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I am a lecturer in Education with a specialism in teaching students with English as an Additional Language (EAL), languages education, CLIL, pedagogical applied translation, disciplinary literacies, multi-/plui-lingualism and minority student identities, heritage language education, family language planning and sociolinguistics of education. I have a decade of experience as a classroom practitioner, middle and senior leader in challenging, urban educational settings and am passionate about addressing educational disadvantage and enhancing social mobility through education. I am also passionate about promoting the minority intersectional student voice and exploring ways in which the multifaceted identities of students can be represented and embodied in the school context and in curricula. I am also interested in decolonisation of not only curricula but also teaching practice in the languages classroom. I teach on a range of programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level and am interested in collaborating with researchers, practitioners and school communities to develop research and practice-driven results for challenges in educational contexts.
Research Interests
My research interests centre around the following themes:
- English as an Additional Language in all educational settings but, in particular, post-Primary.
- Educational sociolinguistics, multi-/pluri-/trans-lingualism as phenomenon and practice
- Heritage Language Education and family language planning
- Languages education: pedagogies and practice (including CLIL in non-ESL contexts)
- intersectional approaches to understanding minority student identities in school communities and how these inform practice.
- Decolonisation of curricula and language teacher education
- Corpus-based approaches to languages education
- Pedagogical audiovisual translation.
Research Grants
| | Project | Funding
Body | Start Date | End Date | Award |
|---|
| AHGBI Travel Scholarship | | 01-APR-18 | 01-APR-18 | |
| Translatorship and Performativity in Translation | | 01-JUL-18 | 01-JUN-19 | |
| Teacher and Learning Forum Seminar Series | | 01-DEC-19 | 01-DEC-19 | |
| Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship | | 01-OCT-17 | 01-SEP-20 | |
| To what extent has the role of dubbing in Cataluna contributed to the promotion of the linguistic standard: a diachronic corpus-based approach. | | 01-NOV-18 | | |
| BAI Media Award | | 01-APR-18 | 01-APR-18 | |
| CASILAC UCC Postgraduate Award | | 01-SEP-17 | 01-APR-18 | |
| Award for Outstanding Performance in MA Thesis | | 01-SEP-15 | 01-SEP-15 | |
Publications
Books
| | Year | Publication |
|---|
| (2023) | A New Learning Grammar of Spanish.
Dr Javier Muñoz Basols Dr Craig Neville (2023) A New Learning Grammar of Spanish. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. [Details] |
| (2023) | Spanish Grammar in Context.
Dr Javier Muñoz-Basols Dr Craig Neville (2023) Spanish Grammar in Context. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| | Year | Publication |
|---|
| (2023) | 'Developing critical decolonial awareness and reflection in language teachers at post-primary level: empowering student language teachers as agents of change'
Craig Neville (2023) 'Developing critical decolonial awareness and reflection in language teachers at post-primary level: empowering student language teachers as agents of change'. Irish Educational Studies, 0 (0):1-21 [DOI] [Details] |
| (2019) | 'To what extent has the role of dubbing contributed to the promotion of the linguistic standard in Galicia: a diachronic, corpus-based approach'
Craig Neville (2019) 'To what extent has the role of dubbing contributed to the promotion of the linguistic standard in Galicia: a diachronic, corpus-based approach'. Galicia 21, [Details] |
Published Reports
| | Year | Publication |
|---|
| (2023) | Demolingüística del español en el Reino Unido e Irlanda.
Dr Javier Muñoz Basols; Dr Lucía Pintado Gutierrez; Dr Mara Fuentes; Dr Carlos Soler Montes (2023) Demolingüística del español en el Reino Unido e Irlanda. Instituto Cervantes; Universidad de Heidelberg; Universidad de Zurich, Spain. [Details] |
| (2019) | AICLE: nuestra primera inmersión.
Craig Neville (2019) AICLE: nuestra primera inmersión. Consejería de Educación, España, United Kingdom and Ireland. [Details] |
ANET/COS
| | Year | Publication |
|---|
| (2021) | Why Study Languages?.
Craig Neville; (2021) Why Study Languages?. ANET/COS [DOI] [Details] |
Thesis/Dissertation
| | Year | Publication |
|---|
| (2023) | A comparative, diachronic study of television dubbing in Galicia and Catalonia (1983-2007).
Craig Neville (2023) A comparative, diachronic study of television dubbing in Galicia and Catalonia (1983-2007). Cork: Thesis/Dissertation [DOI] [Details] |
Reviews
| | Year | Publication |
|---|
| (2019) | Iveson, Mandie. Language Attitudes, National Identity and Migration in Catalonia: â¿¿What the Women Have to Sayâ¿¿ (Sussex Academic Press, 2019), 244 pp. ISBN: 24681097531.
Craig Neville (2019) Iveson, Mandie. Language Attitudes, National Identity and Migration in Catalonia: â¿¿What the Women Have to Sayâ¿¿ (Sussex Academic Press, 2019), 244 pp. ISBN: 24681097531. Reviews [Details] |
Data set
| | Year | Publication |
|---|
| (2023) | An explorative study into the attitudes, skills, and knowledge of primary and post-Primary teachers in relation to the provision for students with English as an Additional Language (EAL).
Craig Neville (2023) An explorative study into the attitudes, skills, and knowledge of primary and post-Primary teachers in relation to the provision for students with English as an Additional Language (EAL). Data set [DOI] [Details] |
Professional Activities
Professional Associations
| | Association | Function | From / To |
|---|
| American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese | Member | / |
| Teaching Council of Ireland | Registered post-Primary Teacher (Route 2) | / |
| Anglo Catalan Society | Full Member | / |
| Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland | Full Member | / |
| Irish Association for Applied Linguistics | Member | / |
| English language Support Teachers' Association of Ireland | Member | / |
Conference Contributions
| | Year | Publication |
|---|
| (2022) | II Symposium Spanish Teachers in Ireland: Current Directions & New Perspectives,
Séana Ryan, Juan Manuel Espinosa, Craig Neville & Ana Alonso (2022) his 2-day symposium brought together educators from different institutions and organizations that teach Spanish in Ireland to host as many teachers/professionals/academics of Spanish as possible in one place. [Visiting Critic], II Symposium Spanish Teachers in Ireland: Current Directions & New Perspectives, Online (MTU/WIT/UCC/UG) , 09-JUN-22 - 10-JUN-22. [Details] |
| (2022) | English as an Additional Language and beyond,
Craig Neville (2022) Short workshop and introduction to language acquisition and EAL in the primary and secondary contexts. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], English as an Additional Language and beyond, Online . [Details] |
Committees
| | Committee | Function | From / To |
|---|
| New Avenues to Teaching Steering Committee | Steering Committee Member | 2022 / |
| Communications Committee (School of Education) | Member | 2021 / |
| Inclusive Outreach through Translation Steering Committee | Member | 2021 / |
Employment
| | Employer | Position | From / To |
|---|
| University College Cork | Assistant Lecturer | 09-JAN-17 / 31-AUG-21 |
| University College Cork | Lecturer in Education | 01-SEP-21 / |
| Parliament Hill School | Head of MFL and EAL | 01-APR-12 / 31-DEC-16 |
| Post Primary Languages Ireland | Education Officer | 01-JAN-19 / 31-DEC-20 |
| The Helena Romanes School | Head of Spanish and EAL | 01-JUN-07 / 30-MAR-12 |
Education
| | Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject |
|---|
| 2007 | University of Greenwich | Postgraduate Certificate of Education | French and Spanish (Secondary) |
| 2006 | University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex College) | MA (Cantab) | Modern and Medieval Languages |
| 2022 | University College Cork | PhD | Hispanic Studies |
| 2015 | University of Portsmouth | MA | Translation Studies |
Languages
| | Language | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|
| French | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| Spanish | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| Portuguese | Functional | Functional | Functional |
| Gallego | Fluent | Functional | Functional |
| Catalan | Fluent | Fluent | Functional |
Outreach Activities
| | Description |
|---|
|
To respond to the release of the new Primary Languages Curriculum Framework (2023), this small research groups aims to support teachers in Bandon, Co. Cork to implement (foreign) language teaching in a sustainable way. |
Journal Activities
| | Journal | Role | To / From |
|---|
| Hispania | Guest Editor | 01-FEB-22 - |
| Journal Of Spanish Language Teaching | Co-Editor | 01-JAN-19 - |
Teaching Activities
Teaching Interests
I teach on a variety of courses in Education including Spanish pedagogies at undergraduate and postgraduate level and EAL education at postgraduate level. In the past, I have also taught Spanish to beginners, theoretical and practical approaches to (Audiovisual) Translation Studies. I am currently coordinator for the Professional Research Paper (PRP) during the second year of the Professional Masters in Education (PME)
Recent Postgraduates
| | Graduation Year | Student Name | Institution | Degree Type | Thesis Title |
|---|
| 2022 | Sinéad Elliffe | University College Cork | M.Ed. | n exploration of a focused approach to the teaching of oral language in a DEIS primary school. |
| 2023 | Leonie Wallace | University College Cork | | To critically investigate the experience and stories of learners who have EAL, in a post-primary school, to identify how we can improve policies and practice. |
| 2022 | Siobhán O'Regan | University College Cork | M.Ed. | An exploration of how explicit instruction of metacognitive strategies deployed through inclusive pedagogy can support online research and comprehension of digital texts in the primary classroom. |
Current Postgraduate Students
| | Student | Degree Type |
|---|
| Gómez Mireia | Doctoral Degree |
Research Information
External Collaborators
| | Name | Organisation / Institute | Country |
|---|
| Dr Lucía Pintado Gutierrez | Dublin City University | IRELAND |
| Dr Ute Schmidt | University of Vienna | AUSTRIA |
| Dr Carlos Soler Montes | University of Edinburgh | SCOTLAND |
| Dr Mara Fuentes Gutierrez | Open University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Javier Muñoz-Basols | University of Oxford | UNITED KINGDOM |
