Prof. Fiona Farr

Biography

Fiona Farr is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. She is also Director of the Centre for Applied Language Studies. Her key areas of expertise are teacher education, reflective practice, continuous professional development, applied corpus linguistics, and technology-enhanced language learning. She has published widely in high impact journals in her field and is author of Teaching Practice Feedback: an investigation of spoken and written modes (2011, Routledge) and Practice in TESOL (2015, Edinburgh University Press). Her most recent book Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education (with Angela Farrell and Elaine Riordan) appeared in 2019, and in 2023 her new co-authored book (with Angela Farrell) The Reflective Cycle of the Teaching Practicum will be published. She is co-editor (with Bróna Murphy) of the EUP Textbooks in TESOL Series, and is Associate Editor of the Journal Second Language Teacher Education. She is also co-editor (with Liam Murray) of the Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology (2016, 2nd edition under commission). She has been Visiting Research Scholar at Lancaster University where she was part of a large ESRC-funded research project ‘Corpus Approaches to Social Science'. She has also led and taken part in a number of national in international projects including Digilanguages (2016-2017) and Shout4HE (2018-2021). She is currently a partner on the Digital Humanities project 'Interactional Variation Online' (https://ivohub.com/).