Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Sylvie Mossay is a lecturer in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the School of Education. She is a qualified Modern Foreign Language teacher with 20 years experience in 2nd and 3rd level education. Originally from Belgium, she studied languages at the Université de Liège  (BA/MA in 'langues et littératures modernes, orientation germaniques'). She spent her Erasmus year in Germany where she studied at the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg. She continued her postgraduate studies in NUI Galway (HDip in Ed, MA in French, Pg Cert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) where she has been teaching French and French methodology on various programs in the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies since 2004.

She is also a microteaching- and school placement tutor as well as a research supervisor on the Professional Master of Education program (PME) in the School of Education.

To encourage the uptake of languages at post-primary level, she recently started teaching a primary school language sampler module that she designed (as part of the Languages Connect and PPLI initiative)

Areas of interest: ·        
European Comics (particular interest in Belgian comics)
Teaching and Learning Technology (for MFL)        
Curriculum design and assessment   
Learning Resource design