Ronan Miller, PhD

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…

Personal reflections on shades of fluency

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…

Disfemia y ansiedad en el aprendizaje de inglés como lengua extranjera | Stuttering and anxiety in English as a foreign language learning

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…