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\"\"E-mail:\u00a0<\/b>seaton@nd.edu<\/span><\/p>\n

Language:<\/b>\u00a0Irish<\/span><\/p>\n

Location of Study:\u00a0<\/b><\/span>Gleann Cholm Cille<\/p>\n

Program of Study:<\/b>\u00a0Oideas Gael<\/span><\/p>\n

Sponsors:\u00a0<\/b>Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures<\/span><\/p>\n

Blog URL:\u00a0http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/author\/seaton\/<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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A brief personal bio:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Why this summer language abroad opportunity is important to me:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I grew up in Elmhurst, which is near Chicago. I attended the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for high school and came into Notre Dame as a Neuroscience major before I realized that I did not want to pursue science further. I am now an Accounting major. I decided to take Irish because it sounded interesting and I fell in love with the language. I am now pursuing a secondary major in Irish Language and Literature. On campus I am involved in KiND club, SUB, hall council and work at the law school caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n

What I hope to achieve as a result of this summer study abroad experience:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By receiving an SLA award, I do not expect to become fluent in Irish. However, I do expect to expand improve my pronunciation and further my comprehension of spoken Irish. As of now, while I am proficient in reading and writing Irish, my speaking and comprehension skills need improvement. The aspect of Irish I have always struggled with is pronunciation. Through this program, my pronunciation will improve as I will not only be constantly producing Irish myself, but listening to others produce it as well. Beyond improving my pronunciation skills, I will also improve my comprehension skills. During conversations and classes with other students and teachers, I will have to not only produce Irish myself, but understand their responses so that the conversation can continue. By focusing on conversational Irish at this program, I will be able to better distinguish exactly what is being said and craft better responses. Overall, from this grant, I will be able to have better and more thorough conversations through the Irish language.<\/p>\n

My specific learning goals for language and intercultural learning this summer:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1. By the end of the summer, I will be able to use both simple and complex sentences when having a conversation in Irish so that I am able to more fully express myself. 2. By the end of the summer, I will have expanded my vocabulary to include both general subjects, such as food and travel, as well as more specific dialectical vocabulary. 3. By the end of the summer, I will be able to understand the majority (90%) of what is said to me in Irish. 4. By the end of the summer, I will have improved my pronunciation such that I will be accurately able to pronounce a word I have never seen before without looking up the pronunciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

E-mail:\u00a0seaton@nd.edu Language:\u00a0Irish Location of Study:\u00a0Gleann Cholm Cille Program of Study:\u00a0Oideas Gael Sponsors:\u00a0Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures Blog URL:\u00a0http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/author\/seaton\/   A brief personal bio: Why this summer language abroad opportunity is important to me: I grew up in Elmhurst, which … Continue reading Eaton, Sarah<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}