I grew up in Argentina, where I lived most of my life until I completed my undergraduate studies. I come from an Applied Linguistics and teaching background. My Bachelor's is in English Language Teaching and Linguistics, and I have also completed the CELTA (University of Cambridge ESOL Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) - PASS A. I have taught English and Spanish in secondary and tertiary institutions around Argentina, the USA and Australia. In 2016-2017 I was awarded a highly competitive Fulbright scholarship to continue my professional development in the United States.

In 2021 I successfully completed a Higher Degree by Research Preliminary Course at The University of Western Australia. My research project focused on Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Australian Aboriginal English.

​I am a funded international PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Western Australia. My research explores how First Nations teens use language to create, contest, and maintain bonds in the boarding school. I am interested in how individuals form social styles and social identities through language.

EDUCATION

PhD Candidate in Linguistics at the University of Western Australia.

My research explores how First Nations teens use language to create, contest, and maintain bonds in the boarding school. I am interested in how individuals form social styles and social identities through language.

Supervised by Dr Celeste Rodríguez Louro, Dr Luisa Miceli and Professor Emma Moore [external - University of Sheffield]

Higher Degree by Research Preliminary Course in Linguistics at The University of Western Australia. GPA: 7 (High Distinction).

My research project focused on Discourse-pragmatic variation and change in Australian Aboriginal English.

Cambridge Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) at Curtin University, Western Australia.

BA in Higher Education Teaching in English awarded by ISP ‘Dr. Joaquín V. González,’ Buenos Aires, Agentina. GPA: 9.20/10.

Summer Course in English Phonetics at University College London, London, England.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2022 New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50 (NWAV50) Student Travel Award. Stanford University.

2022 UWA Grand Challenges – Making a Difference Grant. Together with colleagues, PhD candidates Madeleine Clews and Connor Brown, we were awarded this grant to fund a project titled 'Language diversity and inclusion: A classroom toolkit for teachers'

2021-2025 Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship, The University of Western Australia.

2021-2025 University Postgraduate Award, UWA International Fee Scholarship, The University of Western Australia.

2018 University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarship - I was awarded this partial scholarship to pursue a Masters of Cross-cultural and Applied Linguistics but had to decline due to personal reasons.  

2016-2017 Fulbright Scholarship

Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at Pacific University, Oregon, funded by the US Department of Education and the Argentinian Ministry of Education. (Valued at $37,359.00 USD)

2015    Merit Award for Best General Average – Class of 2014 at ISP ‘Dr. Joaquín V. Gonzalez’ for achieving the highest general average (GPA) of the class of 2014-2015. 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Research Experience

Sep-Dec 2024 Research Assistant to Dr Celeste Rodríguez Louro (UWA) in the Google project ‘Aboriginal English Voices’. Duties: draft Aboriginal English transcription convention documents for transcribers.

Dec 2023-Jan 2024 Research Assistant to Dr Celeste Rodríguez Louro (UWA) in the Google project ‘Aboriginal English Voices’. Duties: data collection of youtube videos in Aboriginal English.

May-July 2022 Research Assistant to Dr Celeste Rodríguez Louro (UWA) in her Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship project 'Aboriginal English in the Global City: Minorities and language change' in early 2022. Duties: data collection among First Nations youth.

Dec 2020-Feb 2021 Research Assistant to Dr Maïa Ponsonnet. Duties: coding linguistic input of participants' video recordings and editing of the metadata for a database on emotion metaphors in Australian languages.

I have also engaged in research projects in the capacity of Undergraduate intern Student Assistant in Phonetics, Phonology and Laboratory Practice at ISP “Dr Joaquín V. González” under the supervision of Francisco Zabala and Dr Marina N. Cantarutti in the period 2011-2014. I participated in three research projects, which were later presented at conferences (see references listed below).

Fraiese, Lucía; Smith, Cinthia; Zabala, Francisco; Álvarez, Alfredo (August, 31^st and Septiembre, 1^st, 2012). The River Plate Spanish Influence in the Acquisition of Yes-No Questions in English. Presented at the 2^nd Phonetics and Didactics International Conference at San Martín National University, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fraiese, Lucía; Zabala, Francisco (October, 2th, 2011). Two or chew? Spanish Interference in our Learners Pronunciation of English. Presented at EDAPI Conference 2011 at ISP ‘Dr. Joaquín V. González,’ Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Fraiese, Lucía; Zabala, Francisco; Alvarez, Alfredo (September, 19^th and 20^th, 2011). Allophonic variants of the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate in River Plate Spanish. Presented at the 2^nd Phonetics and Phonology International Conference at Facultad de Lenguas, UNC, Córdoba, Argentina.

Teaching experience

I have worked as a tutor, teacher assistant and marking assistant for various institutions in Argentina, Australia and the USA. Some of these positions include:

Invited guest lecture on Language Attitudes and Communication for Introduction to Engineering (GENG1010) in Semester 2 2024.

Marking assistant for How Language Shapes Society (LING2008) in Semester 2 2024.

Tutor for Language and Communication (LING1001) for Semester 1 2024.

English Language and Bridging Course teacher at the Centre for English Language Teaching at The University of Western Australia, from August to December 2023.

Spanish language teacher at the Multicultural Language Centre, Subiaco, WA in 2021-2022.

Marking Assistant for LING2008 and SPAN 1401 in 2021, and for LING2003 in 2020 at The University of Western Australia.

English teacher to international students at Kaplan International Languages and Phoenix Academy, Perth, WA. (2019-2020)

Phonology lecturer at ENS Lenguas Vivas ‘Sofía Broquen de Spangenberg’ in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2018.

Phonetics tutor and Teaching Assistant at ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González” in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2017 to 2018.

Spanish Language Teaching Assistant at Pacific University, Oregon, USA, from 2016 to 2017.

English teacher for IB Diploma, AS Levels and IGCSE exams at Belgrano Day School and St. Catherine’s Moorlands School in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 2013-2018.

Other roles and responsibilities 

December 2024-ongoing UWA Linguistics and Language Lab Seminar Series Admin Assistant.

May 2023-ongoing Mental Health First Aider.

Jun 2022-ongoing Social Sciences HDR Representative at the Social Sciences Research Committee.

Jun 2022-ongoing Social Sciences HDR Representative at the Board of Graduate Research.

Mar 2021-Dec 2023 Social Media Assistant for the Australian Linguistic Society.

Jun – Dec 2020 – Administrative Assistant to the Organising Committee of the 2020 Australian Linguistic Society Conference.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Fraiese, Lucía; Collard, Glenys, Rodriguez Louro, Celeste; Walker, James; Gardner, Matt Hunt. “Freakin swimming and everythink”: Variable (ING) in youth Aboriginal English. Methods in Dialectology XVIII, LaTrobe University, 1-5 July 2024.

Fraiese, Lucía (INVITED) “‘Because they proper black, they go “unna, true!”’ Snapshots of a sociolinguistic ethnography at a First Nations boarding school”, Sociolinguistic Symposium 25, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 24-27 June 2024.

Rodríguez Louro, Celeste, Gardner, Matt H., Collard, Glenys, Fraiese, Lucía. The calm in be like’s storm: Traditional frameworks alive in youth Aboriginal English, Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2023, The University of Sydney, 29-31 November 2023.

Fraiese, Lucía. Outta Country: The Boarders’ Corpus of Australian Aboriginal English. Workshop of Language Corpora in Australia, The Australian National University (online), 3 July 2023.

Fraiese, Lucia; Rodríguez Louro, Celeste and Collard, Glenys. Outta country: Indigenous youth identities in an Australian boarding school, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50, Stanford University, USA, 13-15 October 2022.

Rodríguez Louro, Celeste and Lucía Fraiese (2023). South to North: Diversity as an academic asset. Sender Dovchin, Toni Dobinson, Maggie McAlinden and Qian Gong (Eds.), Linguistic diversity and discrimination: Autoethnographies from Women in Academia. London: Routledge. [INVITED] 

Fraiese, Lucía (2020) ‘La percepción de la /s/ aspirada en posición implosiva de estudiantes de español como lengua extranjera en Pacific University, Oregon, EE.UU’ in A. Cáldiz y V. Rafaelli (Coords.. Jornadas Internacionales de Fonética y Fonología Jornadas Nacionales de Fonética y Discurso (51:20172017:Ensenada: Ensenada). Exploraciones fonolingüísticas. La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Available  at:  http://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/libros/pm.4481/pm.4481.pdf

Zabala, Francisco; Fraiese, Lucía; Álvarez, Alfredo (2016) ‘Variantes de la consonante africada palato-alveolar sorda en español rioplantese,’ in IDEAS 2da Época, Año 2(2), Revista de la Escuela de Lenguas Modernas, Universidad del Salvador – CABA: Ediciones Universidad del Salvador EUS.ISSN 2469-1178

PRESS/MEDIA

Interview at RTR FM radio on teen language and indetity as part of the Language Lab segment, 3 October 2024. Link to clip: https://rtrfm.com.au/story/language-lab-with-lucia-fraiese-teen-language/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFzCBlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHaI-bJKQ9bHbWvoIJbNr23vNqxppmcAGuDOvn5H30rAt6Cz7qdYIQCmNRw_aem_5h3gkY1swTQKTSQ8CevlaA

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

• Sociolinguistics
• Ethnography
• Style
• Social meaning
• Language and ideology
• Discourse-pragmatics
• Phonetics and Phonology
• Applied Linguistics
• Linguistic discrimination

LANGUAGES

• Spanish (First Language)
• English (Proficient)
• Italian (Heritage language)
• French (Beginner)