Lecturer

Email: valerie.hascoet@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 2206134

Valerie holds qualifications in five separate disciplines: English Studies (B.A., M.A. from University of Toulouse II), French as a Foreign Language (Dip., M.A. from University of Grenoble II), English to Speakers of Other Languages (Celta from University of Cambridge) as well as French Literature (B.A. from University of Paris X-Nanterre) and Linguistics (M. Phil from University of Dublin-Trinity College). 

She has taught at Saint Patrick’s College, Maynooth (now NUIM), LSB College and Tallaght RTC (formerly IT Tallaght, now TU Dublin) then Trinity College Dublin where she developed the first set of online resources for the French Department. At TU Dublin (formerly Dublin Institute of Technology) she las lectured in French for Specific Purposes (tourism, event, hospitality and leisure; culinary arts; business) and French literary criticism as well as English for Specific Purposes and ESOL. She has experience of CEFR levels from A0 to B2/C1. Her current teaching brief includes Linguistics and French language skills.   

Research Interests 

Valerie’s research interests include language learning and neurodiversity (especially dyslexia) and communicative and functional approaches to language learning, particularly task-based language learning. 

Publications and editorial work 

Education Applications & Developments IV. Peer-reviewed book. Dr. Mafalda Carmo ed. 2019: inScience Press. ISSN 2184-0210 (electronic version). ISSN 2184-2978 (printed version). Member of editorial advisory board. Available at http://www.insciencepress.org 

Formerly Language Editor, DeGruyter’s Open Linguistics online series. https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/opli/html 

“Learning a Language with Dyslexia”. Peer-reviewed article. 2016: The AHEAD Journal, Issue 4 (November 2016), 28-37. ISSN 2009-8286. Available at https://www.ahead.ie/journal/Learning-a-Language-with-Dyslexia 

“Retaining the “specific” in Language for Specific Purposes: Task-based Language Learning to the rescue”. Peer-reviewed article. 2014: iCERi 14 proceedings. ISBN 978-84-617-2484-0. Abstract available at http://library.iated.org/view/HASCOET2014RET 

“Benefits for all! How supporting language learners with dyslexic spectrum disorder in third-level education can improve your teaching”. Peer-reviewed article. 2013: EduLearn 13 Proceedings. ISBN978-84-616-3822-2.  

Abstract available at http://library.iated.org/view/HASCOET2013BEN 

Conferences  

Member of Scientific Committee, END 2017 (International Conference on Education and New Developments), Lisbon, 24th-26th June 2017.  

“Retaining the “specific” in Language for Specific Purposes: Task-based Language Learning to the rescue”, 2014: ICERI 14. Virtual presentation. Peer-reviewed article published in 2014: ICERI 14 proceedings, ISBN 978-84-617-2484-0.  

Member of Scientific Committee, INTED 2014 – 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, 10-12th March 2014.  

“Benefits for all! How supporting language learners with dyslexic spectrum disorder in third-level education can improve your teaching”, 1st July 2013: Edulearn 13, Barcelona. Oral presentation. Peer-reviewed article published in 2013: Edulearn 13 Proceedings, ISBN 978-84-616-3822-2. 

“Apprentissage d’une langue de spécialité, apprentissage par les tâches ? (Does Language Learning for Specific Purposes equal Task-based Language Learning?)”, 31 May, 1 and 2 June 2012: 34th Annual Conference of the Association of Language Teachers in French IOTs (APLIUT), Robert Schumann Institute of Technology, Strasbourg. Oral presentation   

Scholarly activity 

"Adaptive learning technologies", 18th October 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7iN-tCtloY&t=2s . Video [online]. 

“Using storytelling as students’ presentations”, 28th July 2016: http://telu.me/using-storytelling-tools-for-student-presentations-valerie-hascoet/. Article [online].  

“Module: French 4”, 6 April 2017: https://arrow.tudublin.ie/aaschlanoth/8/Poster. Part of Student in Action feedback event.