by Ciara Ní Bhroin | Aug 10, 2022
The aim of this small-scale study was to investigate the ways CAs can effectively support the development of children’s academic and language proficiency in the Irish Medium immersion early years classroom
by Ciara Ní Bhroin | Aug 3, 2022
Breandán Mac Gearailt, Gerry Mac Ruairc & Clíona Murray (2021): Actualising Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Irish-medium education; why, how and why now?, Irish Educational Studies.
This paper draws on the findings of a scoping literature review to provide a rationale for actualising CLIL as a pedagogical foundation in Irish-medium post-primary education. The authors will examine the literature and methodologies of CLIL and explore the links with immersion best practice and language acquisition, teaching and learning.
by Ciara Ní Bhroin | Aug 3, 2022
October 2021 International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 57(3) DOI:10.1111/1460-6984.12674 Linda Mulgrew, Orla Duffy, Lynda Kennedy Background: An increasing number of children in the UK and Ireland are growing up speaking more than one language....
by Ciara Ní Bhroin | Aug 2, 2022
This article provides an insight into the experience of the leaders of all-Irish schools in the Education and Training Boards sector, both successes and challenges, since the school closures on that fateful day in March 2020. While all schools faced many challenges, school leaders in Irish-medium schools had to deal with certain challenges that were unique to their context.
by Ciara Ní Bhroin | Aug 2, 2022
Gavin Murphy (2022): Principals’ accounts of practices, system support and challenges in leading secondary immersion education in Ireland, Journal of Educational Administration and History, DOI: 10.1080/00220620.2022.2070140