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Biography

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

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Publications

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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]

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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]

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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]

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ANET/COS

	Year	Publication
	(2021)	Why Study Languages?. Craig Neville; (2021) Why Study Languages?. ANET/COS [DOI] [Details]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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Professional Activities

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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	/

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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]

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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 /

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Journal Activities

	Journal	Role	To / From
	Hispania	Guest Editor	01-FEB-22 -
	Journal Of Spanish Language Teaching	Co-Editor	01-JAN-19 -

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Teaching Activities

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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.

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Current Postgraduate Students

	Student	Degree Type
	Gómez Mireia	Doctoral Degree

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Research Information

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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