Language attitudes

Research for the Progression in Primary Languages project

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.

Ecologies of Creole Multilingualism workshop

Organisation of a hybrid workshop about Creole Multilingualism

Language attitudes towards Mauritian Creole

Study funded by AHRC In order to compare language attitudes and reported language use expressed in interviews with actual language choices, I use the broad theoretical framework of Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) (Giles, 2016) as this provides scope to explore how/whether participants changed the way they spoke (either using another language entirely or modifying features of the same language) to accommodate their interlocuter.

Language attitudes towards Telugu

Language attitudes towards Telugu