As a leading expert in the field, Monika received her PhD from the University of Düsseldorf where she focused on language attrition in German Jewish refugees, who fled Germany before World War Two. And if you have ever looked up what attrition is, you will have come across her name. And to do so, Mattia and I are joined today by Professor Monika Schmid. And don’t worry if you don’t know what that is, we will be covering that in a minute.
So, as I said before, and as you can tell, from the episode title, we will be talking about language attrition. And I’m doing research on second language acquisition and first language change in adult language learners.
I’m a third year PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Hi, Mattia, would you like to introduce yourself? Today I’m joined by one of our volunteers, Mattia. It’s me, Eva-Maria and I’m really excited about today’s episode. Welcome back to another episode of much language such talk. She regularly also writes for The Conversation about related topics and, to date, has had over half a million reads!
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Her website, Language Attrition, collects information on language attrition and provides tips on how to study it for non-specialists and researchers alike. At Essex, Monika is a member of the Centre for Research in Language Development throughout the Lifespan (LaDeLi) and the Bilingualism Matters branch has published two monographs and edited several collected volumes and special issues of journals on attrition, most recently the Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition (2019).
In September 2013, she became a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, where in 2018 she became the Head of Department of Language and Linguistics. Previously, she has held positions at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. The topic of her thesis was First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance: the case of German Jews in Anglophone Countries – and currently Monika’s work focuses on various aspects of first language attrition, language change from learning new languages. Monika obtained her PhD in English Linguistics in 2000 from the Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf.
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