Biography
Fiona Farr is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics. She is also Director of the CALS (Centre for Applied Language Studies) research centre, and Research Director in MLAL. Her key areas of expertise are teacher education, reflective practice, continuous professional development, applied corpus linguistics, and technology-enhanced language learning. She has been 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). She is co-editor (with Joan Cutting) of the EUP Textbooks in TESOL Series and co-editor (with Liam Murray) of the Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology (2016). Her new book 'Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education' (with Angela Farrell and Elaine Riordan) has been published in 2019 by EUP. She has recently 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 a large-scale national project funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning on 'Enhancing Digital Literacies for Language Learning and Teaching' (2016-2017). She is currently part of the project team for the EU-funded Shout4HE project, led by Cardiff Met University.
Research Interests
Spoken language corpora and their application; intervarietal comparative discourse analysis; Southern-Irish English; language teacher education/development, specifically teaching practice and feedback; language learning and technology
Publications
Book
Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education
Farr, F., Farrell, A and Riordan E.
Book Chapter
Prospective and practising teachers look backwards at the theory-practice divide through blogs and E-portfolios
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
TESOL Voices: Insider Accounts of Classroom LifePreservice Teacher Education
Introduction
Farr, F. and Murray, L.
Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology
Turn initiators in professional encounters: Teacher education discourse in an Irish university setting
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
Pragmatic Markers in Irish English
'I'm fine girl, and how are you?': the use of vocatives in spoken Irish-English
Murphy, B. and Farr, F.
New Perspectives on Irish English
Polish teenagers' integration into Irish secondary schools: language, culture, and support systems
Baumgart, J. and Farr, F.
Polish-Irish Encounters in the Old and New Europe (Reimagining Ireland).
Corpora for materials' development in language teacher education: underlying principles and useful data
Farr, F., Chambers, A. and O'Riordan, S.
Perspectives on Language Learning Materials Development
Conference Contribution
EuroCALL 2017
Farr, F. and Murray, L.
CALS Annual Research Day
Farr, F. and Murray, L.
EuoCALL 2016
Farr, F., Blin, F., McLoughlan, L. and Murray, L.
2nd International Conference on Higher Education Advances, HEAd'16
Farr, F. and Murray, L.
Paradigm Shigting in Applied Linguistics: New Theories and New Methods, IRAAL Annual Conference
Farr, F. and Murray, L.
Theory & Practice: Researching teaching and learning in higher education
Farr, F. and Murray, L.
CALS (Centre for Applied Language Studies) Research Day
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
EuroSoTL (European Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learnig)
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
EdTech 2015
Riordan, E. and Farr, F.
European Conference on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (EUROSOLT): Bridging Boundaries through the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Denny, E., O'Keeffe, A., Brosnan, G., Farr, F., Fitzgerald, M., Dowling, F
EuroCALL (European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning)
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
New Horizons for Reflective Practice
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
EuroCALL (European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning)
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
EuroCALL
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
British Association of Applied Linguistics
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
IVACS (Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies)
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
CALS (Centre for Applied Language Studies) Research Day
Chambers, A., Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
Supporting you supporting your ESL students
Baumgart, J. and Farr, F.
Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
British Association of Applied Linguistics
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
ISSP (Irish Social Sciences Platform)
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
Irish Social Sciences Platform
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics)
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
Translation, Technology and Autonomy in Language Teaching and Learning
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
EuroCALL (European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning)
Riordan, E. and Farr, F.
IVACS Symposium
Farr, F., Murray, L. and O'Shea, M.
BAAL/CUP (British Association for Applied Linguistics/Cambridge University Press) Seminar
Farr, F., Murray, L. and Riordan, E.
CAL (Computers and Learning)
Farr, F., Murray, L. and Riordan, E.
IRAAL Language Policy and Language Learning Conference
Baumgart, J. and Farr, F.
CAL (Computer-Assisted Learning)
Farr, F., Murray, L. and Riordan, E.
BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics)/CUP (Cambridge University Press) Applied Linguistics Seminar
Farr, F., Murray, L. and Riordan, E.
EuroCALL
Riordan, E. and Farr, F.
Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
IVACS (Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies)
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
Conference Publication
2nd International Conference on Higher Education Advances, HEAd'16
Farr, F. and Murray, L.
Peer Reviewed Journal
PENSER: A Data-Informed Reflective Practice Framework for Novice Teachers
Farr, F.; Farrell, A
The European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL
Tracing the reflective practices of student teachers in online modes
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
ReCALL journal
DOI: 10.1017/S0958344014000299
Students' engagement in reflective tasks: An investigation of interactive and non-interactive discourse corpora
Farr, F. and Riordan, E.
Classroom Discourse
DOI: 10.1080/19463014.2012.716622
Published Report
Research in progress: Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland.'
Chambers, A., Atkinson, D., Farr, F.
Research in progress: Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland.'
Chambers, A., Atkinson, D. and Farr, F.