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.[1]

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

References

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

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