Dr. Ann Devitt
Assistant Professor
Education
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Dr Ann Devitt is an Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the School of Education in Trinity College Dublin. She teaches and supervises research in the area of language teaching and learning. She holds a degree in French and Italian, a Masters in Theoretical Linguistics and a PhD in Computer Science. In industry, she has worked on machine translation and speech synthesis products in the language domain as well as cutting edge prototypes for telecommunications network management systems. Her research interests include second language teaching and learning, the use of technology to enhance education, in particular Computer Aided Language Learning and digital game-based learning, threshold concepts and reflection in teacher education and applying computational linguistic and corpus methodologies in educational and applied linguistics research. In 2015-16 she received a Fulbright TechImpact Award on the impact of semantic connectivity in second language acquisition
Research Interest
Computers & education, Coumputational linguistics, Foreign languages education
Publications
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David Moroney and Ann Devitt, Knowledge, Belief and Practice in Language Teacher Education: Integration and Implementation of Threshold Concepts over a teaching career, 5th Biennial International Threshold Concepts Conference, Durham, UK, 9-11 July, 2014
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Activating empathy: Language teacher training through a Chinese course in, editor(s)Linda Mingfang Li and Minjie Xing , Innovation and Consolidation in Learning and Teaching Chinese, London, Sinolingua, 2014, pp74 - 85
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Ann Devitt, Markus Lamest, Mairead Brady, Nicki Newman & Stephen Gomez, Marketing simulations: experiential learning in a simulated serious game for higher-order cognitive development, The Association of Business Schools 4th Annual Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Conference, , York, UK, April, 2015, pp1 - 3
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Devitt, A. Brady M., Lamest, M., Dalton, G., Newman N and S Gomez , Serious Games in Marketing Education: Developing Higher Order Cognitive Skills through collaboration in a Simulation Game, , INTED 2015, 9th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Madrid, March , 2015
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Mairead Brady, Ann Devitt, Markus Lamest, Stephen Gomez, Winner takes all? The role of gamification in learning and Higher Order Processing, Academy of Marketing Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 7-9 July, 2015
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Ann Devitt, Melanie NÃ Dhuinn, Brendan MacMahon, Multilingualism challenges and opportunities in the Irish Post-primary education sector, American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, USA, 16-20 April, 2015
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Ann Devitt, Semantic connectivity and high utility words in core reading program corpus, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading 2015 Conference, The Big Island, Hawaii, 15-18 July, 2015
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Felicia, P., Neil Peirce, Mairead Brady and Ann Devitt(ed.), Irish Game Based Learning Conference, Proceedings of the 6th Irish Conference on Game-Based Learning, Trinity College Dublin, 6th, 1st and 2nd Septembe, 2016, 1-334 p
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Gene Dalton and Ann Devitt, Gaeilge Gaming: Assessing how games can help children to learn Irish, International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 6, (4), 2016, p22 - 38
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Gene Dalton and Ann Devitt, Irish in a 3D World: Engaging Primary School Children, Language Learning and Technology, 20, (1), 2016, p21 - 33
