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Professor Debra Myhill FBA

Writing and the teaching of writing, particularly linguistic and metalinguistic development; the composing processes involved in writing; the talk-writing relationship; the teaching of grammar; and creative writing
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023
Sections
Linguistics and Philology , Education
Website
https://education.exeter.ac.uk/staff/profile/index.php?web_id=debra_myhill

Current post

University of Exeter Professor Emerita in Language and Literacy Education

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Children's cognitive development, particularly the development of language and literacy; cross-language studies of reading and dyslexia; reading development in deaf children and language-impaired children; educational neuroscience of reading and dyslexia

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Professor Mark Olssen FBA

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