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| Colour and movement in the Chinese New Year parade in Sydney |
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| Sharynne with speech pathologist, Susanne Rigby |
Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
February 6, 2014
Chinese New Year: The Year of the Horse
I was in Sydney for the Chinese New Year parade and
celebrations along with Suzanne Hopf, my PhD student and one of my ex-students
from The University of Sydney, Susanne Rigby (nee Perks) who practices as a speech pathologist in Sydney. Sydney is home for
many people across Asia, and many different countries were represented in the
parade that lasted for over an hour. In the last Australian census, the second
most commonly spoken language was recorded as Mandarin, with Cantonese and
Vietnamese being amongst the top five. It is great to see that Sydney embraces
and celebrates its multicultural and multilingual composition.