Ciara R. Wigham
Ciara R. Wigham is a Senior Lecturer in English Language Teaching and Didactics at Université Clermont Auvergne, France. She teaches on the English language teaching Master’s programme and on the pedagogical engineering and digital tools track within the Master’s in Education programme. Her main area of research is Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). She is particularly interested in studying multimodal pedagogical communication in online language learning-teaching, teacher education in computer-assisted language learning, and methodologies for structuring interactions from online learning situations into multimodal CMC corpora. She recently published a co-authored book focusing on instruction giving in online language lessons (Satar & Wigham, 2023) and is currently involved in the European E-LIVE project (Engaging Languages for Intercultural Virtual Exchange). She is a permanent member of the the Acté research laboratory Activité, Connaissance, Transmission, Education) and has published extensively on CALL (https://acte.uca.fr/membres/enseignants-chercheurs/ciara-r-wigham).