Sarah Sheridan
Assistant Professor
Centre for Deaf Studies
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Ms. Sarah Sheridan is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Deaf Studies. She is also an active Irish Sign Language/English Interpreter and is a current board member of the Irish Sign Language Interpreting Service. Her primary research is on second language learning, which is connected to her PhD studies in the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences. This research also relates to her work on the Sign Language Acquisition Corpus - a cross-linguistic collaboration with Stockholm University. In addition, she has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Educational Studies in TCD and has a keen interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning and intercultural studies.
Research Interest
Deaf Studies; Intercultural Studies; Irish Sign Language; Second language acquisition; sign language interpreting; signed language teaching and learning; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; Teaching and learning
Publications
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Matthews, P.A., Sheridan, S. and Leeson, L., Sign Language Acquisition Corpus (SLAC) - ISL, Sign Language Acquisition Corpus (SLAC), Trinity College Dublin, -
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Sarah Sheridan, Translating Idiomatic Expressions from English to ISL: Theory and Practice, The Sign Language Translator and Interpreter, 3, (1), 2009, p69 - 83
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Lourdes Calle, Lorraine Leeson, Sarah Sheridan, Ellen Lennon-Bowman and Haaris Sheikh, efsli Working Seminar -III, 27-28 February 2013, In:efsli Working Seminar -III, 2013, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin
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Haaris Sheikh, Lorraine Leeson, Ellen Lennon-Bowman and Sarah Sheridan, Medisigns, 1-2 March 2013, In:Medisigns, 2013, Trinity College Dublin
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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
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Sarah Sheridan, Grounded Theory Working Seminar, Grounded Theory Online: Supporting Grounded Theory Researchers, Middle Temple Hall, London, 2015, -
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Sarah Sheridan, Grounded Theory Working Seminar, Grounded Theory Online: Supporting Grounded Theory Researchers, Middle Temple Hall, London, 2015, -
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Patrick A. Matthews, Sarah Sheridan, Digging into Signs - Irish Sign Language, Digging into Signs Workshop: Developing Annotation Standards for Sign Language Corpora, University College London, 31st March, 2015, 2015
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Sarah Sheridan, Grounded Theory Workshop, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Winter Research School, Trinity College Dublin , 2016, -
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Sarah Sheridan, Staying Grounded - An example of how grounded theory methods have been applied to L2-M2 research, IRAAL Annual Conference, Paradigm shifting in Applied Linguistics: New theories and new methods, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 19th November, 2016, edited by Irish Association for Applied Linguistics , 2016
