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