Just published: Multilingual speech acquisition by Vietnamese-English–speaking children and adult family members

 JUST PUBLISHED: 

McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Margetson, K., Tran, V. H., Wang, C., Phạm, B., To, L., & Huynh, K. (2023). Multilingual speech acquisition by Vietnamese-English–speaking children and adult family members. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-21-00669

Thank you to the whole team the authors and the following (see p. 42 for these acknowledgments) “The authors thank Katherine White, Holly McAlister, Craig Margetson, Olivia Richards, Jake Sheader, and Evelyn Sowter for assistance with data entry and analysis.” 

What a huge achievement to undertake this research and to see it published. Now let’s see it assist speech pathologists, family members (and others) to support children’s speech.

International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14) - presentations from CSU

 There were three presentations from CSU at this week's International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB14) at Macquarie University in Sydney:

• Keynote - "Cross-linguistic perspectives on children’s speech development" - Sharynne McLeod
• Workshop - "Home language maintenance: Connecting children, families and classrooms" - VietSpeech (Sharynne McLeod, Kate Margetson, Van Tran) and Little Multilingual Minds (Paola Escudero, Gloria Pino Escobar, Chloé Diskin-Holdaway)
• Poster - "Speech sound development of Fijian school-aged children" - Holly McAlister, Suzanne Hopf & Sharynne McLeod

VietSpeech superheros ready for the workshop
 Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod, Van Tran

CSU News - National linguistics award for speech pathology researcher

Congratulations Dr Van Tran, winner of the 2023 Michael Clyne Prize for the best thesis with a focus on  immigrant bilingualism and language contact, on being featued in the latest edition of CSU News https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/national-linguistics-award-for-speech-pathology-researcher 

Tip of the day: Downloading publications from CRO

Did you know that you can download your list of research outputs directly from CRO to update your CV etc. Here's how:

1. Go to the CRO public portal
2. Log in at the very bottom of the page (little tiny log in link!)
3. In your profile page, click on the heading “Research outputs” under your name and profile picture.
4. At the bottom of the list of publications you will see an option to ‘Download list’ in a variety of formats
5. Simply click on the  desired format (use RIS (RefMan) for EndNote).

I hope that helps!

ECIR members at SPA conference in Hobart

ECIR members include speech-language pathologists from across the world. At the recent Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, held in Hobart 21-24 May 2023, Charles Sturt University ECIR members along with students presented the following papers/posters:

1. Hugo Farrant & Suzanne Hopf: Who are the caregivers in paediatric caregiver training: A review.
2. Suzanne Hopf: A comparison of the self-reported learning outcomes of speech-language pathology students attending either a virtual study abroad or standard virtual work-integrated learning experience
3. Alex Long & Suzanne Hopf: Speech Pathology and Police collaboration to assist people with speech, language, and communication needs
4. Kate Margetson, Sharynne McLeod & Sarah Verdon: Non-English sounds in English speech assessment: Patterns of cross-linguistic transfer in Vietnamese-Australian children’s speech
5. Sharynne McLeod: What you’ve always wanted to ask about treating speech sound disorders: and open panel discussion
6. Sharynne McLeod: Children's speech development, assessment and intervention in 50 languages
7. Sharynne McLeod & Julie Marshall: Communication, swallowing and the Sustainable Development Goals
8. Rebecca Shields & Suzanne Hopf: Intervention for residual speech errors in adolescents and adults: a systematized review

The team were particularly proud of our PhD and MSpeechPath students who presented on diverse fields of practice with confidence and skill beyond their years. This was a great showing for our team. Importantly, some of the above already have associated publications, whilst the remainder are in preparation or under review. With multiple projects finishing up, you’ll be seeing plenty more publications and presentations from other ECIR team members and students in the year ahead. 

Author – Dr Suzanne Hopf, CSU

Rebecca Shields

Alex Long, Suzanne Hopf, Sharynne McLeod

Congratulations Dr Van Tran - Australian Linguistic Society Michael Clyne Prize

Congratulations to Dr Van Tran who receievd this wonderful announcement that she has been awarded the 2023 Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) Michael Clyne Prize (https://als.asn.au/alsgrant/details/6/michael_clyne_prize).

 
The prize is awarded "for the best PhD or MA (Research) thesis with a focus on some aspect of immigrant bilingualism and language contact. The thesis must have been passed or the degree awarded at an Australian university. This Prize is jointly administered by the Australian Linguistic Society and the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia.

 
The winner will be awarded a $1,000 cash prize and a contribution of up to $500 to cover costs (e.g. travel, accommodation, conference registration) for the recipient to attend either ALS or ALAA to present a paper on the research. The recipient will be guaranteed a slot at their chosen conference. A summary of the thesis will be published in newsletters of both associations when the award is announced. The winner will be announced at the AGMs of each society".

Here is the email she received: 

I am writing regarding your application for the 2023 ALS Michael Clyne Prize. I am delighted to be able to tell you that your application was successful, and you have been awarded the Prize. Your application was highly regarded by all on the panel, and you were unanimously ranked first among the applicants. Your thesis is a remarkable achievement of scholarship of the highest quality. We congratulate you on your work, and on the award of this Prize. 

 

In 2022 Dr Van Tran was awarded the CSU Higher Degree by Research Thesis of the Year.

Q1 publication for Carmen Huser

The European Early Childhood Education Research Journal has been upgraded to a quartile 1 (Q1) ranking. Congratulations ECIR member Carmen Huser on your article  ‘Young Children’s Assent and Dissent in Research: Agency, Privacy and Relationships within Ethical Research Spaces’ in this journal.  

ECIR successes in 2022

ECIR successes in 2022

• 5 grants (+3 in submission)

• 2 books (+ 2 books in preparation)

• 16 book chapters

• 29 journal articles

• 37 conference presentations

• 23 HDR students (PhD, Masters, Honours) supervised by ECIR members

Congratulations and thank you everyone.

Early Childhood Voices Conference 2022 (ECV2022)

Early Childhood Voices Conference 2022 (ECV2022)

https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/

In 2022 ECIR hosted a free online conference: 5-9 December 2022 with FREE registration via Eventbrite

• 1956 registrations 72 countries
• 95 presentations from 25 countries
• 6 international and national keynotes
• Views during the conference: YouTube - 3,517 views + Google - 6,431 views from 1,358 users

There were people from 72 countries participating in ECV2022: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Germany, Ghana, Granada, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Réunion, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), United Kingdom (includes England, Regno Unito, Northern Ireland, Scotland), United States of America, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

ECIR members were the committee members:

Chairs: Sharynne McLeod, Shukla Sikder

Conference Secretary: Carolyn Gregoric

Scientific review committee: Sharynne McLeod (chair), Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe, Michelle Brown, Kathryn Crowe, Jessamy Davies, Lysa Dealtry, Cheree Dean, Belinda Downey, Sheena Elwick, Leanne Gibbs, Julian Grant, Carolyn Gregoric, Laura Hoffman, Suzanne Hopf, Marie Ireland, Nicola Ivory, Olebeng Mahura, Linda Mahony, Kate Margetson, Holly McAlister, Nicole McGill, Anne McLeod, Jahirul Mullick, Elizabeth Murray, Andi Salamon, Shukla Sikder, Natalie Thompson, Kelly Tribolet, Van Tran, Sarah Verdon, Audrey (Cen) Wang, Cherie Zischke

Organisation committee: Shukla Sikder (chair), Jessamy Davies, Cheree Dean, Nicole Longhurst, Sharynne McLeod, Andi Salmon

Promotion/Social media committee: Nicole Longhurst (chair), Josephine Ohenewa Bampoe, Leanne Gibbs, Anne McLeod, Sarah Verdon

Children’s voices committee: Sharynne McLeod (chair), Belinda Downey, Lysa Dealtry, Jenny Dwyer, Julian Grant, Elizabeth Murray, Azizur Rahman, Shukla Sikder

During ECV2022 we also hosted Children Draw Talking Global Online Galleries displaying 199 drawings from 25 countries https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains/early-childhood-voices-conference-2022/children-draw-talking-gallery-1-the-world/

14 ECIR members are now analysing these data for presentation and publication

We plan to host another ECV conference in 2024.

 

Welcome to the ECIR blog

Welcome to the Early Childhood Interdisciplinary Research (ECIR) Group Blog at Charles Sturt University in Australia. ECIR is a transformative research program promoting social justice for children, families and practitioners within early childhood. 

• We build capacity for engaging in transformative research within our group and with other researchers.
• We are funded by a Charles Sturt University Sturt Scheme grant from 2022-2024 and have approximately 40 interdisciplinary members who are educators, nurses, speech pathologists, physiotherapists, psychologists, linguists, and data scientists. 

Our members are academics, adjuncts and research higher degree students at Charles Sturt University.

Find out more about us here: 

• https://earlychildhoodresearch.csu.domains
• https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/organisations/early-childhood-research-group

ECIR leadership team: Dr Carolyn Gregoric, Professor Sharynne McLeod,
Professor Julian Grant, Dr Libbey Murray,
A/Prof Sarah Verdon (Dr Suzanne Hopf)