Programme

6th Annual Conference of the North

American Association for Celtic

Language Teachers

The Information Age, Celtic Languages

and the New Millennium

22-25 June 2000

University of Limerick

Limerick, Ireland

www.csis.ul.ie/naaclt2000

www.naaclt.org

Celtic Software Internationalisation

Thursday 22 June, Room S114

09h00 Registration (Schuman Foyer)
09h30-10h30 Localisation of Web Sites using HTMLQA and TransWeb

Express

Darina Slattery, University of Limerick

10h30-11h00 Coffee (Schuman Staff Lounge)
11h00-12h00 Software Localisation/Software Localisation Tools

Patricia McKenna, Corel

12h00-13h00
Menna Morgan, Canolfan Bedwyr
13h00-14h30 Lunch (Schuman Café)
14h30-15h30 Typical Software Localisation Problems

Liam Cronin, Microsoft

15h30-16h00 Tea (Schuman Staff Lounge)
16h00-17h00 Celtic Typefaces, Typography, and Character Coding

Michael Everson, Everson Gunn Teoranta

17h00 Close of Workshop
19h30 Entertainment and Optional Dinner (Stables Club)

Language Teaching and

Curriculum Design

Thursday 22 June, Room S115

09h00 Registration (Schuman Foyer)
09h30-10h00 First Steps in Irish Phonetics

Connie Ní Fhátharta, Muintearas

10h00-10h30 Folklore for Children

Roibeard Ó Cathasaigh, Coláiste Mhuire Gan Smál, Luimneach

10h30-11h00 Coffee (Schuman Staff Lounge)
11h00-12h00 Irish in the Revised Curriculum for Primary Schools

Nóirín Ní Nuadháin, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment

12h00-13h00 Software Demonstration and Use, Part I

Maitias Mac Cárthaigh, Irish Interactive Multimedia

13h00-14h30 Lunch (Schuman Café)
14h30-15h30 Software Demonstration and Use, Part II

Maitias Mac Cárthaigh, Irish Interactive Multimedia

15h30-16h00 Tea (Schuman Staff Lounge)
16h00-17h30 Discussion Forum

Chair: Úna Nic Einrí, Coláiste Mhuire Gan Smál, Luimneach

17h30 Close of Workshop
19h30 Entertainment and Optional Dinner (Stables Club)


Linguistic Corpora in

Language Studies

Thursday 22 June, Room S116

09h00 Registration (Schuman Foyer)
09h30-10h30 Marking Up Corpora Using TEI

Margaret Lantry, University College Cork

10h30-11h00 Coffee (Schuman Staff Lounge)
11h00-12h00 Corpora, Markup Languages and Syntactic Annotation

Richard F. E. Sutcliffe, University of Limerick

12h00-13h00 Nessa Tremen - A New Examination of the Cornish Corpus

Ken George, Seaton, Cornwall

13h00-14h30 Lunch (Schuman Café)
14h30-15h30 The Use of Corpora and Concordancing in Language Learning and Teaching

Angela Chambers, University of Limerick

15h30-16h00 Tea (Schuman Staff Lounge)
16h00-17h00 Corpus Resources for Celtic Languages

Caoimhín Ó Donnaile, University of the Highlands and Islands

17h00 Close of Workshop
19h30 Entertainment and Optional Dinner (Stables Club)


Conference Programme

Friday 23 June

09h00 Registration (Schuman Foyer)
10h00-10h15 Opening of the Conference by Pat Cox MEP (Room S205)
10h15-11h00 Keynote Address (Room S205)

Chair: Gerry Ó Néill, University of Limerick

Gaelic and Computing: What is Happening and What Needs Doing - A Personal View

Caoimhín Ó Donnaile, University of the Highlands and Islands

1
11h00-11h30 Coffee (Schuman Staff Lounge)
11h30-13h00 Session 1: Strategy and Policy I (Room S205)

Chair: Nancy Stenson, University of Minnesota

Manx Gaelic: Chengey-ny-Mayrey Ellan Vannin - A Language on the Edge

Phil Kelly, Rheynn Cullyn, Isle of Man

57
To Secure an Anchor for Our Celtic Souls: An Integrated Development Programme for Manx Gaelic

Philip Gawne, Manx National Heritage, Isle of Man

29
Manx Gaelic in the Year 2000

Brian Stowell, Scrudeyr ny Sheshaght Ghailckagh, Isle of Man

141
13h00-13h10 Group Photograph (Front of Schuman Building)
13h10-14h30 Lunch (Schuman Café)
14h30-15h30 Session 2: Tools & Resources I (Room S205)

Chair: Ronan Le Coadic, IUFM, Bretagne

Living Celtic Speech: Celtic Sound Archives in North America

Ken Nilsen, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

89
The ISOS Project - A Digital Library of Irish Scripts on Screen

Criostaí Mac Íomhaire, Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha, Pádraig Ó Macháin & Alan F. Smeaton, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies & Dublin City University

71
15h30-16h00 Tea (Schuman Staff Lounge)
16h00-17h30 Session 3: Tools & Resources II (Room S205)

Chair: Ken George, Seaton, Cornwall

Bilingual Spoken Dictionary Based on Speech Synthesis in Breton

Nicolas Auclerc, Alexandre Bramoullé, Francis Favereau, Hervé Gourmelon, Pierre Lavanant, François Louis, Guy Mercier & Jacques Siroux, Skol Vreizh, ENSSAT Lannion & TES

11
Developing a Welsh Terminology Dictionary

J. P. M. Jones, University of Wales, Bangor

49
E-Celtic Language Tools: The Latest Developments from Wales

Delyth Prys & Menna Morgan, University of Wales, Bangor

123
Reception & Conference Dinner
19h00 Bus departs from central UL dropoff area and then calls at main reception of Castletroy Park Hotel
19h30 Drinks Reception at Limerick County Golf & Country Club

Entertainment by Cóir Sliabh Féilim

20h00 Dinner
22h00 Entertainment by Comhaltas Ceolteoirí Éireann - Maigh Rua / Ceapach Mór
23h15 Bus returns to Castletroy Park Hotel and UL

Conference Programme

Saturday 24 June

10h00-11h00 Session 4: Pedagogical Methods I (Room S205)

Chair: Ken Nilsen, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

If We Drill Them, Will They Learn Them?

Sheila Scott & Harold Kenny, University of Ottawa & Royal Military

College of Canada

133
Welsh Medium and Bilingual Teaching in the Further Education Sector

Cen Williams, University of Wales, Bangor

155
11h00-11h30 Coffee (Schuman Staff Lounge)
11h30-13h00 Parallel Session 5a: Strategy and Policy II (Room S205)

Chair: Brian Stowell, Scrudeyr ny Sheshaght Ghailckagh, Isle of Man

The Breton Language : From Taboo to Recognition

Ronan Le Coadic, IUFM, Bretagne

23
Waiting for TV-Breizh?

Stefan Moal, Douarnenez, Brittany

83
Language Ideologies in Brittany, with Implications for Breton Language Maintenance and Pedagogy

Lenora A. Timm, University of California

147
11h30-13h00 Parallel Session 5b: Pedagogical Experiences (Room S114)

Chair: Delyth Prys, University of Wales, Bangor

Teaching Scottish Gaelic to Irish Speakers

Michelle Macleod, National University of Ireland, Galway

77
The Effect of Bilingualism on Learners' Self-Awareness - A Case Study

Muiris Ó Laoire, Institute of Technology, Tralee

111
Teaching the Initial Mutations in Modern Irish

Séamas Ó Direáin, University College, Cork

103
13h00-14h30 Lunch (Schuman Café)
14h30-15h30 Parallel Session 6a: Pedagogical Methods II (Room S205)

Chair: Úna Nic Einrí, Coláiste Mhuire Gan Smál, Luimneach

The Role of Language Models in Culture Maintenance: The Challenge of Teaching Gaelic in Nova Scotia

Catriona NicIomhair Parsons, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

117
Welsh Number Talk

Gareth Roberts, University of Wales, Bangor

129
14h30-15h30 Parallel Session 6b: Tools & Resources III (Room S114)

Chair: Michelle Macleod, National University of Ireland, Galway

On Simplifying the Lexical Tagging of Cornish Texts

Ken George, Seaton, Cornwall

35
Search and Retrieval Options within the Database of the Corpus of Electronic Texts - CELT Project

Donnchadh Ó Corráin & Beatrix Färber, University College Cork

95
15h30-16h00 Tea (Schuman Staff Lounge)
16h00-17h30 Session 7: Pedagogical Methods III (Room S205)

Chair: Catriona NicIomhair Parsons, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia

Journal Writing Revisited: A Follow-up Study in an Irish Language Class

Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew, University of Pennsylvania

17
Welsh Intensive Language Learning Centres

Geraint Wyn Jones, University of Wales, Bangor

41
Imagination in the Teaching of Cornish

Neil Kennedy, Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall

63
17h30 Close of Conference