CeLM Steering Committee

Institute Director

(l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of Interest: Language development in monolingual and multilingual contexts; Discourse-pragmatics and 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

Theme Lead (Language and Literacy)

Dr Fraibet Aveledo

(f.aveledo@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Language development and second language acquisition, especially the acquisition of grammar and semantics and its relation with non-linguistic cognition in children and adult; bilingualism, especially the effect of language on cognition.

Theme Co-Lead (Education)

Professor Suzanne Graham

(s.j.graham@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Second language learner strategies and their relationship with proficiency; reading and listening comprehension in a second language; vocabulary development; motivation for language learning.

Theme Co-Lead (Education)

Dr Rowena Kasprowicz

(r.kasprowicz@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Young language learners; classroom-based learning and foreign language pedagogy; development of grammatical knowledge and the role of explicit knowledge; individual differences in learning.

Theme Lead (Neuroscience)

Dr Christos Pliatsikas

(c.pliatsikas@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: The effects of bi-/multilingualism and the experience of learning additional languages on brain structure and function; behavioural and MRI techniques; native-like achievement in morphological and syntactic processing by second language learners.

Theme Lead (Health)

Dr Arpita Bose

(a.bose@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Word and non-word production in aphasia; lexical processing in bilingual aphasia; treatment and intervention of verbal production deficits in aphasia and apraxia; reading and writing disorders following brain injury; quality of life issues in stroke rehabilitation.

Theme Co-Lead (Migration)

Dr Federico Faloppa

(f.faloppa@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Sociolinguistics; history of the Italian language; discourse analysis; intercultural communication and miscommunication in multilingual contexts; migrant writings.

Theme Co-Lead (Migration)

Dr Tony Capstick

(tony.capstick@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Teacher education; the role of home language use in institutional settings; the role of English in mainstream schooling in developing countries; multilingualism; migration.

Bilingualism Matters Co-Lead

Dr Naomi Flynn

(n.flynn@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Pedagogy for multilingual learners in primary schools; Effective teachers of English and the nature of the curriculum for English; Bourdieuian analysis; Grounded Theory.

Bilingualism Matters Co-Lead

Dr Holly Joseph

(h.joseph@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Reading development and difficulties; Eye movements during reading; New word learning and vocabulary acquisition; Reading comprehension in children speak English as an Additional Language; Developmental disorders (DLD, ASD, dyslexia, reading comprehension difficulties).

Training Lead

Dr Ian Cunnings

(i.cunnings@reading.ac.uk)

Areas of interest: Psycholinguistics, especially sentence and discourse comprehension; Eye-tracking during reading and listening; Memory retrieval during language comprehension; First and second language acquisition; Multilingualism.