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Muiris ÓLaoire PhD

Muiris OLaoire Phd

Muiris ÓLaoire
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Technology Tralee
Dromtacker
Tralee,
Co Kerry
Ireland
T: +353-(0)1-7145600

F: +353-(0)1-7145600
muiris.olaoire@staff.ittralee.ie



Publications

His publications appear in the Language Policy, Current Issues in Language and Society, Language Awareness International Journal of the Sociology of Language, the Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier Science) and Current Issues in Language Planning

He guest edited two volumes of the International Journal of Multilingualism.


Books

Author

Year of Publication

Publication Title

Muiris ÓLaoire

1999

Athbheochan na hEabhraise: Ceacht don Ghaeilge? (The Revival of Hebrew: A Lesson for Irish?)
Dublin: An Clóchomhar.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2004

Siollabais Chumarsáide na Gaeilge (A Communicative Syllabus for Irish)
Dublin: An Aimsir Óg

Muiris ÓLaoire

2004

From L2 to L3/L4: A Study of Learners’ Metalinguistic Awareness after 13 years of Learning Irish
CLCS Occasional Paper 64. Trinity College Dublin:CLCS.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2005

Multilingualism in Educational Settings.
Hohengehren (Germany) Schneiders Verlag

Muiris ÓLaoire
(co-edited with Anne Gallagher)

2006

Language Education in Ireland: Current Practice and Future Needs.
AERA Dublin: IRAAL.

Muiris ÓLaoire
(with L. Aronin)

forthcoming

Multilingualism: A Textbook
Edinburgh University Press

Editorship of Journals

Muiris ÓLaoire (with Helen Ó Murchú)

2000

Teagasc na Gaeilge 7 (The Teaching of Irish)

Muiris ÓLaoire (with Helen Ó Murchú)

2005

Teagasc na Gaeilge 8 (The Teaching of Irish)

Muiris ÓLaoire (with Nancy Stenson)

2005

The Journal of Celtic Language Learning (USA and Canada) Issues 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2005

Guest Editor of International Journal of Multilingualism, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2006

Guest Editor of Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht 11, 1 (on-line)

Muiris ÓLaoire

2006

Guest Editor of International Journal of Multilingualism, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.

Journal Articles

Muiris ÓLaoire

1999

Learning Irish for participation in the Irish language speech community outside the Gaeltacht Journal of Celtic Language Learning 5 (Refereed).

Muiris ÓLaoire (with M. Burke and M. Haslam)

2000

From L2 to L3/L4 An investigation of learners’ metalinguistic awareness and learner strategies Teangeolas 38/39.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2000

Teagasc na Gaeilge: Cén Treo Anois? (New directions in the teaching of Irish) Teagasc na Gaeilge 7 (The Teaching of Irish) 32-42

Muiris ÓLaoire

2000

The Effect of bilingualism on learners' self-awareness.
Celtic Languages and the New Millenium Proceedings of Conference of Celtic Language Teachers, University of Limerick. 111-117

Muiris ÓLaoire

2002

Athbheochan na hEabhraise: Ceacht don Ghaeilge? (The Revival of Hebrew: A Lesson for Irish?) Feasta January and February.

Muiris ÓLaoire (Co-author with M. Coady)

2000

Dilemmas of language policy and practice in education: Gaelscoileanna in the Republic of Ireland. Language Policy 1 (2) (Kluwer). 143-158.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2001

An Ghaeilge san oideachas: Polasaí, pleanáil agus teagasc (Irish in Education: Policy, planning and pedagogy Léachtaí Cholm Chille XXXIII 74-104.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2002

Siollabais ag an Dara Leibhéal: Cúlra agus Cur Chuige (Syllabus Definition at Secondary Level for Irish) Teagasc na Gaeilge 8 15-22.

Muiris ÓLaoire (with Larissa Aronin)

2003

Multilingual students’ awareness of their language teacher’s other Languages in Language Awareness 12:3&4 204-219.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2004

Múineadh agus Tástáil na Litríochta (The teaching and assessment of literature) Teagasc na Gaeilge 8 144-156.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2005

Three languages in the schools in Ireland in International Journal of the Sociology of Language 171 95-115.

Singleton, D & Ó Laoire, M.

2006

La psychotypologie et le « facteur de la L2 »dans l’interaction interlexicale: une analyse de l’influence de l’anglais et du gaélique sur le français des apprenants. in Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère 23. 101-117.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2006

Irish language revival or survival in a multilcultural society in TUI Congress Journal: All The Children 1916-2006. 27-31

Muiris ÓLaoire

2007

Anglais et irlandais: hybridité dans un espace de transition. Droits et Cultures 54. 157-176.

Book Chapters

Muiris ÓLaoire

2001

Minority Language Broadcasting: A Response in Minority Language Broadcasting CILS, (pp. 63-68) Multilingual Matters, Clevedon.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2001

Balanced Bilingual and English Dominant Learners of L3 in Ireland. In Jasone Cenoz, Britta Hufeisen, Ulrike Jessner (eds.) Looking beyond second language acquisition Studies in tri- and Multilingualism (pp.153- 160) Tübingen: Stauffenburg

Muiris ÓLaoire

2002

Pleanáil agus Athbheochan Teanga: Scéal na hEabhraise (Language planning and revitalization) in
R. Ó hUiginn R, B Ó Catháin (eds.) Béalra (pp.35-60) An Sagart: Ma Nuad.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2004

Exploring Multilingualism in Cultural Contexts: Towards a notion of Multilinguality (with Larissa Aronin), in C. Hoffmann and Jehannes Ytsma (eds.) Trilingualism in Family, School and Community (pp. 11-29) Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2004

Language policy and practice in the classroom in Language in the Primary School. (pp. 93-100) Dublin: INTO.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2004

Cultural awareness in the Irish language classroom: an overview in M. Smith (ed.) Readings in the Teaching of Culture. (pp.9-14) Dublin: ITÉ.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2004

L3 in Ireland: A preliminary study of learners’ metalinguistic awareness in B.Hufeisen, B. R. Fouser (eds.) Introductory Readings in L3. (pp.47-54) Tubingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2004

Diglossic pattering in all-Irish schools? The case of Gaelscoileanna in the Republic of Ireland (with Maria Coady) in: M.Lorenzo Suárez, Fernando Ramallo, Xoan Paulo Rodriguez-Yánez (eds.) Bilingual Socialization and Bilingual Language Acquisition. (pp.465-481) Vigo: Servizo de Publicacións de la Universidade de Vigo

Muiris ÓLaoire

2005

An Overview of Bilingualism and Immersion Education in Ireland: Complexity and Change in Xoan Paulo Rodriguez-Yanez (ed.) Bilingualism and Education: From Family to School. (pp. 275-82)Munich: Lincom Europa.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2005

Bilingualism in School Settings in Ireland: Perspectives on the Irish L2 Curriculum in J. Cohen, K. McAlister, K.Rolstad, J. MacSwan. (eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2005

New Speech Communities in Ireland: Competitors or Partners for Irish Gaelic? In S. May, M. Franken, R. Barnard (eds.), LED2003: Refereed Conference Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language,Education and Diversity. Hamilton: Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research, University of Waikato

Muiris ÓLaoire

2005

Múineadh teangacha ag an dara leibhéal: I dTreo an lteangachais, in 1+ 1+1: Ceist na dTeangacha I gCóras Oideachais na hÉireann. (Towards multilingualism: Teaching languages at second level) (pp.21-35) Baile Átha Cliath: Conradh na Gaeilge.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2006

Pyschotypology and the L2 factor (with David Singleton) in M. Bendsten et al (eds.) Sprak larade och utbilding i sikte. (pp.191—206) Abo Akademi, Finland.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2006

13-16 Years learning Irish as L2: A challenge for a linear concept of progression in T. Harden et al (eds.) The Concept of Progression in the Teaching and Learning of Foreign Languages. (pp.111-126) Oxford: Peter Lang.

Muiris ÓLaoire (with David Singleton)

2006

Pyschotypologie et facteur L2 dans l’influence translexicale in : AILE (Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère) 24 101-117.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2007

Language use and language attitudes in Ireland in D. Lasagabaster and A. Huguet (eds) Language Use and Attitudes. (pp.164- 84). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters

Muiris ÓLaoire

2008

The language situation in Ireland: An update. In R. B. Kaplan and R.B. Baldauf Jr. (eds.) Language Planning and Policy. Europe Vol 3: The Baltic States, Ireland and Italy. (pp.164-184) Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2008

Education for participation in a bilingual or multilingual society? Challenging the power balance between English and Irish (Gaelic) and other minority languages in Ireland. In C.Hélot and A.M de Mejía (eds.) Forging Multilingual Spaces. Integrated Perspectives on Majority and Minority Bilingual Education. (pp. 256-264) Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Muiris ÓLaoire with
David Lasagabaster

2008

Attitudes towards trilingualism: a comparison between the Basque and Irish contexts. Teanga 22, 132-147.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2008

Indigenous language revitalization and globalization. In Te Kaharoa 1 (1) 203-215.

Muiris ÓLaoire

2009

Siollabas na Gaeilge ar an dara leibhéal: Impleachtaí don tríú leibhéal. In Ní Fhrighil, F and M. Nic Eoin (2009) (eds) Ó Theagasc Teanga go Sealbhú Teanga (pp. 88-121) Dublin: Cois Life.

Muiris ÓLaoire
with Ted Glynn and Mere Berryman]

2009

Transformative Pedagogy and Language Learning in Maori and Irish Contexts. Language Education and Diversity. Refereed Proceedings. University of Waikato, New Zealand.

Muiris ÓLaoire

(forthcoming)

Out of the Post-Colonial and into the Globalised: Language Revitalisation in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Éire (Ireland) The Ethnographies: Indigenous Imagination and Expression and will be published by Orient BlackSwan in New Delhi.

Muiris ÓLaoire
with Ted Glynn and Mere Berryman]

(forthcoming)

Transformative Pedagogy and Language Learning in Minority Language Contexts: The case of Māori in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Journal of Innovation in Language Learning. Routledge.

Encyclopedia/Reference Article

Muiris ÓLaoire

2005

Language Education for Language Revival in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition. Elsevier

Presentations 2009

[with Smita Sinha] Implementing a language policy in education for endangered and minority languages: Diagnosing the challenge for linguistic rights at The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies at the Basha Centre, Baroda & Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh Gugarat, India  January 2009


“All for one and one for all!” New paradigms and new challenges for a languages-in education policy in Ireland  Plenary Talk at International Conference Language Policy and Language Learning: New Paradigms and New Challenges University of Limerick  June 2009


So can a language policy help? International Conference Language Policy and Language Learning: New Paradigms and New Challenges University of Limerick  June 2009

The teaching of Chinese and a languages-in-education policy. Inaugural Conference of Chinese Teachers Association in UCC, May 2009

[with Clare Rigg] The Policy Process in Language Education- A Policy Trajectory Approach International Conference Language Policy and Language Learning: New Paradigms and New Challenges University of Limerick  June 2009


[with Kristin Brogan] The influence of L2 on L3 in proficiency and intercultural developments during the year abroad. International Conference on Multilingualism Bolzano, Italy, September 2009.

[with Smita Sinha] The challenge of diversity: Implementing a language education policy  [LEP] in multilingual contexts .International Conference on Multilingualism Bolzano, Italy, September 2009.

[with Clare Rigg and Vasiliki Georgiu] The Policy Practice Gap – insights from policy discourse & institutional theory: case study of the Irish Official Languages Act (2003). International Conference Multilingualism from Below. University of Antwerp, September 2009.


Professional Body Membership

President IRAAL (Irish Association of Applied Linguistics)    2001-2004.

Member of Irish Country Profile Authoring Group on
Language Policy Council of Europe

Chair of National Jury European Award for Languages 
(The Language Label) 2003- present.

Member of Modern Languages Committee, RIA (Royal Irish Academy).

Member of Working Party on the Humanities and Social Sciences RIA (Royal Irish Academy).

International Conference Organising Committee EUROSLA UCC September 2009


Fellowships

IRCHSS Government of Ireland Post-doctoral Research
Fellowship. Monograph on Language Policy and Language
Planning (see Section 4.4) 2003.

Honorary Fellow  Te Mata o te Tau -Academy for Māori
Research and Fellowship 2006

Williams Evans Visiting Fellow, Otago University New
Zealand. 2007