Felici, Francesco (2025) Now You’re Talking... Old Irish Towards a conversational approach to teaching Old Irish. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Abstract
This thesis explores the possibilities of developing communicative approaches to the
teaching of Old Irish to absolute beginners, also providing possible options to
implement this practice. After an analysis of the communicative approaches applied to
the teaching of Latin and Ancient Greek since the Renaissance (Chapter 1), the focus is
switched to the Old Irish learning materials published since the first full description of
the language (second half of the 19th century), which are reviewed one by one in
Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, I introduce my own project for an Old Irish textbook based on
the conversational approach and explain its main principles. Chapter 4 is instead
focused on advanced beginners and their serious need for ‘bridge texts’, that is, reading
texts that facilitate and foster the transition from the textbook to original literature. I will
also discuss the option of producing such texts by translating existing literary works and
the issues that this kind of translation may raise. Chapter 5 provides materials that
exemplify my endeavours towards innovative approaches to Old Irish language
teaching.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) |
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Keywords: | Old Irish; conversational approach; teaching Old Irish; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of Celtic Studies > Early Irish (Sean Ghaeilge) |
Item ID: | 19938 |
Depositing User: | IR eTheses |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jun 2025 15:02 |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19938 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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