I help students prepare for placements, work through communication on placement and assist with academic language in assignments. I’m working with English for Academic purposes, English for Specific Purposes (Social work, medical, legal, mental health) and English as a Lingua Franca on a daily basis. I assist international and CALD students with English communication. I’m attached to the Social Work department, but we work through all of the practice based courses in the faculty. I’m still at Monash! I’m working for SASU- the Student Academic Skills Unit with the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. I’m also moving into applying some of these play and cognitive ideas into English language teaching, particularly using games to teach (board games and roleplaying games, mostly). I’m particularly interested in how people describe and refer to imaginary people and worlds, and how it interacts with reality. I’m working with data from Video Games Awesome, Critical Role, Shield of Tomorrow as well as offline game groups. My PhD was about Dungeons and Dragons and I’ve also done work on Video Game Let’s Plays and science fiction. I like to think of myself as a Ludolinguist. I’m solidly in the cognitive semantics/pragmatics camp, and particularly in communication of imagination and the language of imaginative play in adults. What area of linguistics interests you the most? I found I, while I was interested in archaeology, I wanted to DO linguistics, so here I am! I think what really sold me on it was how much language can tell us about society, culture, history and how we conceive of and understand the world and interact with it. Honestly, I started in archaeology and had linguistics as an extra elective in my Arts degree. I’m currently studying a Master of Teaching English to Speaker of Other Languages (TESOL), so I’m still going! What led you to study linguistics? I started my PhD at Monash in late 2009 and submitted in mid-2017, finally completing in October 2017. I did my undergraduate from 2003 to 2007. I studied linguistics at both an undergraduate and honours level (at LaTrobe) and as a PhD. Spanish and Latin American studies (in European languages)Ĭatherine Cook When and at what level did you study linguistics? School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
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