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| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Little, David George | |
| Main Department | CLCS | |
| College Title | Fellow Emeritus | |
| dlittle@tcd.ie | ||
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| Web | http://people.tcd.ie/dlittle | |
| Representations |
| Details | Date |
| Founder member and chairman of Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann's Modern Languages Project | 1978–83 |
| Chairman of Royal Irish Academy’s National Commission for the Teaching of Modern Continental Languages | 1981–83 |
| Trinity College representative on Department of Education’s Syllabus Committee for Leaving Certificate German | 1983–85 |
| Director, Integrate Ireland Language and Training (successor to the Refugee Language Support Unit), a not-for-profit campus company of Trinity College | 2001–Present |
| Member of interim Board of Language Studies of the Curriculum and Examinations Board | 1985–86 |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| President of CERCLES | 1995 | 2000 |
| EUROCALL (European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning) | 1993 | Present |
| Founder member of CERCLES (European Confederation of Language Centres in Institutions of Higher Education) | 1991 | Present |
| European Second Language Association | 1990 | Present |
| Founder member of DULC (Directors [now Association] of University Language Centres in Great Britain and Ireland) | 1982 | Present |
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| Awards and Honours | |
| Award | Date |
| Fellow of Trinity College Dublin | 1995 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| French | Fluent | Medium | Medium |
| German | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| Publications |
| Peer Reviewed |
| Knowledge about language and learner autonomy, Jasone Cenoz and Nancy H. Hornberger, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Volume 6: Knowledge about Language, New York, Springer, 2007, pp247 - 260, [David Little] | |
| David Little, The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: content, purpose, origin, reception and impact, Language Teaching, 39, (3), 2006, p167 - 190 | |
| Notional-functional syllabuses in the context of Irish second-level education: a project in curriculum development and some definitional problems in, editor(s)T. J. M. van Els and L. K. Engels , Notional-Functional Syllabuses in Language Learning (Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, special 1), Amsterdam, VU Boekhandel/Uitgeverij, 1983, pp65 - 85, [D. G. Little] | |
| S. M. Devitt, , Learning Irish with Anois is Arís, CLCS Occasional Paper No.6, 1983, p128 Notes: [Republished in the U.S.A. after independent peer review as ERIC microfiche ED 232 437. ] |
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| D. G. Little, D. M. Singleton, W. M. F. Silvius, Learning Irish: experience and aspirations, Teagasc na Gaeilge, 1983, p35 - 65 | |
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