People

Carmen Silvestri

Postgraduate Research Student
Department of Language and Linguistics
 Carmen Silvestri

Profile

Ask me about
  • heritage languages, complementary schools, multilingual education, language and identity, linguistic ethnography

Qualifications

  • MA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilisations University of Florence (2014)

  • 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

Contact

cs20842@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus