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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
July 6, 2016
Humanitarian migrants' English language proficiency and integration: "All is well and good but the problem is language"
The 14th Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Conference: Research to results: Using evidence to improve outcomes for families is being held in Melbourne this week. Helen Blake is presenting a paper titled "Humanitarian
migrants' English language proficiency and integration: 'All is well and
good but the problem is language'" during the conference. The paper is
co-authored with myself and Laura Bennetts Kneebone. It uses data from the Building a new
life in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Humanitrian Migrants that is
overseen by the National Centre for Longitudinal Data, Department of Social
Services (DSS) www.dss.gov.au/ncld and
the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS). CSU has written a news
release about the research here.