Research Projects

• Between 1988 and 2000, I was involved in three consecutive ESRC-funded research projects on language maintenance and choice in the Chinese community in Tyneside in the North East of England.
• In 2006-8, I worked on another ESRC-funded project on multilingual practices of complementary schools in England (RES-000-23-1180), with Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge at Birmingham, the late Peter Martin at University of East London and Vally Lytra formerly at King’s College, London.
• I was also involved in a number of ESRC seminar series on the assessment of language development of multilingual children, and complementary schools for multilingual, minority ethnic children.
• I have also been involved in a number of other research projects on grammatical profiling of normally developing and speech disordered young English-speaking children (Nuffield Foundation) and reliability of identification and referral of speech and communication disorders in young non-standard or non-native English-speaking children (ESRC).