UCC Research Profiles: emma.riordan@ucc.ie, German

Contact Details

Lecturer In German and Applied Linguistics
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Emma Riordan is lecturer in German and Applied Linguistics at University College Cork, Ireland where she teaches Intercultural Communication, research methods, language teaching methodology and aspects of linguistic theory. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin, and an MPhil in Teaching German as a Foreign Language and a BA Language and Cultural Studies from UCC. She has taught English language and cultural studies at the University of Magdeburg, Germany, German language and linguistics at UCC and lectured in German at Waterford Institute of Technology.

Her research interests include classroom discourse, target language use, language education policy, teacher education and Language for Specific Purposes. She is executive committee member of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics where she is administer on the Facebook account (https://www.facebook.com/Irish-Association-for-Applied-Linguistics-IRAAL-337541119774731/

) and also on the European Association for Applied Linguistics (https://www.facebook.com/AILAEurope/). Her Twitter handle is @EmmaTRiordan.

	Year	Publication
	(2011)	'Various lesson plans' Emma Riordan (2011) 'Various lesson plans' In: Grundy, Peter, Bociek, Hania & Parker, Kevin (eds). English through Art. London: Helbling. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2016)	'Language education for non-native speaker language teachers' Emma Riordan (2016) 'Language education for non-native speaker language teachers'. Teanga: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, (24) [Details]
	(2015)	'The policy and practice of teacher target language use in post-primary foreign language classrooms in Ireland' Emma Riordan (2015) 'The policy and practice of teacher target language use in post-primary foreign language classrooms in Ireland'. European Journal of Language Policy, :165-181 [Details]
	(2015)	'Factors affecting target language use in the post-primary classroom in Ireland' Emma Riordan (2015) 'Factors affecting target language use in the post-primary classroom in Ireland'. Germanistik In Ireland, 10 :109-125 [Details]

Unpublished Reports

	Year	Publication
	(2014)	Language support for post-primary language teachers: The example of German. Emma Riordan (2014) Language support for post-primary language teachers: The example of German. Unpublished Reports [Details]

Thesis/Dissertation

	Year	Publication
	(2014)	Language for Teaching Purposes: An analysis of the spoken language needs of non-native speaker language teachers. Emma Riordan (2014) Language for Teaching Purposes: An analysis of the spoken language needs of non-native speaker language teachers. Thesis/Dissertation [Details]

Other

	Year	Publication
	(2010)	Drinking with the Irish: Examining cultural stereotypes. Emma Riordan, Reinhold Wandel (2010) Drinking with the Irish: Examining cultural stereotypes. https://www.buhv.de/unterrichtsmaterial/sekundarstufe-ii/englisch-betrifft-uns.html: Other [Details]

Professional Activities

Honours and Awards

Year	Title	Awarding Body
2012	Travel Grant	Trinity Trust
2005	Boyle Scholarship in German Studies	German Department, UCC
2010	IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship	Irish Research Council
2011	Travel Grant	Trinity Trust
2006	Studentship	German Department, UCC

Professional Associations

	Association	Function	From / To
	Irish Association for Applied Linguistics	Executive Committee Member	20-NOV-15 /
	German Studies Association of Ireland	Secretary	19-NOV-16 /

Conference Contributions

	Year	Publication
	(2016)	Annual Conference of the German Studies Association of Ireland (GSAI), Emma Riordan (2016) Digilanguages; Language learning in a digital age. [Oral Presentation], Annual Conference of the German Studies Association of Ireland (GSAI), Dublin City University , 18-NOV-16 - 19-NOV-16. [Details]
	(2016)	Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics, Emma Riordan (2016) Native and non-native speaker language teachers: Who's worth more?. [Oral Presentation], Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics, Trinity College Dublin , 19-NOV-16 - 19-NOV-16. [Details]
	(2016)	Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics, Emma Riordan (2016) Executive committee member and panel chair. [Conference Organising Committee Member], Annual Conference of the Irish Association of Applied Linguistics, Trinity College Dublin , 19-NOV-16 - 19-NOV-16. [Details]
	(2016)	Annual Conference of the Association of German Studies (AGS), Emma Riordan (2016) The policy and practice of teacher target language use in post-primary German language classrooms in Ireland. [Oral Presentation], Annual Conference of the Association of German Studies (AGS), Newcastle University , 31-AUG-16 - 02-NOV-16. [Details]
	(2016)	AILA Europe Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics, Emma Riordan (2016) Communicative language teaching in the Irish context. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], AILA Europe Junior Researcher Meeting in Applied Linguistics, University of Tallinn, Estonia , 19-MAY-16 - 21-MAY-16. [Details]
	(2015)	40th Anniversary Conference Irish Association of Applied Linguistics, Emma Riordan (2015) Is communicative language teaching the right approach for post-primary modern language teaching in Ireland?. [Oral Presentation], 40th Anniversary Conference Irish Association of Applied Linguistics, Trinity College Dublin , 21-NOV-15 - 21-NOV-15. [Details]
	(2015)	Annual Conference of the German Studies Association of Ireland (GSAI), Emma Riordan (2015) Eliciting in the language classroom: Teachers’ use of open, closed, display and referential questions. [Oral Presentation], Annual Conference of the German Studies Association of Ireland (GSAI), NUI Galway , 13-NOV-15 - 14-NOV-15. [Details]

Education

Year	Institution	Qualification	Subject
2004	University College Cork	BA (Hons)	Language and Cultural Studies with German
2007	University College Cork	Master of Philosophy	Teaching German as a Foreign Language
2014	Trinity College Dublin	PHD	Applied Linguistics