Research

Thomas Ihde's research interests focus on the acquisition of the Irish language and his research projects have collected data from both adults acquiring the language and infants being raised bilingually. Although a fluent speaker of English, French, Haitian Creole, and Spanish, the majority of his research over the past fifteen years has focussed on the Irish language.

Ongoing research from previously funded projects that focus second language learning include a grant-funded project that has led to the development of new courses leading to a minor in Irish Language Studies and a project that has led to a Routledge/Taylor & Francis book with CDs documenting and preserving a local dialect of the Irish language, Cois Fharraige in West Galway. Thomas Ihde serves as the PI of a curriculum development project which is funded for three years by the Irish Government. He is also the primary author of the Routledge Colloquial Irish.

Newly funded research projects include the creation of a sound atlas of West Galway Irish and a comparative look at the use of signage, the linguistic landscape, in the western part of County Galway.

Prof. Thomas W. Ihde, Ph.D.

Irish Language & Literature

thomas.ihde@lehman.cuny.edu

Affiliations:
Associate Professor, L&L, Lehman College, CUNY
Executive Director, IIAS, Lehman College, CUNY
Research Associate, RISLUS, Graduate Center, CUNY

1994 (ed.): The Irish Language in the United States: a historical, sociolinguistic, and applied linguistic survey. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

2008: Colloquial Irish (with Máire Ní Neachtain, Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew, and John Gillen). London: Routledge.

Articles

- 2008: "Pedagogy-driven publishing in the Irish American Diaspora." In F. Sewell & A. Titley (Eds.), A History of the Irish Book, Vol II: The Printed Book in Irish 1567-2000. New York: Oxford University Press.

- 2008: "Irish American Identity and the Irish Language." In P. Kirwan, J. Byrne & M. O'Sullivan (Eds.), Affecting Irishness. New York: Peter Lang.

- 2005: "Irish Language Learning Textbooks Published in the United States: 1873-1904." New Hibernia Review, 9, pp. 137-151.

- 2005: "Linguistic perceptions of the Irish-speaking districts: on-line versus in-person." In L. Ashley & W. Finke (Eds.), Language in the Era of Globalization. (pp. 91-96). East Rockaway, NY: Cummings & Hathaway Publishers.

- 2003: "Language Learning and the On-Line Environment: The Views of Learners of Chinese." The Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (JCLTA) 38(1), pp. 25-52.

- 2001-2002: "Teacher and Student Roles in Multimedia Language Learning." Teanga: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics 20, pp. 69-87.

- 2000: “Curriculum Development and Textbook Design for North American Learners of Irish.” Language, Culture, & Curriculum 13(1), pp. 1-12.

- 2000: "Issues in the design of credited Irish courses" Journal of Celtic Language Learning 5, pp. 5-19.

- 1997: “Teacher Certification and Less Commonly Taught Languages” Journal of Celtic Language Learning 3, pp. 41-50.

- 1996: “Feedback in L2 Writing” MEXTESOL Journal: Mexican Association of Teachers of English 20.2, pp. 37-45.

- 1996: “Language Report: Irish Language Courses at American Colleges” Éire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 30.4, pp. 181-186.

- 1996: “Immigration and Language” The ECCSSA Journal (Eastern Community College Social Science Association) 11.1, pp. 39-44.

- 1995: “Dialect Choice and Language Learning” Teangeolas: Journal of the Linguistics Institute of Ireland 35, pp. 37-40.

- 1995: “Teaching Irish to Americans: Focus on Feedback” Teanga: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics 15, pp. 81-89.

- 1994: “The Use of Computers in Teaching Writing,” New Jersey English Journal Fall, pp. 54-56.

- 1993: "Error Correction in L1 & L2 Language Learning" Rule Syntactica 4, pp. 46-53. (ERIC ED 374 678).

Teaching

Professor Ihde teaches courses in Irish as a foreign language and Irish language literature. Thomas Ihde holds a master's degree and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Dublin (Trinity College) and has also studies Irish at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

Personal Information

Thomas Ihde (Tomás Ó h-Íde) is grandson of Tomás Seosamh Ó Máille, a native speaker of Irish who grew up on the eastern shores of Loch Corrib (Loch Coirib) in Co. Galway and who immigrated to Essex County, New Jersey, at the turn of the last century. Thomas Ihde was born in Essex County and still lives blocks from the place of his birth. His children are being raised bilingually in Irish and English and the Ihdes often vacation in the Irish-speaking Co. Galway village of An Cheathrú Rua.