I am sociolinguist and member of the Sociolinguistic Lab at the Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany), with training in language documentation and conservation from the Linguistics program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (2017). My main research interests are language attitudes and ideologies, language documentation and conservation, and the general sociolinguistic issues in my geographic of expertise, East Timor. My PhD used survey and interview data to describe attitudes toward Tetun Dili, East Timor’s national language.

My background in linguistics, multilingualism, and education were essential in Australia, where I provided academic support to the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme working with Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay and Dhurga students in the Master’s of Indigenous Language Education program at the University of Sydney; instructional support for such courses as Structure of English, Language and Society, Cross-cultural Communication, and Language and Social Interaction at the Australian National University; and research support on such projects as the Ku Waru Child Language Socialization Study (Alan Rumsey, PI-ANU), the Kiriwina Dictionary (Andrew Pawley, PI-ANU), and Phonetic Variation in Central Vanuatu (Rosey Billington PI-University of Melbourne).

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