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Training opportunity for CATs ECR/JCR members: 🖥️ Online workshop: *PPI Facilitation Skills* Facilitators: @ruth_menamin and @GramHanne 🗓️ 29th March 8am-10.00am (UK time) 📩 Contact: CATs@gcu.ac.uk to secure a place

@DrGBuckingham A lot of respect for this colleague

You know this is in America because it's the only country where professors are allowed to make the rules

This week we’re looking at a paper that examined how exposure to example sentence structures affects a child’s ability to produce well-formed sentences, in children with and without #DevLangDis . The authors of this paper were @MariaGarraffa , Moreno Coco and Holly Branigan.

This year's annual online lecture will be in celebration of the life of Prof James Law #DevLangDis @RCSLT @WileyHealth . We invite everyone interested in children's communication disorders to join us. 22nd June, 0930 BST. Free to sign up here rcslt.org/events/ijlcd-a…

Proud to be part of @BilingMatters new social enterprise

Call open for research on Language Acquisition in Diverse linguistic, social and cognitive circumstances. Great group of colleagues @TheoMarinis. Submit your abstract. frontiersin.org/research-topic…

🎈Bilingualism Matters is celebrating its launch as a new spin-out social enterprise on March 30 🗓Don't forget to register to watch our launch event live stream! Sign up here👇 forms.gle/17ehRqiVcSZDyH… #bilingualism #language #bilingualismmatters

We are group of #ECR in #linguistics concerned with linguistic discrimination in #academic #publishing. We propose to develop a community-based solution to fight it: a pool of volunteer proofreaders who are confident in English and can help their peers! 🧵

How to teach metaphors to kids? Using metaphors! Here's a short piece we wrote with @t_kalandadze and @Eli_Tonini for the series @FrontYoungMinds and intended for kids. Reviewed by Rosa (age 10) & Kirsty (age 9), mentored by @MariaGarraffa & @KarlaHolmboe kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New exciting British Council grant for promoting clinical linguistics in SouthAsia, opportunities for young researchers to come soon! @BritishCouncil @UEA_SLT @uniofeastanglia @RazakRogayah

What a lovely Saturday at the UEA open day. Our students represented us amazingly, @CognusTherapies inspired many, and the staff did a pretty good job too. The visitors? ... can't wait to see hopefully all of them September 2022! @UEA_Health

First open day @UEA_SLT . Ready to promote research on language learning and the benefits of multilingualism @LangLifeLab

The SLT team at @UEA_Health would like to give a very warm welcome to Dr @MariaGarraffa, our newest member of the team. Exciting plans ahead already. You can find out more about Maria through @LangLifeLab or langlife.co.uk

Ceardlann ar líne: Léitheoireacht sa dá theanga. Cláraigh anseo: eventbrite.com/e/reading-in-t…

@ljuba_pi @ERCGrantees @ERC_Research Congratulations! Very well deserved

I wrote my #ERC application while pregnant, started preparing for the interview just after E’s birth and left for Bruxelles carrying a USB key with a ppt and a baby Some say we can’t. But we can do it 💪 We can have it all 👩‍🎓👩‍💻👩‍🔬👩‍🚀🦸‍♀️ #ERC10kGrantees @ERCGrantees @ERC_Research

Join us @UniRdg_CeLM @UCLBiLingo @MultiLingOslo to find out more about our Languages in Lockdown project with #multilingual families. Please RT! 🙏 Link to pre-registration: bit.ly/3sqVZqc

Students in Gaelic school programs have same if not better reading skills in English. Support biliteracy with any language! Read our open access study @bordnagaidhlig @TesScotland mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/1/…

Psychology PhD Scholarships from September 2021. hw.ac.uk/uk/scholarship…. Look at project on Hate speech by multilingual speakers: linguistics strategies and psychological markers (hw.ac.uk/documents/SoSS…). For informal enquiries, contact Dr Maria Garraffa (m.garraffa@hw.ac.uk)