Teaching in unusual surroundings - Dún Chíomháin, a house in the countryside

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dc.contributor.authorNí Riain, Isobel
dc.contributor.editorSupple, Brionyen
dc.contributor.editorDelahunty, Tomen
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-05T09:47:07Z
dc.date.available2020-11-05T09:47:07Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractI teach the Irish language in University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. I lead weekend courses in Dún Chíomháin which is a house owned by UCC in West Kerry. The area in which the house is located forms part of the Gaeltacht, i.e. an Irish speaking area. The goal of the weekends is for the students to speak Irish to each other in an amenable language environment. In Dún Chíomháin, a kitchen, a sitting room and a dining room make up the primary teaching spaces. The learning and teaching is conversational (Baker et al. 2002). The students and teacher interact naturally and without ceremony over cornflakes and toast. The meals are cooked by the students as the Irish words for utensils and tea towels and a host of unforeseen language needs all bubble up amongst the chaos of meal preparation. In Dún Chíomháin, students realise that they don’t know the words for several everyday objects. Such words have never been taught to them, and they have never felt the need to know them before. It is not always easy for students (first years of 18 or 19 years of age usually) to start speaking Irish to their peers when they habitually speak to them in English. I have been observing these problems for some years now and wondered what could be done to help students to make the switch form English to Irish.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationNí Riain, I. (2019) 'Teaching in unusual surroundings - Dún Chíomháin, a house in the countryside', Learning Connections 2019: Spaces, People, Practice, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5-6 December, pp. 4-6. doi: 10.33178/LC.2019.01en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/LC.2019.01
dc.identifier.endpage6
dc.identifier.startpage4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10734
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.publisherNational Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Educationen
dc.rights© 2019, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectIrish languageen
dc.subjectDún Chíomháinen
dc.subjectGaeltachten
dc.titleTeaching in unusual surroundings - Dún Chíomháin, a house in the countrysideen
dc.typeConference itemen
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