Patrick Matthews
Assistant Professor
Deaf Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Patrick Matthews is a Lecturer in Deaf Studies and ISL Co-ordinator. He is also Course Director for the Diploma in ISL Teaching programme. Dr. Lorraine Leeson and Mr. Matthews were the first members of staff in the CDS when the Centre was originally set up in 2001. He developed the curriculum for the following modules; ISL , Perspectives on Deafness and Teaching methods. Mr. Matthews current research focuses on the development and feasibility of a orthography system for ISL. He has played a key role in the Irish Deaf Community over many years. He has extensive knowledge and experience of teaching ISL both generically and within specific domains, - to Deaf people as L1 learners and to non-deaf people as L2 learners. In recent years he has focused on the training and assessment of sign language interpreters. Mr. Matthews' research interests include the linguistics of ISL, Deaf education, Deaf community and culture, Teaching Methodolgies, Assessment Methods and a system of orthography for Irish Sign Language. Mr. Matthews is Deputy Chief Examiner and Drafter for the Leaving Certificate Applied in Irish Sign Language. He is currently involved in the translation of the relevant chapters from the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse Report (The Ryan Report) into Irish Sign Language.
Research Interest
A system of orthography for Irish Sign Language, the Linguistics of ISL, Deaf Culture, Pedagogy and Assessment Methods, Deaf education and the Deaf community
Publications
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Patrick A. Matthews, Extending the Lexicon of Irish Sign Language (ISL), Teanga, 16, 1996
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Patrick A. Matthews, The Irish Deaf Community, survey report, history of education, language and culture, Volume 1, Dublin, Ireland, Instituid Teangeolaiochta na Eireann (The Linguistics Institute of Ireland), 1996
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Patrick A. Matthews, The functional-notional syllabus and the teaching/learning of Irish Sign Language , Teanga, 17, 1997
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Irish Sign language pedagogy: is there a role for culture in the framework of the post modernist era? in, editor(s)A. Chambers & D. O Baoill , Intercultural Communication and Language Learning, Dublin, Ireland, The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 1999, pp47 - 55, [Patrick A. Matthews]
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Dónall Ó Baoill & Patrick A. Matthews, The Irish Deaf Community, The Structure of ISL, Volume 2 , Dublin, Ireland, Instituid Teangeolaiochta na Eireann (The Linguistics Institute of Ireland), 2000
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Language Attitude in, The Socialinguistics of Sign Languages, English, Cambridge: University Press., 2001, [Patrick A. Matthews, Sarah Burns & Evelyn Nolan-Conroy]
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Village Life, Deaf Culture in Contemporary Ireland in, editor(s)Patrick Mc Donnell , Deaf Studies in Ireland: An Introduction, English, Douglas McLean Publishing, 2004, [Patrick A. Matthews & Susan Foley-Cave]
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Practical phonology: What learners need to know about handshapes in Irish Sign Language , 21, 2, (2005), Deaf Worlds, International Journal of Deaf Studies, [eds.]
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Patrick A. Matthews, Methodological Challenges in Teaching Roleshift to Learners of Irish Sign Language (ISL) as a Second Language, 2010
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Sarah Sheridan, Patrick A. Matthews and Lorraine Leeson, Uncharted Territory - Exploring L2/M2 Sign Language Acquisition using Corpus Data, IRAAL 40th Anniversary Conference, Trinity College Dublin, 21 November 2015, 2015
