Our VietSpeech grant (https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech), funded by the Australian Research Council, is going well. It consists of four studies:Study 1: Vietnamese-Australian families’ linguistic multi-competence and language maintenance
Study 2: Australian Vietnamese-English-speaking children’s speech acquisition in Vietnamese and English
Study 3: Development of a multilingual speech program to be implemented by English-speaking professionals
Study 4: Feasibility and efficacy of a Vietnamese-Australian children’s speech maintenance program
Here is an update on our current progress:
- Data collection for Study 1 is complete with 271 eligible participants. Data analysis is almost complete and we are finalising manuscripts based on the data (led by Dr Audrey Wang).
- Data collection for the first manuscript for Study 3 is complete and insights from experts from around the world is being compiled (led by Dr Sarah Verdon and Prof Sharynne McLeod).
- The following paper has been published relating to Study 2:
McLeod, S. & Crowe, K. (2018). Children’s consonant acquisition in 27 languages: A cross-linguistic review. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication doi:10.1044/2018_AJSLP-17-0100
Free download: https://ajslp.pubs.asha.org/article.aspx?articleid=2701897 - Typical speech acquisition posters have been created based on McLeod and Crowe (2018) and are available here: https://www.csu.edu.au/research/vietspeech/publications. There has been a huge amount of interest in these posters and our speech acquisition paper on social media (Twitter link).
- Van Tran's PhD is going well. Her endorsement session was presented in September.
- Van Tran has been interviewed by the radio, newspaper and television in English and Vietnamese.
- Conference presentations based on research within the VietSpeech grant have occurred at:
- Current Issues in Child Bilingual Development conference at Macquarie University in Sydney (July)
- International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association conference in Malta (October)
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention in Boston (November)
