Robin C Scarcella
Biographic Data
| ID | 733520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin C Scarcella |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin C |
| FAMILY NAME | Scarcella |
| SIGNATURE | SCARCELLA R C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Second language pronunciation: State of the art in instruction
Second language vocabulary learning among adults: State of the art in vocabulary instruction
Integrating the language skills
Developing communicative competence in a second language
How Writers Orient Their Readers in Expository Essays: A Comparative Study of Native and Non-Native English Writers
This article examines how writers orient their readers in expository essays. A total of 110 essays (30 native English and 80 non-native English) were analyzed to explore the orienting skills of native and non-native English speakers. Results indicate that native English writers employ a wide variety of linguistic devices to engage their readers' attention and help their readers identify the participants, objects, and events about which they write…
Research in Second Language Acqusition: Selected Papers of the Los Angeles Second Language Acquisition Research Forum
Input, Negotiation, and Age Differences in Second Language Acquisition1
This paper examines input and negotiation in child and adolescent second language acquisition. Two hypotheses are tested: first that adult native speakers provide more simplified input to younger learners than to older learners; and second. that older learners use more conversational negotiation devices and techniques than younger learners. To test these hypotheses fourteen Spanish speakers oust beginning to acquire English). seven children and s…
Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition
(1) Adults proceed through early stages of syntactic and morphological development faster than children (where time and exposure are held constant). (2) Older children acquire faster than younger children (again, in early stages of morphological and syntactic development where time and exposure are held constant). (3) Acquirers who begin natural exposure to second languages during childhood generally achieve higher second language proficiency tha…
Socio-Drama for Social Interaction
It is often recognized that greater emphasis should be placed on developing communication skills. Socio-drama can be used effectively to attain this goal. First, by participating in several enactments, students produce new sentences based on their own behavior or the spontaneous constructions produced by other students. Second, as in real life communication, socio-drama obliges students to restructure their language use according to the social co…
Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition
(1) Adults proceed through early stages of syntactic and morphological development faster than children (where time and exposure are held constant). (2) Older children acquire faster than younger children (again, in early stages of morphological and syntactic development where time and exposure are held constant). (3) Acquirers who begin natural exposure to second languages during childhood generally achieve higher second language proficiency tha…
Second language vocabulary learning among adults: State of the art in vocabulary instruction
Input, Negotiation, and Age Differences in Second Language Acquisition1
This paper examines input and negotiation in child and adolescent second language acquisition. Two hypotheses are tested: first that adult native speakers provide more simplified input to younger learners than to older learners; and second. that older learners use more conversational negotiation devices and techniques than younger learners. To test these hypotheses fourteen Spanish speakers oust beginning to acquire English). seven children and s…
How Writers Orient Their Readers in Expository Essays: A Comparative Study of Native and Non-Native English Writers
This article examines how writers orient their readers in expository essays. A total of 110 essays (30 native English and 80 non-native English) were analyzed to explore the orienting skills of native and non-native English speakers. Results indicate that native English writers employ a wide variety of linguistic devices to engage their readers' attention and help their readers identify the participants, objects, and events about which they write…
Second language pronunciation: State of the art in instruction
Integrating the language skills
Socio-Drama for Social Interaction
It is often recognized that greater emphasis should be placed on developing communication skills. Socio-drama can be used effectively to attain this goal. First, by participating in several enactments, students produce new sentences based on their own behavior or the spontaneous constructions produced by other students. Second, as in real life communication, socio-drama obliges students to restructure their language use according to the social co…
Socio-Drama for Social Interaction
It is often recognized that greater emphasis should be placed on developing communication skills. Socio-drama can be used effectively to attain this goal. First, by participating in several enactments, students produce new sentences based on their own behavior or the spontaneous constructions produced by other students. Second, as in real life communication, socio-drama obliges students to restructure their language use according to the social co…
Age, Rate and Eventual Attainment in Second Language Acquisition
(1) Adults proceed through early stages of syntactic and morphological development faster than children (where time and exposure are held constant). (2) Older children acquire faster than younger children (again, in early stages of morphological and syntactic development where time and exposure are held constant). (3) Acquirers who begin natural exposure to second languages during childhood generally achieve higher second language proficiency tha…
Input, Negotiation, and Age Differences in Second Language Acquisition1
This paper examines input and negotiation in child and adolescent second language acquisition. Two hypotheses are tested: first that adult native speakers provide more simplified input to younger learners than to older learners; and second. that older learners use more conversational negotiation devices and techniques than younger learners. To test these hypotheses fourteen Spanish speakers oust beginning to acquire English). seven children and s…
Research in Second Language Acqusition: Selected Papers of the Los Angeles Second Language Acquisition Research Forum
How Writers Orient Their Readers in Expository Essays: A Comparative Study of Native and Non-Native English Writers
This article examines how writers orient their readers in expository essays. A total of 110 essays (30 native English and 80 non-native English) were analyzed to explore the orienting skills of native and non-native English speakers. Results indicate that native English writers employ a wide variety of linguistic devices to engage their readers' attention and help their readers identify the participants, objects, and events about which they write…
Developing communicative competence in a second language
Second language pronunciation: State of the art in instruction
Second language vocabulary learning among adults: State of the art in vocabulary instruction
Integrating the language skills
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mathematics education (4 works) · Language acquisition (3 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works)