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
How wonderful to meet up with Kate Crowe during her brief visit to Sydney (from Iceland). We had time to catch up on our current work and to dream about the future. Sydney in winter did not disappoint either.
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| Sharynne and Kate |
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| Thanks for the children's books in Faroese and Icelandic! |
Aðjúnkt Kathryn Crowe and A/Prof Þóra Másdóttir teach and research in the Talmeinafræði program at the University of Iceland
https://ugla.hi.is/kennsluskra/index.php?tab=nam&chapter=namsleid&id=820072_20176&kennsluar=2023
I enjoyed visiting to see exactly where they worked - and Icelandic research into speech development and their home language maintenance research with their multilingual children.
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| Working on a book chapter and a Memorandum of Understanding between our universities |
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| McLeod and Crowe (2018) posters in Iceland |
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| Icelandic speech development poster featuring Lubbi and based on Masdottir & McLeod (2021) |
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| Kate with her CSU award |
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| Kate's office |
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| Kate and Thora are currently undertaking a large-scale randomised controlled trial in preschools across Iceland to support multilingual children's speech and language development. |
Dr Kate Crowe is both an Adjunct Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University and Adjunct at The University of Iceland. It was good to see where she spends a lot of time each day.
We are working on creating a Memorandum of Understanding between Charles Sturt University and the University of Iceland https://english.hi.is/university/partner_universities
Sharynne McLeod is Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University. She was awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2010-2014) titled Speaking my Languages: International Speech Acquisition in Australia. This blog was designed to archive what she learned and accomplished during the Fellowship. For details about the Fellowship see the original post. The Multilingual Children's Speech website was created as part of this Fellowship. It contains resources for over 60 languages.
The blog has continued beyond 2014 to record our continuing work to make a difference in children's lives throughout the world. Since this blog commenced Professor McLeod's Speech-Language-Multilingualism team has included:
Postdoctoral scholars: Dr Kate Crowe, Dr Sarah Verdon, Dr Sarah Masso, Dr Cen (Audrey) Wang, Dr Michelle Brown
PhD students: Nicole Watts Pappas, Jane McCormack, Jacqui Barr, Kate Crowe, Sarah Verdon, Sarah Masso, Suzanne Hopf, Ben Pham, Helen Blake, Anna Cronin, Natalie Hegarty, Anniek van Doornik, Nicole McGill, Van Tran, Belinda Downey, Marie Ireland, Kate Margetson
Masters students: Rebekah Lockart, Hang Nguyen, Vấn Phạm
Honours students: Bethany Toohill, Hannah Wilkin, Erin Holliday, Nicole Limbrick, Charlotte Howland and Holly McAlister.
Summaries:
2010, Feb-July: here
2010, Feb-Dec: here
2011, Feb-June: here
2011, July-Sept: here
2011, Oct-Dec: here
2012, Jan-Feb: here
2012, March-May: here
2012, June-July: here
2012, Aug-Sept: here
2012, Oct-2013-Feb: here
2013, March-May: here
2013, June-August: here
2013, Sept-2014, Feb: here
2014, March-June: here