Language Across the Life Span Lab, an international hub promoting research and impact activities on language development and language impairment
HW Edinburgh & Malaysia campus
Joined May 2019
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Job opportunity ⬇️ Please do share with colleagues!
Applications are now open for Lecturer in Psychology for Speech and Language Therapy @uniofeastanglia
This is a fixed-term 20 month part time post. More info here: shorturl.at/FZWgx Please do share with #psychology colleagues @UEA_Health @UEAPsychology @JobsinPsychol
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Training opportunity for CATs ECR/JCR members:
🖥️ Online workshop: *PPI Facilitation Skills*
Facilitators: @ruth_menamin and @GramHanne
🗓️ 29th March 8am-10.00am (UK time)
📩 Contact: CATs@gcu.ac.uk to secure a place
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This week we’re looking at a paper that examined how exposure to example sentence structures affects a child’s ability to produce well-formed sentences, in children with and without #DevLangDis . The authors of this paper were @MariaGarraffa , Moreno Coco and Holly Branigan.
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This year's annual online lecture will be in celebration of the life of Prof James Law #DevLangDis @RCSLT @WileyHealth . We invite everyone interested in children's communication disorders to join us. 22nd June, 0930 BST. Free to sign up here rcslt.org/events/ijlcd-annua…
ALT IJLCD Annual Lecture 2022. Building on the Legacy of Professor James Law OBE - New Horizons in Developmental Language Disorder.
Proud to be part of @BilingMatters new social enterprise
More people around the world are set to be supported and encouraged to speak more than one language thanks to the success of an Edinburgh initiative. A new social enterprise is launching today focusing on multilingual education. @BilingMatters edin.ac/3NBgpI7
Call open for research on Language Acquisition in Diverse linguistic, social and cognitive circumstances. Great group of colleagues @TheoMarinis. Submit your abstract.
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🎈Bilingualism Matters is celebrating its launch as a new spin-out social enterprise on March 30
🗓Don't forget to register to watch our launch event live stream! Sign up here👇
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#bilingualism #language #bilingualismmatters
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We are group of #ECR in #linguistics concerned with linguistic discrimination in #academic #publishing. We propose to develop a community-based solution to fight it: a pool of volunteer proofreaders who are confident in English and can help their peers! 🧵
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How to teach metaphors to kids? Using metaphors! Here's a short piece we wrote with @t_kalandadze and @Eli_Tonini for the series @FrontYoungMinds and intended for kids. Reviewed by Rosa (age 10) & Kirsty (age 9), mentored by @MariaGarraffa & @KarlaHolmboe kids.frontiersin.org/article…
New exciting British Council grant for promoting clinical linguistics in SouthAsia, opportunities for young researchers to come soon! @BritishCouncil @UEA_SLT @uniofeastanglia @RazakRogayah
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What a lovely Saturday at the UEA open day. Our students represented us amazingly, @CognusTherapies inspired many, and the staff did a pretty good job too. The visitors? ... can't wait to see hopefully all of them September 2022! @UEA_Health
First open day @UEA_SLT . Ready to promote research on language learning and the benefits of multilingualism @LangLifeLab
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The SLT team at @UEA_Health would like to give a very warm welcome to Dr @MariaGarraffa, our newest member of the team. Exciting plans ahead already. You can find out more about Maria through @LangLifeLab or langlife.co.uk
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Ceardlann ar líne: Léitheoireacht sa dá theanga. Cláraigh anseo: eventbrite.com/e/reading-in-…
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Join us @UniRdg_CeLM @UCLBiLingo @MultiLingOslo to find out more about our Languages in Lockdown project with #multilingual families. Please RT! 🙏
Link to pre-registration: bit.ly/3sqVZqc
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Students in Gaelic school programs have same if not better reading skills in English. Support biliteracy with any language! Read our open access study @bordnagaidhlig @TesScotland mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/1/55
Psychology PhD Scholarships from September 2021. hw.ac.uk/uk/scholarships/psy….
Look at project on Hate speech by multilingual speakers: linguistics strategies and psychological markers (hw.ac.uk/documents/SoSS-2021…). For informal enquiries, contact Dr Maria Garraffa (m.garraffa@hw.ac.uk)
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Given that signed language is ‘written in the body’ what relationship can be observed between the way signers think of their bodies as linguistic vehicles vs other body representations? THREAD based on a recent article from @HWPsych @LangLifeLab & @HeriotWattBSL 1/10
New paper on implicit learning of grammar via story telling. Very effective paradigm! Materials on OSF DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/XPHW6.
Positive Effects of Passive Voice Exposure on Children’s Passive Production During a Classroom Story-telling Training tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…