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Professor Anne O'Keeffe is a distinguished academic specializing in Applied Linguistics at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. As Director of the Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Research Centre, she leads projects analyzing online workplace discourse through multimodal corpus methods. Her work bridges corpus linguistics with second language acquisition, focusing on pattern recognition and data-driven learning.
- Current affiliation: University of Limerick
- Director: IVACS Research Centre
- PhD supervision: 14 current students
Research interests span Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, and Discourse Analysis, with particular focus on Learner Corpora and Media Discourse. She pioneered the Limerick Corpus of Irish English and explores digital communication patterns post-COVID-19.
Recent publications examine virtual workplace discourse (2024), data-driven learning design (2023), and pos tag sequences in L2 acquisition (2024). These works demonstrate intersections between usage-based theory and pedagogical innovation.
Scientific recognition includes the Government of Ireland International Scholarship (2015). Her supervision extends to PhD candidates analyzing learner grammar, corpus applications, and virtual communication patterns.
