Dr Brigita Séguis
Senior Research Manager
Brigita completed her DPhil in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology at the University of Oxford where she specialised in multilingualism, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Her areas of expertise/interest at Cambridge Assessment English are the Occupational English Test (OET), impact studies, corpus linguistics and multilingualism. She is also a member of the Cambridge English Listening Skills group.
Prior to joining Cambridge Assessment English, Brigita gave tutorials in sociolinguistics and academic writing at the University of Oxford and University College London. She also worked as Bilingual Health Advocate for the NHS and as a freelance interpreter and translator.
Brigita is fluent in five languages and in her spare time she is trying to further expand her linguistic repertoire. She also enjoys reading, travelling and baking with her children.
Key publications and conference presentations
Séguis, B and McElwee, S (forthcoming) Care to Talk? Assessing clinical communication skills on the Occupational English Test
Séguis, B (2018) Language assessment of health professionals: The issue of communicative competence, paper presented at the ALTE 51st Meeting and Conference, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 13 April 2018.
Zhang, B, Séguis, B, Lim, G (2018) Towards improved clinical communication: An overview of the updated version of the Occupational English Test (OET), paper presented at the 40th Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 4-6 July 2018.
Séguis, B (2016) Post-Soviet multilingualism: Code-switching in the Polish community in Lithuania, in Sloboda, M, Laihonen, P and Zabrodskaja, A (Eds) Sociolinguistic Transition in Former Eastern Bloc Countries: Two Decades after the Regime Change, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, 293-316.
Séguis, B (2014) Distinguishing between Code-switching and Borrowing: Evaluating the criteria on the basis of Polish-Russian data, paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 20, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 15-18 June 2014.
Séguis, B (2012) The functions of Russian in the emerging Polish-Russian mixed code in Lithuania, paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, 21-24 August 2012.