Profile
Thesis title: ‘Settling into a new linguistic landscape: tracking the language acquisition of new arrival children in East London’
Supervisors: Kathleen McCarthy and Gwen Brekelmans
My PhD research is funded by LISS-DTP (ESRC). I am working on a collaborative (CASE) project, in association with Tower Hamlets Education Partnership (THEP), investigating the language development of new arrival children acquiring English in East London.
Research
Research Interests:
- Bilingual/multilingual development
- Second language speech
- Child language acquisition
- Language and migration
- Sociophonetics