Dr Merle Mahon

Research summary

 My research focuses on deaf children's spoken language development and on the role of gesture in language development. I am currently collaborating with colleagues in the multi-centre BEARS study funded by NIHR award 201608,examining outcomes for deaf children and deaf teenagers who use cochlear implants. My research interests also include bi/multilingualism and how children learn spoken English when English is an additional language at home.

I use both qualitative and quantitative research methods (Conversation Analysis, questionnaire and interview techniques, experimental designs). Much of my work involves the collection, analysis  and archiving of longitudinal video data sets.

Collaborators: Dr Debi Vickers (Cambridge University); Dr Frances Early (Cambridge UniversityHospitals NHS Foundation Trust); Dr Nejra van-Zalk (Imperial College London);  Prof Li Wei and Dr Froso Argyri (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society); Prof Doris Bamiou (UCL Ear Institute)

Teaching summary

Departmental Graduate Tutor in the Language and Cognition Department, Division of Psychology and Language Science, Faculty of Brain Science UCL

Contributor to Modules SLAN0005; SLAN0006; PALS0004; 

Current PhD students:  Mario Bustos (with Dr Fiona Kyle);  Rima Alhaider (with Prof Chris Donlan); Disa Witkowska (with Prof Courtenay Norbury)

Education

University College London

Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 1998

University of South Africa, Pretoria

First Degree, Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | 1978

University of the Witwatersrand

First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 1972

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