Publications
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Language Learning in International Mobility Contexts
Funder: Language Learning Early Career Research Grant, Temple University Provost’s Summer Research Award and Grant-in-Aid, Temple University College of Liberal Arts Research Award How does successful foreign language development unfold in study abroad contexts? Dr Janire Zalbidea has led a series of complementary research studies focusing on this central question. Her projects have investigated issues…
Investigating the Production of English consonants /ʤ/,/ð/, /Ө/and/v/ by Hwaiti Bedouin and Hijazi Urban Saudi Learners of English at Tabuk university
Funder: Saudi Cultural Bureau My thesis focuses on second language acquisition. It investigates the cross-linguistic influence on the production of English consonants by Saudi L2 Learners of English speaking the Hwaiti and Hijazi dialects in Tabuk University, highlighting the effect of L1 dialectal variation on the acquisition of L2 consonant sounds.
Gender Equality in Language Studies (GELS)
Funder: Higher Education Authority of Ireland (HEA) Website: https://genderequalitylanguages.ie/ Currently, Dr Earls is Principal Investigator of the Gender Equality in Language Studies (GELS) project, a national, inter-institutional, collaborative research project partnering Maynooth University (Lead) with Trinity College Dublin, University of Limerick and Munster Technological University. Funded by the Higher Education Authority of Ireland’s EDI Enhancement Fund,…
Higher Education Language Educator Competences (HELECs), 2021-2022
Funder: National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (HEA) Dr Earls was Lead Partner Institution of the Higher Education Language Educator Competences (HELECs) project, a national, inter-institutional, collaborative research project partnering University College Cork (PI) with Maynooth University (Lead Partner), Dublin City University and Waterford Institute of Technology. Funded by…
Cross-linguistic influence in Spanish-English bilingual speakers in the US and Spanish-Catalan bilinguals in Minorca, Spain
Funders: U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF); University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund; University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Rothman Summer Fellowships in the Humanities Dr de Prada Pérez collected data through sociolinguistic interviews in three sites: Minorca, Spain (N = 56), Gainesville, FL…
Code-switching in Spanish-English bilinguals
Funders: University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere Rothman Summer Fellowships in the Humanities; Language Learning Dr de Prada Pérez’s collaborative work (with undergraduate students Nick Feroce, Andrea Hernández, and Lilian Kennedy and postgraduate students Osmer Balam, Nofiya Denbaum, and Adriana Ojeda) uses naturalistic and experimental methods to elicit codeswitching and…
Virtual Exchanges with Native Speakers
Funders: Maynooth University Research Development Seed Fund; Center for Teaching and Learning Spark Funding, Center for Teaching and Learning Teaching Fellowship This project examines the effect that Virtual Exchanges with native speakers have on the linguistic development of Spanish second-language learners. Although previous research mentions students perceived improvement in their linguistic skills, to the best…