College: Newnham College

Email: slws2@cam.ac.uk

PhD thesis: Investigating the role of an indigenised variety of English in the acquisitional and sociolinguistic contexts of the Malaysian ecology

About                        

Samantha completed her PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge in 2023. Her research aimed to bridge the fields of Language Acquisition and World Englishes by focusing on the use of Malaysian English varieties in different social contexts.

Prior to her PhD, Samantha completed her BA in English Language and Linguistics at the University of York in 2016 and MPhil in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge in 2017.

Research       

Language Acquisition

Multilingualism

World Englishes                  

Other activities and roles   

2017-2018: Co-organiser of the poster session at the Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

2018-2019: Graduate representative of the Cambridge University Malaysia Society