Stephanie Oriordan@Ul.ie

Biography

University Teacher in French and Pedagogy at the University of Limerick.

My teaching repertoire is wide-ranging in the areas of French and francophone studies and general language teaching and learning studies. I teach French grammar, rhetoric, discourse genres, history of the French language, literature, film studies, translation, pedagogy, language policy, corpus linguistics in language teaching and learning. I am also a member of the teaching team in the UL social media for social broadening module.

My research interests fall mainly in the domains of applied corpus linguistics, socio-linguistics and education studies.

In 2015, I was a member of a team of colleagues led by Catherine jeanneau (Language Learning Hub) who was awarded the European Language label award for the UL peer-learning for languages project which has been running since 2012 and sees large numbers of international students volunteer their time to facilitate discussion groups in the Modern forein languages which are taught in UL namely: French, German, Japanese and Spanish.

Having firstly graduated with a Maitrise d'anglais langue et civilisation étrangère and a diploma in French as a foreign language studies from the Université de Haute-Bretagne Rennes II (France), I qualified as a secondary school teacher with a PGCE (Modern languages French and Spanish) from the University of Swansea Wales in 2000 and subsequently taught French at secondary school level in Ireland. I joined UL in 2001 as a French tutor and continued part-time teaching at secondary level for a number of years. In 2003, I graduated with a Masters of Arts in French studies (1st class Hons) from the University of Limerick. In the period October 2005 to January 2008, I undertook research on classroom discourse in French secondary level classes as a recipient of an IRCHSS scholarship. In 2008, I started supervising Student teachers preparing to become French teachers at secondary school level. I am currently University Teacher in French and Pedagogy at the University of Limerick.