{"id":2,"date":"2018-05-25T09:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T08:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-09-18T17:35:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T16:35:20","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-220\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Unorganized\/Serratrice-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Unorganized\/Serratrice-2.jpg 224w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Unorganized\/Serratrice-2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ludovica Serratrice<\/strong> is\u00a0Director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CELM) at the University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p><u>Areas of Interest<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Language development in monolingual and multilingual contexts<\/li>\n<li>Discourse-pragmatics in connection to the use and acquisition of reference<\/li>\n<li>Processing of complex syntactic constructions in school-age children<\/li>\n<li>Metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children<\/li>\n<li>Sentence-level processing in adult bilinguals<\/li>\n<li>English, Italian, Spanish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:l%2E%73%65rra%74rice@r%65%61d%69%6Eg%2Ea%63.%75k\">l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Unorganized\/photoAle.2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Unorganized\/photoAle.2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Unorganized\/photoAle.2-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Unorganized\/photoAle.2-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/bilingual-children\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/Unorganized\/photoAle.2.jpg 1593w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alessandra Valentini<\/strong> is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading.<\/p>\n<p><u>Areas of Interest<\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Language development in monolingual and bilingual learners<\/li>\n<li>Vocabulary acquisition in school-aged children<\/li>\n<li>Listening and reading comprehension<\/li>\n<li>The relationship between language and cognition<\/li>\n<li>The relationship between language and literacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:a.valentini@reading.ac.uk\">a.valentini@reading.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ludovica Serratrice is\u00a0Director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CELM) at the University of Reading. 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