IVACS RESEARCHERS
| Svenja Adolphs | San San Hnin Tun | Luke Prodromou |
| Carolina Amador Moreno | Dawn Knight | Nikoleta Ratpi |
| James Binchy | Barbara Malveira Orfano | Bunny Richardson |
| Dermot Campbell | Michael McCarthy | Paul Roberts |
| Ron Carter | Marty Meinardi | Norbert Schmitt |
| Brian Clancy | Bróna Murphy | Yuko Taniguchi |
| Valerie Durow | Róisín Ní Mhocháin | Ivor Timmis |
| Jane Evison | Aisling O'Boyle | Elaine Vaughan |
| Fiona Farr | Anne O'Keeffe | Steve Walsh |
| Sarah Grandage | Radka Obrtelova | Zoltan Dornyei |
| Kieran Harrington | Maria Palma Fahey |
Dr Svenja Adolphs
Research Associate, Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
Research Interests: spoken language corpora; suggestions in casual conversation; lexical patterning and language corpora.
Contact details: Svenja.Adolphs@nottingham.ac.uk
James Binchy
Projects Officer, Learner Support Unit, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Research Interests: service encounters;small talk; politeness; academic writing
Contact details: james.binchy@mic.ul.ie
LSU: www.mic.ul.ie/lsu
Prof. Ronald Carter
Professor of Modern English Language, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK (www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/staff/carter.htm)
Research Interests: English language and linguistics, language learning and teaching, applied linguistics and in literary-linguistic studies. See recent publications: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/staff/carter.htm#Recent
Contact details: Ronald.Carter@nottingham.ac.uk
Brian Clancy
Projects Officer, Learner Support Unit (LSU), Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Registered for PhD in Applied Linguistics
Research interests: Corpus Linguistics and spoken English, especially speech in intimate settings; mature student education; the development of teaching skills at third level; the use of authentic writing materials as a resource in the academic writing classroom.
Contact details: Brian.Clancy@mic.ul.ie
LSU: www.mic.ul.ie/lsu/intro.htm
Dr Jane Evison
University Teacher in TESOL, School of Education, University of Nottingham
Tutor, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham
Research interests: Corpus-based studies of spoken language, discourse features of academic talk, corpora and language teaching
Contact details: Jane.Evison@nottingham.ac.uk
Dr Fiona Farr
Course Director MA in TEFL, Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland. www.ul.ie/~lcs/TEFL/
Research Interests: Spoken language corpora and their applications, foreign language teacher training, Southern Irish English
Contact details: fiona.farr@ul.ie
Dr San San Hnin Tun
Senior Lecturer (Burmese & French), Dept. of Asian Studies & Romance Studies, Cornell University, N.Y.
Research interests: Discourse Particles in Burmese; Burmese and languages (learning and teaching); CALL.
Contact details: sht3@cornell.edu
Dr Dawn Knight
Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL), School of English Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
Research Interests: Multi-modal Corpus Design and Analysis Methodologies; Patterns of Gesture-in-Talk; Backchanneling Behaviour in Spoken Discourse; Corpus Linguistics
Contact Details: aexdk3@nottingham.ac.uk
CRAL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/research/cral/doku.php
Barbara Orfano Malveira
TEFL Section, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
Registered for PhD in Applied Linguistics
Research Interests:
Teaching of spoken language; discourse analysis and corpus linguistics; authenticity and language teaching; media discourse.
Contact details: Barbara.Orfano@mic.ul.ie
Prof. Michael McCarthy
Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of English Studies, University of Nottingham (www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/staff/mccarthy.htm)
Research Interests: Applied linguistics; discourse analysis; spoken corpus linguistics. Recent publications: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/staff/mccarthy.htm
Contact details: Michael.McCarthy@nottingham.ac.uk
Marty Meinardi
Part-time Lecturer in English at the School of Languages and Drama in Education at the School of Social Sciences both at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Ireland.
Research interests: Authentic lesson material in language teaching; fluency and the use of formulaic language.
Contact details: marty.meinardi@dit.ie
Dr Bróna Murphy
Associate Lecturer in Language Education, Moray House School of Education, Unviersity of Edinburgh.
Research interests: Corpus Linguistics, Southern Irish English, Lexicology and morphology.
Contact details: brona.murphy@education.ed.ac.uk
Róisín Ní Mhocháin
TEFL Section, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Research Interests: Email and the implications for EFL teaching
Contact details: Roisin.NiMhochain@mic.ul.ie
Dr Anne O’Keeffe
TEFL Section, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Research Interests: corpus-based studies of language varieties, media discourse, corpus applications in language teaching
Contact details: anne.okeeffe@mic.ul.ie
Dr Maria Palma Fahey
H Dip in Ed. (Philosophy, Universidad Católica de Chile) MA in Spanish (UCC), PhD (MIC/UL)
Research interests: Spanish pragmatics; language variation; cross-cultural pragmatic analysis of spoken language corpora and soap opera corpora; intercultural communication; Spanish language teaching.
Contact details: maria.palmafahey@mic.ul.ie
Dr Bunny Richardson
Lecturer (PT), School of Languages (English), Dublin Institute of Technology.
Research interests: Listening and pronunciation in EL teaching and learning English as an International Language; English for International Purposes; CALL.
Contact details: bunny.richardson@dit.ie
Paul Roberts
Head of ELT, University of Hertfordshire, UK.
Research interests: English as an International/Global/World language.
Contact details: p.roberts@herts.ac.uk
Yuko Taniguchi
Research student in Applied Linguistics, Mary Immaculate College/University of Limerick
Research interests: Discourse analysis; affective aspects of language use; address forms (in EFL classrooms); spoken language.
Contact details: Yuko.Taniguchi@mic.ul.ie
Dr Ivor Timmis
Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching Languages, School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University
Research interests: Corpora and English Language Teaching; the role of the native speaker in English Language Teaching; the Mass Observation archives as a language corpus; implementing the lexical approach.
Contact details: i.timmis@leedsmet.ac.uk
Diana Slade
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Technology, Sydney
www.education.uts.edu.au/ostaff/staff/diana_slade.html
Research Interests: analysing casual conversation; spoken language corpora; workplace language and communication.
Contact details: diana.slade@uts.edu.au
Dr Elaine Vaughan
Teaching and Learning Advocate, Centre for Teaching and Learning, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland
Research interests: Institutional and professional discourse; humour in discourse; the profession of English language teaching both inside and outside the classroom; spoken language and corpus analysis.
Contact details: Elaine.Vaughan@mic.ul.ie
Dr Steve Walsh
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, School of Education, Communications and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK.
Research Interests: Classroom discourse and its application in teacher education
Contact details: steve.walsh@ncl.ac.uk