{"title":"A needs survey of overseas Irish language learners","authors":"R. Connolly","doi":"10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1310","url":null,"abstract":"The vast majority of endangered languages are expected to have vanished\u0000 from community use within one to two generations (Lackaff & Moner,\u0000 2016). One such language, Irish, may die out as a vernacular within a decade\u0000 in the Irish-speaking regions of Ireland (Ó Giollagáin & Charlton,\u0000 2015). However, there is growing interest in the Irish language overseas,\u0000 particularly in the USA (Schwartz, 2020). In this study, a survey was\u0000 conducted with 92 respondents to identify the needs of learners living\u0000 outside of Ireland. The findings of this needs assessment suggest that\u0000 overseas Irish learners would benefit from the provision of an online Irish\u0000 language community that connects members through communicative and\u0000 collaborative language activities. Positioned in the context of similar\u0000 developments and innovations internationally (e.g. Henry, Carroll, Cunliffe,\u0000 & Kop, 2018), this research builds on existing literature in online\u0000 sociocultural language learning.","PeriodicalId":350173,"journal":{"name":"CALL and professionalisation: short papers from EUROCALL 2021","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127571171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}