The end of 2019 and beginning of 2020 was dedicated to finishing and defending my doctoral thesis at the University of Valencia. At the beginning of October, I submitted the final version of my thesis, titled: “Anxiety and Self-Related Constructs in Learners Who Stutter in the Learning of English as a Foreign Language”. Tying up…
I was very pleasantly surprised recently to be asked to write a blogpost for the Redefining Stammering website. I very much appreciate the aims behind Redefining Stammering, which are to challenge the way stammering is understood, thought about, and discussed. Furthermore, the website promotes pride in stammering as a legitimate and naturally occurring way of…
This is an exciting post to make as it celebrates the first time I have been part of a scientific article that has been published in Spanish. Written along with my PhD thesis supervisor, our article “disfemia y ansiedad en el aprendizaje de ingles como lengua extranjera” was published last month in the Revista Española…
I was delighted to be invited to give a talk at the Universidad Jaume I and on February the 15th I made the trip north from Valencia to to Castellón to speak to teachers and students from the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty. I discussed how and why stuttering manifests itself and some general guidelines…
Ronan Miller está haciendo un doctorado en España, investigando cómo la ansiedad afecta a personas que tartamudean en las clases de lengua extranjera. Él cree que algunos comportamientos de las personas que tartamudean en realidad pueden ayudar en el aprendizaje de una lengua extranjera, y ofrece 10 consejos. A pesar de que la tartamudez…
La mayoría de la población mundial es bilingüe, cambiando con fluidez entre idiomas según se requiera y demostrando la belleza de la comunicación entre lenguas y culturas. La acción y el lenguaje están inextricablemente unidos, y nuestras vidas están definidas por cómo entrelazamos el lenguaje con nuestras experiencias, esperanzas, problemas y necesidades. La capacidad de…
I was delighted to be able to take part in the Stammbassadors project organized by Action For Stammering Children recently. I feel strongly that we should support young people who stammer as much as possible. I wish projects like this had been around when I was a child. Check out my video below and…
I was asked to write a few words about my journey through stammering and foreign language learning to bilingualism for the Bilingualism London Clinical Excellence Network. The majority of the world’s population is bilingual, moving fluidly between different languages when required and demonstrating the beauty of interlingual and intercultural communication. Action and language are inextricably…
My PhD supervisor and I were recently asked to contribute to a special issue of the European Journal of Special Needs. We wrote about the implications of foreign language anxiety for students who stammer A study on anxiety and stuttering, written for the European Journal of Special Needs Education (in press) The aim of this…
It was wonderful to be invited to speak at this fantastic event at UCL along with a number of other speakers who stammer. I shared some of my experiences of language learning and living abroad and learning a language.