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Episode 64 - Katie Mansfield on working-class children & standard English in the classroom


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Show notes for Episode 64

Here are the show notes for Episode 64, in which Raj and Dan talk to Katie Mansfield, PhD Researcher at The University of Sheffield & Lecturer in Education at The University of Gloucestershire about:

  • Her research on working-class children, non-standard English and style shifting at school

  • Combining approaches from linguistics and psychology to develop a suitable methodology 

  • Working memory, executive function and style shifting

  • School and government policies on standard English and how they affect classroom practice, especially for working-class students

  • How her A-Level study prepared her for degree and post-graduate work in linguistics

  • Katie’s previous work on representations of Meghan Markle in the UK press 

  • Katie’s ResearchGate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Katie-Mansfield 

    University of Sheffield Alumni profile: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/undergraduate/alumni-profiles/katie-mansfield 

    A discussion of the research methodologies used in this PhD project: https://beonlineconference.com/do-differences-in-working-memory-and-executive-functioning-affect-the-use-of-standard-english-in-working-class-childrens-speech/ 

    The Meghan Markle research: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363693792_The_Architecture_of_Racism_Sexism_and_Misogyny_A_Critical_Discourse_Analysis_of_the_Representation_of_Meghan_Markle_by_the_British_Press 

    Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

    Contributors

    Lisa Casey 

    blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

    Dan Clayton 

    blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

    Jacky Glancey 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

    Raj Rana

    Matthew Butler 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

    Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 


    Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

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