Biography

Fiona Farr is Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland, where she is Director of the Centre for Applied Language Studies. From 2013 to 2018, she was Dean of Teaching and Learning at UL, and, from 2008 to 2011, she was Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She is also Adjunct Professor at INN, Hamar, Norway. 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) , Practice in TESOL (2015, Edinburgh University Press), Social Interaction in Language Teacher Education (2019, Edinburgh University Press, with Farrell and Riordan), and The Reflective Cycle of the Teaching Practicum (2023, Equinox, with Farrell). 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/).

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

Peer Reviewed Journals

2022

Moving beyond the formal: Developing significant networks and conversations in higher education: reflections from an interdisciplinary European project team

Beauchamp, G., Chapman, S., Risquez, A., Becaas, S., Ellis, C., Empsen, M., Farr, F., Hoskins, L., Hustinx, W., Murray, L., Palmaers, S., Spain, S., Timus, N., White, M., Whyte, S. and Young, N. (2022) Moving beyond the formal: Developing significant networks and conversations in higher education: reflections from an interdisciplinary European project team. Taylor & Francis Online Teaching In Higher Education

Books

Book Chapters

2024

Multi-modal Considerations for Social Media Discourse Analysis

Fitzgerald, C., Mark, G., O'Keeffe, A., Knight, D., McNamara, J., Adolphs, S., Cowan, B., Palma, T. F., Farr, F., & Peraldi, S. (2024) Multi-modal Considerations for Social Media Discourse Analysis . London : Bloomsbury Linguistics across Disciplinary Borders: The March of Data :187-212

2016

Introduction

Farr, F. and Murray, L. (2016) Introduction. London and New York : Routledge Routledge Handbook of Language Learning and Technology

Edited Books

Other Journals

Conference Publications

Conference Contributions

2021

AAAL

Farr, F. (2021) AAAL.

2019

IRAAL

Farr, F. (2019) IRAAL.

2012

MATSDA

Chambers, A. and Farr, F. (2012) MATSDA.

Published Reports

Editorials

Book Reviews

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Other Publications