Current lab members
Shijun (Iris) Yu
Shijun (Iris) is a PhD student who is interested in exploring the superior perspective-taking ability in bilingual children. Metalinguistic skill is believed to be one of the contributing factors. Her current research focuses on training monolingual children on metalinguistic skills to see whether this could help them to reach a similar level of perspective-taking skills as bilinguals
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Michele Super
Michele is a Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics through the Distance Learning program, co-supervised by Prof. Dagmar Divjak, Prof. Maria Witek, and Prof. Andrea Krott. Her research interests are oriented towards the interface between language and music, specifically seeking to investigate the question of whether singing can be used to facilitate foreign language learning. The research process will include spoken, rhythmic, and musical presentations and repetitions of a specific Spanish verb pattern that is usually not learned explicitly by native speakers (the so-called ‘L-pattern’ affecting some irregular subjunctive verbs), with the aim of determining whether singing can help English-speaking adult learners of Spanish acquire the verb pattern more easily.
Paulina Salgado Garcia
Paulina is a psychologist and a PhD student at Krott’s lab, who is interested in exploring mental health benefits of bilingualism. To achieve this, she applies a variety of individual differences and longitudinal analytical tools across her PhD project. She studies a range of child cohorts, focusing on bilingual children in primary school settings, focussing at their executive functions, cognitive-social skills and general wellbeing and comparing them to their monolingual peers.
Mingsi (Emily) Tang
Mingsi (Emily) is a PhD student who is interested in the bilingual, and possibly bidialectal, Theory of Mind (ToM) advantage in children. Three accounts (i.e., the executive functioning account, the metalinguistic account, and the socio-pragmatic account) have been proposed for the bilingual ToM advantage, but none seems to provide a satisfactory explanation. Emily hopes to further explore these accounts and uncover the underlying mechanisms for bilinguals’ superior ToM ability.
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Hanan Nasser
Hanan’s research focuses on the language and cognitive developmental trajectories of bilingual preterm and full-term born infants. Hanan's research seeks to provide a comprehensive understanding of the influencing factors and individual differences that shape early childhood development in bilingual preterm infants. Her research aims to produce research outcomes that not only contribute to the academic field but also have real-world implications which will be instrumental in shaping evidence-based interventions and support systems that meet the unique needs of infants born prematurely in bilingual environments, with an aim to link research, policy and pract
Previous lab members
(PhD students and postdoctoral fellows)
Hanyan Yu, was visiting PhD student from Zhejiang University (China), now assistant professor at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai
Dr. Zlatomira Ilchovska, now postdoctoral researcher at York University
Dr. Yifan Wang, works now for private company in China
Dr. Felix Carter, now Research Associate at the University of Bristol.
Dr. Valeria Agostini, now teacher at a two-way immersion primary school in the U.K.
Dr. Cecilia Zuniga Montanez, now postdotoral research associate at the National Institute of Ecomonic and Social Research (NIESR)
Prof. Vincent DeLuca, now Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Dr. Asma Assaneea, now Assistant Professor at Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Zheni Goranova, now working as an Energy Analyst for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (UK government)
Dr. Isabella Fritz, now postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford
Dr. Beinan Zhou, was postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, works now for private company in China
Dr. Simon Snape, now Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Birmingham City University
Dr. Riadh Lebib, now consultant at SBT Human(s) Matter
Prof. Helen Breadmore, now Professor at University of Birmingham