Eimear Kelly

Presentation Title: Translation is the Most Accurate Measure of a Student’s Language Ability in Secondary or Tertiary Education

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Past Speaker

Mrs. Eimear Kelly, M.A.has teaching position at the Department of English and American Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

She has extensive experience in third-level education, translating and interpreting, marketing and business administration. Her professional Areas of Interest are Developing methodological concepts for foreign language acquisition at tertiary level.

She structuring creative, student-focused workshops for improving English language skills.

She assembling a corpus of literary and cultural translation texts for Ger-Eng / Eng–Ger translation with a focus on problem areas in second language acquisition such as negative language transfer and fossilization.

She has Bachelor of Arts in Applied Language and Translation Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland, Master of Arts in English Literature, Freie Universität Berlin.