Áine Furlong

Áine Furlong
 
Surname
Furlong
First name
Áine
Address for correspondence
Nationality
French/Irish
Affiliation with educational networks
  • IRAAL (Irish Association for Applied Linguistics), member
  • IAM (International Association for Multilingualism), member
  • AFA (Association du Français Appliqué), member
  • CLIL@WIT research and development group, co-founder and team leader
Work information
Occupation or position currently held
Lecturer in language education, intercultural communication, and French
Name of employer
Waterford Institute of Technology
Country of employment
Ireland
Education and training
Relevant qualifications or training
Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Trinity College, Dublin
Languages of communication
Mother tongues
French, English
Other languages of communication
German, Irish, Spanish
Contribution to the project
Professional expertise:
  • Project leader with the Modern Languages in Primary Schools Initiative where teacher training and materials development focused on plurilingual and content-based activities (1998-2002).
  • Course leader for MA in Second Language Learning and Teaching.
  • Partner the LICI project(Language in Content Instruction - Lingua 2- 229850-CP-1-2006-1FI-LINGUA-L2 ).
  • LEA project participant with additional contribution on the relationship between creativity and plurilingualism/culturalism (ECML).
  • CLIL Matrix project participant with special contribution on the central role of language teaching/learning methodologies in CLIL (ECML).
Additional expertise in Waterford Institute of Technology: online Portfolio development with an Intercultural dimension; LOLIPOP Lingua 2 project, 116998-CP-1-2004-1-IE-LINGUA_L2.
Role in the project team:
  • Dissemination of the results of the project through IRAAL, IAM, AFA, Education/Teachers' Centres, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, and other professional networks in Ireland.
  • Teacher training expertise at primary, secondary, and third level for content-based teaching, language awareness, and technology in language education.
  • Expertise in the development of content-based and plurilingual didactic materials for French and English-speaking teachers and learners (see article).
  • Expertise in applied linguistics.
  • Experience with other European projects: LEA, CLIL Matrix, LICI.
  • Teamwork and team management experience.