Dr Clive W. Earls

Biography
Research Interests
Research Projects
Project | Role | Funding Body / Program | Description | Start Date | End Date | Award (€) | |
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Higher Education Language Educator Competences (HELECs) | Funded Partner | / Government State Bodies | 01-APR-19 | 30-SEP-20 | 150000 |
Books
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Evolving Agendas in European English-Medium Higher Education: Interculturality, Multilingualism and Language Policy.
Earls C. (2016) Evolving Agendas in European English-Medium Higher Education: Interculturality, Multilingualism and Language Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. [DOI] [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | 'Dynamic complexity: The changing face of higher-education language teaching in the Republic of Ireland'
Earls, C. W., Riordan, E., Flynn, C., Furlong, A. (2021) 'Dynamic complexity: The changing face of higher-education language teaching in the Republic of Ireland'. All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J), [Details] |
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2020 | 'Higher Education Language Educator Competences (HELECs)'
Dr. Emma Riordan, Dr. Clive W. Earls, Dr. Colin Flynn, Dr. Aine Furlong (2020) 'Higher Education Language Educator Competences (HELECs)'. TEANGA: THE IRISH YEARBOOK OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS, 27 :193-203 [Details] |
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2019 | 'Languages Connect: Addressing a missing experiential dimension'
Dr. Clive W. Earls (2019) 'Languages Connect: Addressing a missing experiential dimension'. Education and Society Publications, 1 [Details] |
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2018 | 'Popping the Erasmus Bubble: Perceptions of Intercultural Awareness and Competence of Incoming Erasmus+ Students and the Preparation Challenge'
Dr Clive W. Earls (2018) 'Popping the Erasmus Bubble: Perceptions of Intercultural Awareness and Competence of Incoming Erasmus+ Students and the Preparation Challenge'. Higher Education Research, 3 (3):45-54 [full-text] [Details] |
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2015 | 'When English just is not enough: ‘Multilingualism with English’ in contemporary European higher education'
Dr Clive W. Earls (2015) 'When English just is not enough: ‘Multilingualism with English’ in contemporary European higher education'. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 25 [full-text] [Details] |
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2014 | 'Striking the balance: The role of English and German in a multilingual English-medium degree programme in German higher education'
Dr Clive W. Earls (2014) 'Striking the balance: The role of English and German in a multilingual English-medium degree programme in German higher education'. Current Issues in Language Planning, 15 :153-172 [full-text] [Details] |
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2013 | 'Setting the Catherine Wheel in motion: An exploration of Englishization in the German higher education system'
Dr Clive W. Earls (2013) 'Setting the Catherine Wheel in motion: An exploration of Englishization in the German higher education system'. Language Problems and Language Planning, 37 :125-150 [full-text] [Details] |
Edited Books
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | English and Multilingualism in 21st Century Europe
Dr Clive W. Earls (Ed.). (2016) English and Multilingualism in 21st Century Europe Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details] |
Book Chapters
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | 'Competing transformative forces and discourses: Multilingualism and English in the 'knowledge economy' of a globalising Ireland'
Dr Clive W. Earls (2016) 'Competing transformative forces and discourses: Multilingualism and English in the 'knowledge economy' of a globalising Ireland' In: English and Multilingualism in 21st Century Europe. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details] |
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2016 | 'Introduction'
Dr Clive W. Earls (2016) 'Introduction' In: Dr Clive W Earls (eds). Multilingualism and English in Twenty-First-Century Europe: Recent Developments and Challenges. Oxford: Peter Lang. [Details] |
Published Reports
Year | Publication | |
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2015 | Report: English & Multilingualism in 21st-Century Europe, Maynooth University, June 2015.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2015) Report: English & Multilingualism in 21st-Century Europe, Maynooth University, June 2015. Hartung Gorre Verlag, Konstanz, Germany. [Details] |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2016 | Review of Die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in der Welt.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2016) Review of Die Stellung der deutschen Sprache in der Welt. Book Review [Details] |
Conference Contributions
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | German Studies Association of North America Annual Conference.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2019) German Studies Association of North America Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Self-reflexivity and higher education language educator competences: Supporting a community of practice, Portland, Oregon [Details] |
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2019 | Widening Participation in Language Learning.
Dr. Clive W. Earls, Dr. Emma Riordan, Dr. Colin Flynn, Dr. Aine Furlong (2019) Widening Participation in Language Learning. [Oral Presentation], Educating the educators : The training and support challenge in higher education language teaching in Ireland, University of Dundee [Details] |
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2019 | Crossing Boundaries in Language Teaching & Learning: Northern Ireland and Beyond.
Dr. Clive W. Earls, Dr. Emma Riordan, Dr. Colin Flynn, Dr. Aine Furlong (2019) Crossing Boundaries in Language Teaching & Learning: Northern Ireland and Beyond. [Oral Presentation], A skills profile for higher education language teaching, Queens University Belfast [Details] |
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2019 | EMI Practices in Europe.
Dr. Clive W. Earls (2019) EMI Practices in Europe. [Oral Presentation], Walking on eggshells – competing teaching and learning demands and expectations in the EMI environment, University of Copenhagen, Denmark , 03-APR-19 - 06-APR-19 [Details] |
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2018 | NUI-UCC Symposium on Ireland’s Languages Connect Strategy.
Dr. Clive W. Earls (2018) NUI-UCC Symposium on Ireland’s Languages Connect Strategy. [Oral Presentation], Some reflections on language-in-education policy theory and the Languages Connect Strategy, University College Cork , 30-NOV-18 - 30-NOV-18 [Details] |
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2017 | Study Abroad in research and practice - 30 years of Erasmus in Ireland.
Dr. Clive W. Earls (2017) Study Abroad in research and practice - 30 years of Erasmus in Ireland. [Oral Presentation], Fostering multilingualism in a hegemonic English-speaking bubble: The tight-rope act in English medium-of-instruction in Europe, University College Cork , 10-APR-17 - 10-APR-17 [Details] |
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2016 | EMI Winter School - Plenary Speaker.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2016) EMI Winter School - Plenary Speaker. [Plenary Lecture], Operationalising intercultural teaching and learning in English medium-of-instruction programmes: Challenges and benefits, University of Padova [Details] |
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2015 | Languages in a Globalised World.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2015) Languages in a Globalised World. [Oral Presentation], The Ever-Changing Face of English-medium Higher Education in Europe – The necessary Lingua Franca or Lingua Franca Trap?, Leeds Beckett University [Details] |
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2015 | AGS Annual Conference 2015.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2015) AGS Annual Conference 2015. [Oral Presentation], Addressing the elephant in the room – Global English and the minoritisation of German, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick [Details] |
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2015 | English & Multilingualism in 21st-Century Europe.
Dr. Clive W. Earls (2015) English & Multilingualism in 21st-Century Europe. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], English & Multilingualism in 21st-Century Europe, Maynooth University [Details] |
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2013 | Nitobe Symposium: Languages and Internationalisation in Higher Education: Ideologies, Practices, Alternatives - Plenary Speaker.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2013) Nitobe Symposium: Languages and Internationalisation in Higher Education: Ideologies, Practices, Alternatives - Plenary Speaker. [Plenary Lecture], Crossing the linguistic Rubicon: English-medium degree programmes as a concomitant challenge to and mechanism of implicit German language policy?, National Museum of Iceland [Details] |
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2012 | Supporting Internationalisation through Languages and Culture in the 21st Century University.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2012) Supporting Internationalisation through Languages and Culture in the 21st Century University. [Oral Presentation], This is an English-only programme” - When ‘Internationalisation’ means ‘Englishisation’: Authenticity, Multilingualism and Interculturality, University of Central Lancashire [Details] |
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2012 | Mehrsprachigkeit in Gesellschaft, Arbeitswelt und Politik. Neue Herausforderungen an die universitäre Lehre.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2012) Mehrsprachigkeit in Gesellschaft, Arbeitswelt und Politik. Neue Herausforderungen an die universitäre Lehre. [Oral Presentation], Voices from the periphery: teacher and student experiences in the brave new world of English-medium international education in Germany, Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg [Details] |
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2011 | Crossing Boundaries: The Impact of Language Studies in Academia and Beyond.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2011) Crossing Boundaries: The Impact of Language Studies in Academia and Beyond. [Oral Presentation], Striking the balance: the role of English and German in multilingual international degree programmes in German tertiary education, Queens University Belfast [Details] |
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2009 | IRAAL Language Policy and Language Learning.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2009) IRAAL Language Policy and Language Learning. [Oral Presentation], English-medium degree programmes as a driver of language shift in the German higher education system?, University of Limerick [Details] |
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2008 | German Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference.
Dr Clive W. Earls (2008) German Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference. [Oral Presentation], Teaching through a foreign medium: What can possibly go wrong?, University of Limerick [Details] |
Professional Associations
Association | Function | From / To | |
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German Studies Association of Ireland | Co-Chair | 01-JUN-16 / 10-NOV-19 | |
German Studies Association of North America | Member | 01-JAN-19 / 31-DEC-19 | |
Irish Association of Applied Linguistics | Member | 01-JAN-19 / 31-DEC-19 | |
Association of German Studies in the UK and Ireland | Member | 01-JAN-16 / 31-DEC-19 | |
German Studies Association of Ireland | Secretary | 10-NOV-16 / 01-APR-17 |
Honours and Awards
Year | Title | Awarding Body | |
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2019 | Centre for Teaching and Learning Masterclass Fund | Centre for Teaching and Learning | |
2019 | Post-Primary Outreach & Activation Initiative | Post-Primary Languages Initiative | |
2018 | National Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund | National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education | |
2016 | Maynooth University Publication Grant | ||
2015 | National University of Ireland Award | ||
2009 | Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (UL) Bursary Recipient | ||
2008 | Association of German Studies in the UK & Ireland Scholar | ||
2007 | Irish Social Sciences Platform Government of Ireland Scholar |
Committees
Committee | Function | From / To | |
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Faculty Teaching and Learning Committee | Member | 2015 / 2020 | |
Faculty Board | Member | 2017 / 2020 | |
Academic Council | Member | 2017 / 2020 |
Education
Year | Institution | Qualification | Subject | |
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2013 | University of Limerick | Ph.D. | ||
2006 | University of Limerick | B.A. in Applied Languages |
Languages
Language | Reading | Writing | Speaking | |
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English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent | |
Gaelige | Fluent | Basic | Basic | |
Spanish | Fluent | Fluent | Functional | |
German | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |