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Biography
Dr Marty Meinardi
Marty
Meinardi has a BA in English Language, an MA in English Literature and
Drama Studies both from the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands
and a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the DIT. Marty first joined the
DIT in 1994. Within the DIT she divides her time between the School of
Languages, the School of Social Science and the Digital Media Centre
(DMC). Marty lectures in English as a Second Language on the
International Business and Language Degree (IBL) and Drama in Education
on the BA in Social Care.
Research profile: Marty first joined
the DMC in 2002 on the Enterprise Ireland funded interdisciplinary
DITCALL project, which slows down natural speech without tonal
distortion, where she was part of the Language Strand. Currently, she
is part of the Enterprise Ireland sponsored FLUENT project team
researching the pedagogical benefits and use of a speech corpus as well
as an analysis and retrieval system for the speech corpus to be used in
both research and pedagogical surroundings.
Marty’s main fields
of interest are: second language acquisition and in particular oral
and aural skills acquisition, technology enhanced learning, language
processing, pronunciation and fluency in language learners and the
occurrence of formulaic sequences in native speaker speech and its role
in acquiring fluency.