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Mathew Cieśla received his BA (cum laude) in psycholinguistics with a minor in German language and philology from New College at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA. In 2022, he received the Fulbright Award from the Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission to conduct research at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznań, Poland with Dr. Katarzyna Jankowiak and Dr. Efthymia Kapnoual of the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain and Language. Presently, Mathew holds a position at Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK as as a postgraduate researcher and demonstrator in the Department of Psychology. His Ph.D. work involving dialect density and the effects of dialect on primary language education is supervised by Dr. Glenn Williams and co-supervised by Dr. Hazel Blythe and Dr. Vera Kempe.


Research Interests

  • Late, second language acquisition

  • Lexico-semantic development in late, second language learners

  • Dialect effects on primary language education

  • Bidialectal-Bilingual comparisons

Funding

  • Fulbright Independent Research Award- Sep. 2022 to Aug. 2023

Awards

  • Student Lead Teaching Award - 2025 (Nomination)

  • Fulbright Independent Research Award - April 2022

  • Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award - March 2022

  • Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity First Place Award for Social Sciences- April 2019

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