Carmen Silvestri
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Email
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Location
Colchester Campus
Profile
- heritage languages, complementary schools, multilingual education, language and identity, linguistic ethnography
Qualifications
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MA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilisations University of Florence (2014)
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BA in Linguistics and Cultural Mediation University for Foreigners of Siena (2012)
Research and professional activities
Thesis
Heritage languages in primary schools: understanding identity and pedagogy in multilingual London
This doctoral project examines the role of multilingual education in post-Brexit England with the aim to understand how children perform and negotiate identities in contexts of superdiversity and investigates multilingual practices and pedagogy in an Italian complementary school in London. CHASE (AHRC) funded project: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2420884
Supervisor: Tracey Costley , Hannah Gibson