Prof. Angela Chambers
Responsibilities
- Professor of Applied Languages
- Director, Centre for Applied Language Studies
- Irish Social Sciences Platform Principal Investigator for the Knowledge Interfaces Project, University of Limerick.
Academic Background
- BA French and German (Queen’s University, Belfast)
- PhD (Queen’s University, Belfast)
- Honours/awards: 1998 Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- 1990-present: University of Limerick
- 2002-present: Professor of Applied Languages
- 1990-2002 Senior Lecturer in French
- 1998 –1999: Professeur associée, Université de Lille III, France.
- 1984-1990: University of Ulster, Lecturer in French, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages
- 1975-1984: Ulster Polytechnic, Lecturer in French, School of Language and Literature
- 1972-1973: Université de Bordeaux III, Lectrice
Research Interests
My research areas fall under the broad heading of second language acquisition and language pedagogy, with particular reference to corpora. My specific interest is in the application of corpora both inside and outside the classroom.
Knowledge Interfaces (Principal Investigator, University of Limerick), funded by the Higher Education Authority under the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions, Cycle 4, 2007-2012. Part of the Irish Social Sciences Platform. (PI: Rob Kitchin, NUI Maynooth).
Selected Publications
Books
With F. Mishan (eds.) Perspectives on Language Learning Materials Development. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010.
With J. E. Conacher and J. M. Littlemore (eds.) ICT & Language Learning: Integrating Pedagogy and Practice. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2004 [Now London: Continuum Press].
With G. Davies (eds.) ICT and Language Learning: a European Perspective. Lisse: Swets & Zeitlinger, 2001.
With D. Ó Baoill (eds.) Intercultural Communication and Language Learning. Dublin: Irish Association for Applied Linguistics in association with The Royal Irish Academy, 1999.
Special issues of journals
(Guest editor) Integrating Corpora in Language Learning and Teaching. Special issue of ReCALL, 19, 3, September 2007.
Journal articles
O. Rodgers, A. Chambers and F. Le Baron. Corpora in the LSP classroom: A learner-centred corpus of French for biotechnologists. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 16.3, 2011, 392-411 (in press).
A. Chambers, F. Farr and S. O’Riordan. ‘Language teachers with corpora in mind: From starting steps to walking tall.’ Language Learning Journal, 39, 1, 2011. 85-103
‘L’apprentissage de l’écriture en langue seconde à l’aide d’un corpus specialisé.’ Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée, 15.2, 2010, 9-20.
‘Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Mapping the territory.’ Language Teaching, 43.1, 2010, 113-122.
‘Les corpus oraux en français langue étrangère : authenticité et pédagogie.’ Mélanges CRAPEL, 31, 2009, 15-33.
‘Language learning as discourse analysis: Implications for the LSP learning environment.’ Asp, la revue du GERAS, 2008, 51/52, 35-52.
Í. O’Sullivan and A. Chambers. ‘Learners’ writing skills in French: Corpus consultation and learner evaluation.’ Journal of Second Language Writing, 2006, 15, 49-68.
C. P. Amador Moreno, A. Chambers and S. O’Riordan. ‘Integrating a corpus of classroom discourse in language teacher education: The case of discourse markers.’ ReCALL, 2006, 18 (1), 83-104.
‘Integrating corpus consultation in language studies.’ Language Learning & Technology, 2005, 9 (2), 111-125.
A. Chambers and Í. O’Sullivan. ‘Corpus consultation and advanced learners’ writing skills in French.’ ReCALL, 2004, 16 (1), 158-172.
A. Chambers and V. Kelly. ‘Semi-specialised corpora of written French as a resource in language teaching and learning.’ Teanga, 2002, 20-21.
Chapters in books
‘Language learning as discourse analysis: Playing games in a corpus of French journalistic discourse.’ In N. Kübler (ed.), Corpora, Language, Teaching, and Resources: From theory to practice. Bern: Peter Lang: 2011, 97-112.
‘Combining text-based and corpus-based approaches in the learning and teaching of academic writing in French.’ In M. Moreno Jaén, F. Serrano Valverde and M. Calzada Pérez (eds.) Exploring New Paths in Language Pedagogy. London; Oakville, CT: Equinox, 2010, 145-156.
‘Contrastive language data: From Translation Studies to language learning and teaching.’ In T. Harris and M. Moreno Jaén (eds.) Corpus Linguistics in Language Teaching. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010, 99-118.
F. Farr, A. Chambers and S. O’Riordan. ‘Corpora for materials development in language teacher education: Underlying principles and useful data’. In F. Mishan and A. Chambers (eds.) Perspectives on Language Learning Materials Development. Bern: Peter Lang, 2010, 33-61.
‘What is Data-Driven Learning?’ In A. O’Keeffe and M. McCarthy (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London: Routledge, 2010, 345-358.
‘Integrating corpus consultation in language studies.’ In P.Hubbard (ed.) Computer Assisted Language Learning: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. New York and London: Routledge, June 2009, Vol.2, 424-444 [republication of 2005 journal article of same title].
A. Chambers and M. Wynne. ‘Sharing corpus resources in language learning.’ In F. Zhang and B. Barber (eds.) Handbook of Research on Computer-Enhanced Language Acquisition and Learning. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008, 438-451.
A. Chambers and S. Nolan. ‘The concept of culture in La francophonie: myth and reality’. In A. Pearson-Evans and A. Leahy (eds.) Intercultural Spaces: Language, Culture, Identity. New York: Peter Lang, 2007, 31-42.
‘Popularising corpus consultation by language learners and teachers’. In E. Hidalgo, L. Quereda, and J. Santana (eds.) Corpora in the Foreign Language Classroom. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007, 3-16.
A. Chambers and S. O’Riordan. ‘Learning to teach through French from a corpus of classroom discourse: Giving corrective feedback’. In J.E.Conacher and H. Kelly-Holmes (eds.) New learning Environments for language learning: Moving beyond the classroom? Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2007, 87-101.
S. Braun and A. Chambers. ‘Elektronische Korpora als Ressource für den Fremdsprachenunterricht’. In U. Jung (ed.) Praktische Handreichung für Fremdsprachenlehre’. 4th edition. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006, 330-337.
A. Chambers and V. Kelly. ‘Corpora and concordancing: Changing the paradigm in language learning and teaching?’ In A. Chambers, J. E. Conacher and J. M. Littlemore. (eds.) ICT & Language Learning: Integrating Pedagogy and Practice. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press [now Continuum], 2004, 183-201.
‘Changing concepts of culture in language learning’. In M. Smith (ed.) Readings in the Teaching of Culture. Dublin: ITÉ, 2004, 15-19.
Corpora
Chambers, A. & Le Baron, F. (eds) (2007). The Chambers-Le Baron Corpus of Research Articles in French/Le Corpus Chambers-Le Baron d’articles de recherche en français. Oxford: Oxford Text Archive. http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/headers/2527.xml
Chambers, A. & S. Rostand. (eds) (2005). Le Corpus Chambers-Rostand de français journalistique/The Chambers-Rostand Corpus of Journalistic French. Oxford, University of Oxford: Oxford Text Archive. http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/headers/2491.xml
Other
A. Chambers, D. Atkinson and F. Farr. ‘Research in progress: Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland.’ Language Teaching (in press).
Current postgraduate research supervision
- Laura Costelloe (co-supervision with Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes) ‘Analysing media discourse on French urban violence using Critical Discourse Analysis: tackling the issue of context.’ (PhD – IRCHSS Government of Ireland Scholar)
- Florence Le Baron (co-supervision with Dr Liam Murray) ‘ICT and culture learning: An investigation into the role of elements of social media in enhancing intercultural communicative awareness.’ (PhD – ISSP Government of Ireland Scholar)
- Stéphanie O’Riordan (co-supervision with Dr Fiona Farr) ‘A corpus-based approach to the study of classroom discourse in French: Discourse analysis and pedagogic applications.’ (PhD)
- Ornaith Rodgers (co-supervision with Dr Maeve Conrick, UCD) ‘Language, Gender and Maternity: The construction of gender identities in the discourse of pregnancy.’
Other research information
Recent Funded Projects
Backbone (Project team member) BACKBONE is a corpus-enhanced language learning and teaching project, funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme, 2009-2010, with partners from several countries. (PI: Kurt Kohn, University of Tübingen; UL PI: Fiona Farr).