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Enlli Thomas is Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Welsh at Bangor University, and Professor of Education Research. She has been a Visiting Professor at Umeå University, Sweden since 2018, and is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Learned Society of Wales Hugh Owen Medal for outstanding educational research in Wales.
Her main research interests and expertise span psycholinguistic approaches to the study of bilingual language acquisition, including children’s acquisition of complex structures under conditions of minimal language input, bilingual assessment (psychometric), and education approaches to language transmission, acquisition and use. She has conducted research and published widely in many areas of language study. These span papers on aspects of bilingual acquisition, including impact factors influencing successful L1-L2 acquisition; bilingual transfer; bilingual assessment; bilingual literacy; Executive Function and bilingualism; socio-economic status and language abilities; and factors influencing language use. She gives regular invited lectures to practitioners and child-care workers both in the education and in the mental health sector on topics relating to language development and bilingualism, and had made regular appearances on tv and radio as an expert informant. She has also been invited as a Keynote at numerous international conferences. Her work has also generated substantial national impact - most notably in the development of statutory Welsh language initiatives that are operational in schools across Wales.
She has been involved as a co-author on a number of successful large-scale research grants, looking at language transmission practices in the home (Welsh Language Board), cognitive effects of bilingualism across the lifespan (ESRC), developing Welsh language assessment tools (Welsh Assembly Government), neuropsychological assessment of bilingual Welsh-English speakers (North Wales Research Committee & West Wales NHS Trust Research and Development Grants Awarding Committee) and bilingualism and dementia/Parkinson's (ESRC). More recently, she was co-I on the CorCenCC National Welsh Corpus project (£1.8 Million - ESRC/AHRC) where she led on the development of a pedagogical toolkit for use in schools. She has also led on various Welsh Government funded projects related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
She was a core member of the Executive of the ESRC Centre for Research on Education in Theory and Practice 2007-2012.
In 2014 she became Head of School for the School of Education and Human Development, before returning to focus on her core research in 2018.
Gwybodaeth Cyswllt
Position: Director of Research and Impact
Email: enlli.thomas@bangor.ac.uk
Phone: 01248 383053
Location: Eifionydd, Normal Site
Addysgu ac Arolygiaeth
Teaching and Supervision
XAC-2033 Ymchwilio mewn Plentyndod
XAC-3009 Amlieithrwydd mewn Plentyndod
XAE-3009 Multilingualism in Childhood
XMC-4099 Dwyieithrwydd mewn Addysg
MA Supervision
PhD Supervision
Diddordebau Ymchwil
Selected research grants held
2022
Welsh Government (Collaborative Evidence Network): Impact of the pandemic: Welsh-medium recruitment (Thomas & Lloyd-Williams, £62,000)
2021
Welsh Government/GwE: Ein Llais Ni (Thomas, £63,200)
2020
Welsh Government: The impact of covid-19 on non-Welsh-speaking families with children in Welsh immersion schools (Thomas, Lloyd-Williams, & Waters, £75,000)
2019
Hefcw: Provision of Welsh-medium STEM subjects (Thomas, £39,974)
ESRC IAA: Addressing the literacy needs of bilinguals learning to read and write in languages with transparent orthographies (Thomas, Owen, Young, Lloyd-Williams, Fontaine, Aldridge & Sullivan, £14,800)
2017
GwE/Welsh Government: Y Gymraeg mewn Addysg (Thomas, £65,000)
2016
ESRC/AHRC: Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg Cyfoes (The National Corpus of Contemporary Welsh): A community driven approach to linguistic corpus construction (Knight, Morris, Fitzpatrick, Rayson, Thomas, Stonelake, Evas, Spasic, £1.8 million)
2015
Welsh Language Commissioner Office: Ymchwil i Sefyllfa gyfredol addysg Gymraeg ar gyfer dysgwyr 3-16 oed/Research into the current state of Welsh education for 3- to 16-year-old learners (Cwmni Iaith (Jones, PI) & Bangor University (Thomas & Williams, £10,980)
Post 16 Education Consortia: Datblygu Systemau a Gweithdrefniadau i Fesur y Defnydd o’r Gymraeg mewn Addysg/Developing Systems and Processes to Measure the Use of Welsh in Education (Cwmni Gweiniaith (Roberts – co-PI) & Bangor University (Thomas, co-PI, Williams, Jones & Young, £35,000)
2014
National Literacy Trust: Evaluation of Premier League Reading Stars Cymru (Ware, Thomas (co-PIs), Williams, Young, Kyffin & Elliott, £16,000)
2011
Welsh Government: Exploring the role of classroom language transmission practices in developing L1/L2 fluency in Welsh (Thomas & Lewis, £10,000).
2010
ESRC: Bilingualism as a protective factor in age-related neurodegenerative disorders (Clare, Gathercole, Thomas, Hindle, Whittacker, Bialystok, & Craik, £630,000)
Hunaniaith and Welsh Language Board: Arolwg o ddefnydd cymdeithasol plant cynradd o’r Gymraeg/Survey of primary children’s social use of Welsh (Roberts & Thomas, £20,000)
2009
Welsh Government: Continued Development of Standardised Measures for the Assessment of Welsh (Gathercole & Thomas, £90,000).
2007
ESRC: Cognitive effects of bilingualism across the lifespan (Gathercole & Thomas: £720,000)
North Wales Research Committee: Does bilingualism delay the onset of dementia? A pilot study comparing bilingual Welsh/English and monolingual English speakers (Clare, Thomas, Whitaker, & Jones, £5,000)
2005
Welsh Assembly Government: Development of Welsh language assessment tools for children (Gathercole & Thomas: £90,000)
North Wales Research Committee: Neuropsychological assessment of bilingual Welsh-English speakers: meeting the needs of Welsh-speaking older people (Thomas, Clare, Woods, & Jones: £5,000)
2003
Welsh Language Board: Trosglwyddo Iaith mewn Teuluoedd Dwyieithog yng Nghymru (Gathercole, Thomas, Deuchar & Williams; £93,000).
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffujava.lang.NullPointerException
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- Wedi ei Dderbyn / Yn y wasgjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2021
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2020
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- CyhoeddwydY Tiwtiadur
Davies, J., Thomas, E., Fitzpatrick, T., Needs, J., Anthony, L., Cobb, T. & Knight, D., 2020
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall › Cyfraniad Arall › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
2019
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2018
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2017
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2016
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2015
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2014
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2013
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
- CyhoeddwydBilingual Welsh–English children's acquisition of vocabulary and reading: implications for bilingual education
Rhys, M. & Thomas, E., 2013, Yn: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 16, 6, t. 633-656
Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid - Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2012
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2011
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
2010
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2009
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2008
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
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2007
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2006
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2005
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2004
- Cyhoeddwydjava.lang.NullPointerException
Gweithgareddau
2022
- Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education (Cyfnodolyn)
14 Meh 2022
Gweithgaredd: Adolygu cyhoeddiadau cymheiriaid (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Addysg, y pandemig a'r Gymraeg
Prestigious O'Donnell Annual Lecture
26 Mai 2022
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Welsh language: Parents asked to record baby talk
Interview given to BBC Wales about new project asking parents to record the way they speak to their babies in Welsh to help others learn the language.
9 Ebr 2022
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd a gwaith maes - Erthygl neu gyfranogiad yn y cyfryngau (Cyfrannwr)
2021
- Preparing for the delivery of the Languages, Literacy and Communication Area of learning and Experience within the new Curriculum for Wales: Challenges and opportunities
Keynote Address
11 Mai 2021
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
2020
- Oracy All-Party Parliamentary Group Inquiry
17 Medi 2020
Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Cyfraniad at waith pwyllgorau a gweithgorau cenedlaethol neu ryngwladol (Cyfrannwr)
2019
- Addressing literacy difficulties in languages with transparent orthographies: issues for Welsh
Keynote presentation
10 Meh 2019 – 14 Meh 2019
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - The long-term outcomes for bilinguals in minority language contexts
Research Seminar at Department of Language Studies, Umea University, Sweden
6 Maw 2019
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Teacher Education for minority language teachers and immersion school teachers in Wales
Teacher Training on Teaching Minority Language Oral Skills
18 Ion 2019
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (Cyfnodolyn)
Editorial Board Member
1 Ion 2019 →
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)
2018
- Cynhadledd y Gymraeg mewn Addysg a Dwyieithrwydd
Cynhadledd undydd i athrawon a gweision sifil
9 Tach 2018
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr) - Multilingual Education in Linguistically Diverse Contexts: The Issues in Wales
Keynote Address
30 Awst 2018 – 1 Medi 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Welsh in Education and Bilingualism Conference
A one-day conference for teachers and civil servants
22 Meh 2018
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr) - Understanding factors influencing bi- and multilingual development in minority language contexts
Keynote Address
8 Meh 2018 – 10 Meh 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr) - Childhood Bilingualism: the Welsh-English context.
Keynote Address
12 Ion 2018
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
2017
- Lansio llyfr Agweddau Ar Ddwyieithrwydd [Book launch]
Lansiad y llyfr newydd Agweddau ar Ddwyieithrwydd i'r cyhoedd, ar stondin Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, gyda chyfweliad gan Ifor ap Glyn gyda' awduron, Enlli Thomas a Peredur Webb-Davies.
Public book launch of Welsh textbook about bilingualism, at the stall of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, featuring an interview by Ifor ap Glyn with the authors, Enlli Thomas and Peredur Webb-Davies.
9 Awst 2017
Gweithgaredd: Cyflwyniad llafar (Siaradwr) - Welsh Government (Sefydliad allanol)
Aelod o Gyngor Partneriaethau'r Gymraeg
1 Gorff 2017 – 1 Gorff 2020
Gweithgaredd: Aelodaeth o gyngor (Cadeirydd) - Psycho- and socio-linguistic factors influencing minority language competence in bi- and multilingual contexts: implications for education
Keynote Address
11 Mai 2017 – 13 Mai 2017
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
2016
- International Conference on Bilingualism in Education, Bangor University
International Conference on Bilingualism in Education
10 Meh 2016 – 12 Meh 2016
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)
2015
- John Benjamins (Cyhoeddwr)
Editorial Booard Member, Studies in Bilingualism, John Benjamins
31 Rhag 2015 – 31 Rhag 2025
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - Applied Psycholinguistics (Cyfnodolyn)
Editorial Board Member
30 Tach 2015 – 31 Rhag 2019
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)
2014
- Applied Psycholinguistics (Cyfnodolyn)
Editorial Board Member
2014 – 2018
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol) - John Benjamins Publishing Company (Cyhoeddwr)
Studies in Bilingualism Book Series Advisory Editorial Board member
2014 →
Cysylltau:
Gweithgaredd: Gweithgarwch golygyddol (Aelod o fwrdd golygyddol)
2011
- Psycholinguistic aspects of the acquisition of Welsh: Challenges to the sustainability of a minority linguistic community.
Keynote Address
28 Maw 2011
Gweithgaredd: Sgwrs wadd (Siaradwr)
Projectau
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Translanguaging and Mediation Resources (CEN 17)
01/11/2021 – 15/08/2022 (Wedi gorffen)
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01/09/2020 – 31/01/2022 (Wedi gorffen)
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Travel grant to Department of Language Studies, Umeå University, Sweden for Enlli Thomas
01/06/2020 – 21/09/2022 (Wedi gorffen)
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01/01/2018 – 01/08/2019 (Wedi gorffen)
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CorCenC: Corpws Cenedlaethol Cymraeg (The Welsh National Corpus)
01/03/2016 – 31/12/2020 (Wedi gorffen)
Cysylltau:
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Use of Welsh in post-16 education - Gwynedd and Môn
01/02/2015 – 14/07/2017 (Wedi gorffen)
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Manteision Addysg Gymraeg a Dwyieithog: Ysgoloriaeth PhD
01/09/2009 – 30/09/2012 (Wedi gorffen)
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Survey of Primary School-Aged Children's Social use of Welsh
01/09/2009 – 31/07/2010 (Wedi gorffen)
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