Dr. Lorna Caputo Greenall
Lorna Caputo Greenall studied Teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Birmingham, UK, before undertaking studies at the Centre for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) at the University of Bern. As an international school educator and researcher, Lorna is keenly interested in constructivist-based pedagogy and the language development of transnational communities. She completed her PhD in 2020 at the University of Bern, which explored the typical and atypical language development of young transnational multilingual children in international school settings. She has also published work on using Inquiry-Based Learning to teach additional languages. Lorna speaks regularly at global conferences and is involved in peer reviewing and academic publishing.
Her areas of interest are:
- Sociolinguistics
- Dynamic Model of Multilingualism
- Childhood Multilingualism
- Transnational Children and International Education
- Inquiry-Based Learning
- Language Attitudes and Ideologies
- Linguistics and Social Justice