Currently, I teach language and intercultural studies to students on degree and foundation programmes and also supervise doctoral students whose research approach is interdisciplinary
I have worked in Europe, the Middle East and Southern Africa tea
...MoreCurrently, I teach language and intercultural studies to students on degree and foundation programmes and also supervise doctoral students whose research approach is interdisciplinary.
I have worked in Europe, the Middle East and Southern Africa teaching and lecturing in English. Recently, I was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wuhan in China.
My interdisciplinary research developed from observation of adult learners of English who had come to Ireland fron Vietnam and China as part of family reunification. From an applied linguistic approach I moved to a more interdisciplinary approach rooted in an intercultural framework to research in the Vietnamese community in Ireland.
My interests at present are: relationships between language, culture and society, second language learning, culture and academic discourse, bilingualism, intercultural marginality, language planning in multicultural societies, citizenship and identity in multicultural societies, literatures in English,inclusion in education
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Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations
