Browsing by Author "Uccelli, Paola"
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Creciendo juntos: Cultural Pathways in Mexican-Origin Childrens Spanish and English Oral Language Development in Early Childhood
Aguilar, Gladys María (2023-08-17)This dissertation helps elucidate the cultural pathways linked to Latinx children’s early Spanish and English oral language development and contributes to the field’s understanding of within-group variability in bilingual ... -
Developing Novel Approaches to Analyzing Vocabulary, Syntax, and Discourse Structure in Fifth-to-Eighth Grade Argumentative Writing
Deng, Ziyun (2021-05-14)This dissertation consists of three studies on adolescents’ argumentative writing. Standards, assessments, and most research in the field of adolescent writing development rely primarily on holistic rubrics to analyze ... -
Home language at school: Crosslinguistic sentence integration supports second language comprehension of oral and written school-based discourse
Leon Guerrero, Sibylla (2021-05-12)Learners today arrive at school with increasingly varied home language repertoires. At the same time, the educational institutions they rely upon for success have historically been constructed around monolingual norms and ... -
Identifying Predictors of Academic Writing in English as a Foreign Language: A Study on Early Adolescents in Korea and China
Jo, Claire W. (2017-10-27)Attaining English proficiency in two East Asian countries, Korea and China, is often described as a “national obsession.” Although adolescent English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners are rapidly increasing in number, ... -
Navigating Across Communicative Contexts: Exploring Writing Proficiency in Adolescent and Adult EFL Learners
Qin, Wenjuan (2018-04-18)This thesis examines whether EFL learners deploy their language skills differently and successfully when writing across communicative contexts. Study 1 proposes an innovative construct register flexibility, which refers ...