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

Books

  Year Publication
(2025) A New Learning Grammar of Spanish.
Dr Javier Muñoz Basols Dr Craig Neville (2025) A New Learning Grammar of Spanish. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. [Details]
(2025) Spanish Grammar in Context.
Dr Javier Muñoz-Basols Dr Craig Neville (2025) 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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 [ Publisher's Version] [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 Associations

  Association Function From / To
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese Member 01-JAN-23 /
Teaching Council of Ireland Registered post-Primary Teacher (Route 2) 04-APR-20 /
Anglo Catalan Society Full Member 01-JAN-17 /
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Full Member 01-JAN-17 /

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 /
Community Engagement & Communications Committee Member 2021 /
Inclusive Outreach through Translation Steering Committee Member 2021 / 2022

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 Interests

I teach on a variety of courses in Education including L2 Language 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 of the Postgraduate Diploma in English as an Additional Language. 

Modules taught 

Professional Masters of Education 
ED6313 The Teaching of a Second Language 1A
ED6314 The Teaching of a Second Language 1B
ED6327 The Teaching of Irish 
ED6359 PME Professional Research Paper  (Module Coordinator: AY 2021-2022)
ED6361 Specialist Subject Pedagogies 2
ED6332 School Placement: Research and Professional Experience Portfolio B  (Tutor for MFL)

Masters in Education
ED6078 EAL, Inclusion and the plurilingual classroom (Module Coordinator) 
ED6035 Dissertation in Education (Research Supervisor) 

BEd Gaeilge 
ED3402 Teaching of Modern Languages II
ED2402 Teaching of Modern Languages I    (Tutor for French and Spanish)

Postgraduate Diploma in English as an Additional Language  (Course Coordinator) 
ED6701 Practice-Based Theories, Concepts and Approaches in EAL   (Module Coordinator) 
ED6702 Developing Plurilingual Competence and Pluriliteracies in Emergent Bilinguals (Module Coordinator) 
ED6703 Plurilingual Competence and Pluriliteracies in Advancing Bilinguals (Module Coordinator) 
ED6704 Developing Inclusive Plurilingual/Cultural Provision in Professional Settings

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

External Collaborators

  Name Organisation / Institute Country
Dr Lucía Pintado Gutierrez Dublin City University IRELAND
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