a survey investigating participants’ ( N = 113) experiences of virtual communication. Following the survey, to linguistically investigate such interactions, the International Virtual Team Corpus (IVT Corpus) was created. This corpus consists of approxima…
Indicating engagement in online workplace meetings
Amid COVID-19 and the so-called “digital pivot”, online virtual communication is at the heart of our professional and private lives. As we move into a post-COVID context, the affordances of the digital turn have shown that we can operate professionally online but there is a need for better understanding of communication in the online workplace. This paper contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of indicators of engagement in multi-party …
Corpora in English Language Teacher Education
For some time, arguments have been made that for the increased successful use of corpus linguistics (CL), in the form of Data‐Driven Learning (DDL; Johns, 1991) in the second language classroom, teacher education programs must play a central role by providing the necessary instruction and triggers. Three means of integrating corpora into teacher education have been identified (Leńko‐Szymańska, 2022): as a tool for language awareness, as pedagogic…
Reflective Practices
Due to the complex, and often hidden, nature of reflective practice it is generally best researched through a mixed methods approach in order to provide as holistic and plausible an interpretation as possible. After a brief introduction to the origins and nature of reflective practice in the English language teaching profession, this entry provides a summary outline of five of the most commonly mixed research approaches in this field: linguistic …
Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland
The Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), founded in 1997, brings together researchers and postgraduate students from several disciplines in language studies, and is structured in three research clusters: New learning environments; Discourse, society and identity; and Plurilingualism and language policy. There is a certain amount of overlapping between the clusters, and several researchers are active in more than one cluster. Thus research …
Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland
The Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), founded in 1997, is a research centre within the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication. It brings together researchers and postgraduate students from several disciplines within the School, which includes six languages: English (English Language Teaching and English Literature), French, German, Irish, Japanese and Spanish. The Centre provides a focus for research in applied langu…
Religious references in contemporary Irish English
This article examines the nature and use of religious references across a range of contexts, and also age and gender groups to establish their patterning and functioning in contemporary English, with particular reference to Irish English. The examination is carried out by using quantitative and qualitative corpus-based tools and methodologies, such as relative frequency lists and concordances, as well as details of formulaic strings, including si…
Evaluating the Use of Corpus-based Instruction in a Language Teacher Education Context
A recent practice in the study of language on teacher education programmes has been the use of electronic corpora, and we are therefore still at the initial stages of exploring key issues relating to their integration. Despite arguments for and against their adaptation, there is a dearth of evaluative research examining student teachers' perceptions of learning and teaching through corpus-based activities. This paper has two main foci. Firstly, i…
Using Language Corpora in Initial Teacher Education
Recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of materials such as dictionaries and grammars which are 'corpus-based' and it is difficult to dispute the contribution of corpus linguistics to English language description.There have also been many developments in the use of corpora in the classroom in data-driven learning (Johns 1991).However, this rapid development in new technology has not been matched in teacher education provision.This p…
Religious references in contemporary Irish English
This article examines the nature and use of religious references across a range of contexts, and also age and gender groups to establish their patterning and functioning in contemporary English, with particular reference to Irish English. The examination is carried out by using quantitative and qualitative corpus-based tools and methodologies, such as relative frequency lists and concordances, as well as details of formulaic strings, including si…
Using Language Corpora in Initial Teacher Education
Recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of materials such as dictionaries and grammars which are 'corpus-based' and it is difficult to dispute the contribution of corpus linguistics to English language description.There have also been many developments in the use of corpora in the classroom in data-driven learning (Johns 1991).However, this rapid development in new technology has not been matched in teacher education provision.This p…
Corpora in English Language Teacher Education
For some time, arguments have been made that for the increased successful use of corpus linguistics (CL), in the form of Data‐Driven Learning (DDL; Johns, 1991) in the second language classroom, teacher education programs must play a central role by providing the necessary instruction and triggers. Three means of integrating corpora into teacher education have been identified (Leńko‐Szymańska, 2022): as a tool for language awareness, as pedagogic…
Using Language Corpora in Initial Teacher Education
Recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of materials such as dictionaries and grammars which are 'corpus-based' and it is difficult to dispute the contribution of corpus linguistics to English language description.There have also been many developments in the use of corpora in the classroom in data-driven learning (Johns 1991).However, this rapid development in new technology has not been matched in teacher education provision.This p…
Evaluating the Use of Corpus-based Instruction in a Language Teacher Education Context
A recent practice in the study of language on teacher education programmes has been the use of electronic corpora, and we are therefore still at the initial stages of exploring key issues relating to their integration. Despite arguments for and against their adaptation, there is a dearth of evaluative research examining student teachers' perceptions of learning and teaching through corpus-based activities. This paper has two main foci. Firstly, i…
Religious references in contemporary Irish English
This article examines the nature and use of religious references across a range of contexts, and also age and gender groups to establish their patterning and functioning in contemporary English, with particular reference to Irish English. The examination is carried out by using quantitative and qualitative corpus-based tools and methodologies, such as relative frequency lists and concordances, as well as details of formulaic strings, including si…
Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland
The Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), founded in 1997, is a research centre within the School of Languages, Literature, Culture and Communication. It brings together researchers and postgraduate students from several disciplines within the School, which includes six languages: English (English Language Teaching and English Literature), French, German, Irish, Japanese and Spanish. The Centre provides a focus for research in applied langu…
Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland
The Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS), founded in 1997, brings together researchers and postgraduate students from several disciplines in language studies, and is structured in three research clusters: New learning environments; Discourse, society and identity; and Plurilingualism and language policy. There is a certain amount of overlapping between the clusters, and several researchers are active in more than one cluster. Thus research …
Reflective Practices
Due to the complex, and often hidden, nature of reflective practice it is generally best researched through a mixed methods approach in order to provide as holistic and plausible an interpretation as possible. After a brief introduction to the origins and nature of reflective practice in the English language teaching profession, this entry provides a summary outline of five of the most commonly mixed research approaches in this field: linguistic …
Moving beyond the formal
Conversations and networks are essential for transforming academics’ teaching practices as learning experiences (Palmer 1993). Yet, there has been little research reporting academics’ informal conversations about teaching (Thomson and Trigwell 2018). Teachers will generally access small significant networks (Becher and Trowler 2001) for nuanced and personal issues relating to teaching and learning. Collaborative transnational projects provide fer…
Perspectives on virtual intercultural communication in the Irish-based technology sector
This mixed-methods study investigates English-medium oral online intercultural communication within the Irish-based international technology sector. The initial phase of the research consisted of a survey investigating participants’ ( N = 113) experiences of virtual communication. Following the survey, to linguistically investigate such interactions, the International Virtual Team Corpus (IVT Corpus) was created. This corpus consists of approxima…
Indicating engagement in online workplace meetings
Amid COVID-19 and the so-called “digital pivot”, online virtual communication is at the heart of our professional and private lives. As we move into a post-COVID context, the affordances of the digital turn have shown that we can operate professionally online but there is a need for better understanding of communication in the online workplace. This paper contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of indicators of engagement in multi-party …
Corpora in English Language Teacher Education
For some time, arguments have been made that for the increased successful use of corpus linguistics (CL), in the form of Data‐Driven Learning (DDL; Johns, 1991) in the second language classroom, teacher education programs must play a central role by providing the necessary instruction and triggers. Three means of integrating corpora into teacher education have been identified (Leńko‐Szymańska, 2022): as a tool for language awareness, as pedagogic…
Corpus-Based Reflective Practice to Support Chatroom Teaching Practice
Teaching practice has long been considered a fundamental and integral part of any teacher education programme, but also very demanding for novice teachers when they are confronted with the reality of the classroom, for the first time in many cases. Teacher educators aim to allow student teachers to experience practice opportunities reflective of their many potential real-world future teaching scenarios, including, for example, teaching online thr…
Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Pedagogy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Language education (4 works) · Irish (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)