The IRAAL Postgraduate Students Special Interest Group (PG-SIG) provides a forum for all postgraduate students in Irish universities and other parts of the world to contribute to research and discourse related to applied linguistics. The key aims of the PG-SIG are:
IRAAL PG SIG Joint Coordinators
Raquel Rodriguez-Fernandez
Sagun Shrestha
Sagun Shrestha holds a B.Ed. and M.ED from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He also obtained an MA in English Language Teaching (Specialism in Information and Communication Technologies) from the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK as a Hornby Scholar (2016). He has worked as a teacher trainer for 5 years and English teacher for more than 7 years in Nepal. Currently, he is serving as an editor-in-chief of NELTA ELT Forum,the official ezine of Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA). He was one of the founding editors of The Warwick ELT, the English Language Teaching (ELT) based ezine published from the University of Warwick. For his PhD project, he is looking into interplay between educational language policies and affordances of Information and communication technologies and barriers of integrating ICT in language education.
- to create a common platform for all postgraduate students to network and to provide them with opportunities to discuss and debate issues around applied linguistics;
- to inform postgraduate students of the current issues and concerns in applied linguistics and to help them share their work in a wider network by organising academic events such as conferences, workshops, round tables, symposia, webinars and so on.
- to give visibility to postgraduate students’ contributions through the IRAAL’s newsletter, the PG-SIG’s blog, social media, and other possible means; and
- to inform postgraduate students about academic events and other opportunities around the world.
IRAAL PG SIG Joint Coordinators
Raquel Rodriguez-Fernandez
Sagun Shrestha
Sagun Shrestha holds a B.Ed. and M.ED from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He also obtained an MA in English Language Teaching (Specialism in Information and Communication Technologies) from the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK as a Hornby Scholar (2016). He has worked as a teacher trainer for 5 years and English teacher for more than 7 years in Nepal. Currently, he is serving as an editor-in-chief of NELTA ELT Forum,the official ezine of Nepal English Language Teachers’ Association (NELTA). He was one of the founding editors of The Warwick ELT, the English Language Teaching (ELT) based ezine published from the University of Warwick. For his PhD project, he is looking into interplay between educational language policies and affordances of Information and communication technologies and barriers of integrating ICT in language education.