Progression in Primary Languages project website
Study funded by UKRI (PI: Dr Rowena Kasprowicz)
The Progression in Primary Languages project is a four-year, longitudinal study exploring language learning in primary schools across England, which teach French, German, or Spanish. The project tracks children’s linguistic progression throughout Key Stage 2 (age 7 to 11) to build a detailed picture of how children’s language knowledge develops and the factors that affect children’s language learning.
Alongside collecting data in schools, I worked on individual differences, carrying out a survey about language attitudes with all year groups and a language aptitude test with Y6s (11 year-olds).
Keywords: language attitudes, Mauritius, multilingualism, reported and actual language use
Hannah Davidson
Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics and Associate Lecturer in German
I am a Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics at Newnham College, Cambridge and Associate Lecturer in German at the Open University.