Barbara Geraghty is lecturer in Japanese in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick and is a member of the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS). She is a member of the National Steering Committee of the Post-Primary Languages Initiative. Her research interests include motivation and affect in language learning, computer-assisted language learning, language and culture and Okinawan literature.
Research Interests
Japanese Language; Japanese Literature; Motivation in Foreign Language Acquisition; Materials development, Migration
Professional Activities
Award
2013 - Japanese Ambassador's Commendation
2007 - European Language Label
2002 - University of Limerick Excellence in Teaching Award
Employment
2007 University of Central Lancaster Department of Languages - External Examiner for Japanese
Committee
2004 Royal Irish Academy Committee on Modern Languages, Literature and Culture,
1899 Steering Committee Post-Primary Languages Initiative,
Association
2001 Member, Japanese Language Teachers of Ireland
1999 Member, British Association of Teachers of Japanese
Education
1999 University of Sheffield - M.A.
1988 National University of Ireland, Galway - Master of Arts
Language
Japanese
Outreach
I acted as a volunteer interpreter for the Japanese team during the pre-event programme for the Special Olympics in Ireland in 2003.
Barbara Geraghty and Jean E Conacher (2014) Conclusion.
London and New York : Bloomsbury Academic Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration :222-224
Jean E Conacher and Barbara Geraghty (2014) Migration and Contact: Community and Individual Experience.
London and New York : Bloomsbury Academic Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration :167-170
Barbara Geraghty and Jean E Conacher (2014) Language Learning: Communicating in the Contact Zone.
New York and London : Bloomsbury Academic Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration :83-87
Jean E Conacher and Barbara Geraghty (2014) Migration and Language Contact.
London and New York : Bloomsbury Academic Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration :19-22
Barbara Geraghty and Jean E Conacherc (2014) Introduction: Approaching Migration, Intercultural Contact and Language Learning,.
London and New York : Bloomsbury Academic Intercultural Contact, Language Learning and Migration :1-18
Geraghty, Barbara (2010) 'The dangers of cosmopolitanism: Okinawa, China and the United States in Ôshiro Tatsuhiro's Cocktail Party'.
Bern : Peter Lang The cause of cosmopolitanism: dispositions, models transformations :217-230
Marcus-Quinn, A; Geraghty, B (2009) Design and development of a digital learning resource to deliver online content to teach Japanese syllabaries.
Hershey, Pennsylvania : IGI Publishing Critical Design and Effective Tools for E-Learning in Higher Education: Theory into Practice
Geraghty, B. (2004) "�Amusing, terrifying and strange�: Culture and the Teaching of Japanese as a Foreign Language".
Readings in the Teaching of Culture :35-39
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Geraghty, B. (2007) 32nd Research Symposium Royal Irish Academy's Committee for Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies "In/Difference: Current and Historical Perspectives on Cultures in Contact.
