About us

Ludovica Serratrice is Director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CELM) at the University of Reading.

Areas of Interest

• Language development in monolingual and multilingual contexts
• Discourse-pragmatics in connection to the use and acquisition of reference
• Processing of complex syntactic constructions in school-age children
• Metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children
• Sentence-level processing in adult bilinguals
• English, Italian, Spanish

Email: l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alessandra Valentini is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.

Areas of Interest

• Language development in monolingual and bilingual learners
• Vocabulary acquisition in school-aged children
• Listening and reading comprehension
• The relationship between language and cognition
• The relationship between language and literacy

Email: a.valentini@reading.ac.uk