Ludovica Serratrice
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Professor of Bi-Multilingualism
- Research Division Lead
- Module Convenor PL3ML/PLMML Multilingualism and Language Impairment across the Lifespan
Areas of interest
Language representations in bilingual speakers: using structural priming to investigate how bilingual children and adults represent two languages in one cognitive system, and how crosslinguistic influence arises from to co-activation of syntactic structuresLanguage comprehension in multilingual children: investigating how children from multilingual backgrounds make inferences to understand narrative and expository texts in listening and reading in the language of schooling.
Linguage background in bi-multilingual children: developing the Q-BEx questionnaire (https://www.q-bex.org/) to assist researchers, teachers, and speech and language therapists in collecting detailed infomation on language and literacy experiences relevant to language outcomes.
Training on multilinguialism for non-academic users: creating materials and training opportunities on multilingualism and language development in children through the FutureLearn platform: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-multilingual-childrens-language-development
Teaching
Research centres and groups
- The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development:
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (2000)
- MA in Language Acquisition, University of Essex (1995)
- Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Istituto Universitario Lingue Moderne Milano (1994)
- Diploma in Conference Interpreting, Scuola Superiori Interpreti e Traduttori Milano (1990).
Professional bodies/affiliations