TeangaPub Date : 2019-07-17DOI: 10.35903/teanga.v22i0.155
Hayley Reffell
{"title":"Varieties of English: an examination of an Irish English speaker","authors":"Hayley Reffell","doi":"10.35903/teanga.v22i0.155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v22i0.155","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to compare a southern Irish English speaker who lives in New Zealand with what literature in the field portrays as typical speech for the Irish variety of English. This paper does not discuss the historical or contemporary reasons for why Irish English is as it is today. This paper has limited its analysis to the reasons why the native Irish speaker of English differs from other norms, and comments only on differences. The southern Irish English variety has unique phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactical features, as well as a distinguishing intonation and stress pattern. Only phonological differences are examined here. Four main aspects of Irish English are investigated; the /w/ ~ /hw/ contrast; the contrast of /t/ with /θ/; the STRUT /ʌ / and FOOT /ʊ/ vowels (the GOOSE vowel will only be looked at in the context of a variable with STRUT and FOOT; and the PRICE / ai / and CHOICE / Ɔɪ / diphthongs. The analysis of these sounds shows evidence that there are competing influences on an individual’s conscious or subconscious phonological choices; pride in one’s language and heritage might compete with one’s aspiring social status and professional ambitions. Together these could be further influenced by the linguistic environments one has been in or in which one currently finds oneself. These competing forces lead to some expected but also some unexpected departures from other norms.","PeriodicalId":36036,"journal":{"name":"Teanga","volume":"299 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73586642","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}
TeangaPub Date : 2019-07-17DOI: 10.35903/teanga.v22i0.152
C. Moreno
{"title":"Varieties of English: varieties of literature. Some notes on Irish English and ELT","authors":"C. Moreno","doi":"10.35903/teanga.v22i0.152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v22i0.152","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to show that the use of texts written in non-standard varieties of English, such as Irish English (or Hiberno-English), could be a valuable complement to language teaching and language learning. The paper concentrates on a number of linguistic features which are characteristic of this variety of English and which appear in the works of Irish writers. Special attention is paid to the work of Donegal author Patrick MacGill, and excerpts from his early novels are used as an example of Irish English writing.","PeriodicalId":36036,"journal":{"name":"Teanga","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83608991","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}
TeangaPub Date : 2019-07-16DOI: 10.35903/teanga.v23i0.141
Jennifer Bruen, Thomas Wagner
{"title":"Content and language integrated learning: reflections on a pilot module","authors":"Jennifer Bruen, Thomas Wagner","doi":"10.35903/teanga.v23i0.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v23i0.141","url":null,"abstract":"CLIL, or ‘Content and Language Integrated Learning’, is a term used to describe the practice of teaching content through a foreign language. It represents an educational approach which can embody a range of different methodologies and has, in recent years, been receiving increased attention in Europe, partially because efforts put into language teaching are not always reflected in the results achieved. This paper begins with a brief overview of developments in the field of foreign language acquisition and how these might relate to the notion of CLIL. It then goes on to describe the design, delivery, and evaluation of a module in German language for intermediate undergraduate students, which incorporates an element of CLIL","PeriodicalId":36036,"journal":{"name":"Teanga","volume":"419 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79517240","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}
TeangaPub Date : 2019-07-16DOI: 10.35903/teanga.v23i0.139
A. Simon
{"title":"Levels of motivation and confidence among first year university learners","authors":"A. Simon","doi":"10.35903/teanga.v23i0.139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v23i0.139","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores some motivational aspects of foreign language grammar learning. Subjects are Irish first-year university students of German with five years’ previous language learning experience. Findings are presented with regard to learners’ reaction to a dedicated grammar class which was designed in order to assist students in the transition from a primarily memory-based approach to language learning to a cognitive-analytical approach. Two cross-sectional sets of investigations were conducted, one at the beginning of the first semester and the other at the end of the second semester, in which both qualitative and quantitative elicitation instruments (interviews and questionnaires) were used. Results for the questionnaires and the follow-up interviews conducted at the end of semester two of year one reveal that learners reacted positively to the grammar programme and that confidence levels with regard to German grammar learning and usage had increased.","PeriodicalId":36036,"journal":{"name":"Teanga","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88353133","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}
TeangaPub Date : 2019-07-16DOI: 10.35903/teanga.v23i0.137
A. M. Lysaght
{"title":"Landeskunde: its role and functions in the Irish German-language classroom","authors":"A. M. Lysaght","doi":"10.35903/teanga.v23i0.137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v23i0.137","url":null,"abstract":"Landeskunde: its role and functions in the Irish German-language classroom ","PeriodicalId":36036,"journal":{"name":"Teanga","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87744720","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}
TeangaPub Date : 2019-07-16DOI: 10.35903/teanga.v23i0.138
C. Sosa
{"title":"Community Language Learning – a reappraisal","authors":"C. Sosa","doi":"10.35903/teanga.v23i0.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v23i0.138","url":null,"abstract":"Community Language Learning is a method developed by Charles Curran during the 1950s at Loyola University. As part of the Confluent Education movement it enjoyed a brief period of vogue until supplanted by the Communicative Approach with its more sophisticated views of language and the language acquisition process. This paper seeks to reappraise the main procedure of Community Language Learning as a learner-centred ‘task’ within a current, task-based approach, drawing on present-day definitions and views of second language acquisition. Based on empirical research using the task, learner attitudes are also explored.","PeriodicalId":36036,"journal":{"name":"Teanga","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84498319","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}
TeangaPub Date : 2019-07-16DOI: 10.35903/teanga.v23i0.142
A. King
{"title":"Writing in German as a foreign language: the impact of computer use on revision behaviour","authors":"A. King","doi":"10.35903/teanga.v23i0.142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35903/teanga.v23i0.142","url":null,"abstract":"The nature of writing and its interaction with the other language skills are examined, and approaches to teaching writing are presented. The use of word processing in the writing process is reviewed, and the positive and negative effects of word processing on writing are outlined. A study which was carried out to examine the impact of computer use on revision behaviour is described, and its findings are discussed. Recommendations are made regarding the use of word processing in the writing curriculum.","PeriodicalId":36036,"journal":{"name":"Teanga","volume":"279 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77115969","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}