Research Interests

• CALL
• CALL for Minorty and Endangered Languages
• CALL for Irish
• CALL for Nawat
• NLP techniques in CALL
• CALL normalisation
• Software Engineering and CALL
• CALL in non-traditional contexts
• CAL
• CAI/CAL (Computer Assisted Instruction/Computer Assisted Learning)
• CAL in the primary school context (maths)
• CAL in the university context
• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • HCI for children
  • HCI in the Primary School
  • User Modelling
• User-Centered Design
• Language, Socio-Cultural Factors and Learning
  • Socio-cultural factors and Irish
  • Socio-cultural factors and Endangered Languages

Research Awards

2002 Enterprise Ireland Basic Research Award, Integrating Techniques from Computational Linguistics into CALL (with Prof. Josef van Genabith - 160,000 Euro)
2002 Albert College Fellowship Award (10,000 Euro)
2002 LACUS (Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States) - Best Pre-Doctoral Paper
2002 EUROCALL Research Awards (runner-up)

Resources developed

• language learning courseware for Nawat.
  • in English
  • in Spanish
• NLP/CALL resources for Irish (mainly for Primary School students).
• maths resources for Primary school studens.
• computer-based learning resouces for computing students.