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Canadian linguist

Martha Crago CM is the Vice-Principal of Research and Innovation at McGill University. She is an internationally known expert on language acquisition, specializing in studying language acquisition across languages and learner groups. Crago received a B.A. in sociology and anthropology from McGill University in 1968 and a Ph.D. in communication sciences and disorders from McGill in 1988. She was employed at McGill from 1971 to 2005 and the University of Montreal from 2005 to 2007. She was the Vice-president of Research at Dalhousie University from 2007 until accepting her current position. She has also served as a visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics from 2005 to 2006. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in December 2017.

Publications

Evaluation of Minority-Language Children by Native Speakers, 1985
Cultural context in communicative interaction of Inuit children, 1988
Who Speaks What Language and Why? Language Use of Families in an Inuit Community, 1996

"Appointments to the Order of Canada". The Governor General of Canada. December 29, 2017. Archived from the original on February 2, 2018.

Alphonso, Caroline (Nov 1, 2005). "There's more to campus than just class time". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
"Martha Crago". Council of Canadian Academies. Retrieved 1 September 2010.

v t e Psycholinguistics
General	Psycholinguistics Motivation in second-language learning
Key concepts	Anxiety Aptitude Cognition Dyslexia Dysgraphia Goal-setting theory Learning styles Motivation in second-language learning Self-efficacy Self-regulation Willingness to communicate Working memory
Notable researchers	Max Coltheart Martha Crago Kata Csizér Zoltán Dörnyei Nick Ellis Judit Kormos James McClelland Sarah Mercer
Journals	Applied Psycholinguistics

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