Susana A Eisenchla
Biographic Data
| ID | 976538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susana A Eisenchla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susana A |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisenchla |
| SIGNATURE | EISENCHLA S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7700-8444 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The influence of transition prompt wording on response informativeness and rapidity of disclosure in child forensic interviews
Investigators hope to elicit disclosure or other case-related (informative) responses quickly when transitioning to the substantive phase of forensic interviews. Interviewing protocols suggest directly asking the child about the purpose of the interview to obtain early disclosure. However, interviewers sometimes rephrase scripted transition prompts, which has unknown consequences. The present study examined the effects that the first transition p…
Sixty years of second language aptitude research: A systematic quantitative literature review
Second language (L2) aptitude has been broadly defined as the rate and ease of initially acquiring a second language. Historically, L2 aptitude has been understood as a stable trait that predetermined L2 achievement, regardless of individual learners’ efforts to acquire an L2. This traditional view of L2 aptitude as fixed and stable has led to it being a relatively neglected area of research within second language acquisition (SLA) studies. The l…
Reaching out to migrant and refugee communities to support home language maintenance
Migrant and refugee parents considering raising their children in their non-mainstream home language often fear that this decision may impact negatively on their children’s English language ability and thus affect their academic prospects. The lack of institutional support for home languages in the Australian school system, and the well-intentioned but misguided advice parents may receive to switch to the mainstream language in family interaction…
What’s in a face? The impact of nonlinguistic ‘ethnic’ facial features on accent perception
Sociolinguistic research on language attitudes has revealed that non-standard accented speakers are usually perceived more negatively than members of the dominant speech community. Few studies, however, have examined whether a speaker’s ethnicity, evidenced by nonlinguistic factors such as appearance, may play a role in listeners’ perception of accent. This project is based on studies by Rubin (1992. “Nonlanguage factors affecting undergraduates’…
Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals
Factors affecting the quality of transnational higher education in China: A qualitative content analysis on Chinese host universities' self-appraisal reports
In response to the increasing literature on transnational higher education in host countries, this paper aims to identify prominent factors affecting the quality of transnational higher education in China, as perceived and reported by Chinese host universities. A qualitative data analysis was conducted on 122 self-appraisal reports on transnational higher education programmes submitted to China’s Ministry of Education in 2017 by 112 Chinese host …
Multilingualism and literacy: Practices and effects
Linguistic and cultural diversity is a feature of most, if not all, modern societies, whether it results from historical processes of state formation, from the aggregation of colonial possessions a
Play to learn: Self-directed home language literacy acquisition through online games
Home language literacy education in Australia has been pursued predominantly through Community Language Schools. At present, some 1000 of these, attended by over 100,000 school-age children, cater for 69 of the over 300 languages spoken in Australia. Despite good intentions, these schools face a number of challenges. For instance, children may lack motivation and perceive after-hours schooling as an unnecessary burden. Trained teachers and suitab…
Multilingualism and assimilationism in Australia's literacy-related educational policies
Australia is a country of high linguistic diversity, with more than 300 languages spoken. Today, 19% of the population aged over 5 years speak a language other than English at home. Against this background, we examine government policies and prominent initiatives developed at national level in the past 30 years to address the challenge of offering ‘Literacy for all’, in particular focusing on minority language speaking children. Across the examin…
Multilingualism and literacy: Attitudes and policies
In this special issue we shine light on the relationship between multilingualism and literacy and on dominant forces that shape it. Here we present a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented originally at the Multilingualism and Literacy workshop held at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva, 21–27 July 2013. That workshop explored the impact of multilingualism on the literacy development of both children and adults, seeking t…
One-parent-one-language (Opol) families: Is the majority language-speaking parent instrumental in the minority language development
The aim of this study is to examine the strategies majority language-speaking parents use to support the development of the minority language in families who follow the pattern of exposure known as one-parent-one-language (OPOL). In this particular pattern of raising a child bilingually, each parent speaks only their own native language to their children. Previous studies concerned with language development in children raised under the OPOL patte…
The Importance of Literacy in the Home Language: The View From Australia
While advantages of literacy in the home language have been widely documented, the Australian education system has not been proactive in providing institutional support for its development. This paper investigates the impact of (il)literacy in the home language on the academic, affective, and social development of bilingual/multilingual children and proposes principles that home-language-literacy programs should meet to be effective. It discusses…
Gender Roles and Expectations: Any Changes Online
One consequence of the advent of cyber communication is that increasing numbers of people go online to ask for, obtain, and presumably act upon advice dispensed by unknown peers. Just as advice seekers may not have access to information about the identities, ideologies, and other personal characteristics of advice givers, advice givers are equally ignorant about their interlocutors except for the bits of demographic information that the latter ma…
Coming Clean” on Duty of Care: Australian Print Media’s Representation of Male Versus Female Sex Offenders in Institutional Contexts
The functions of self‐initiated self‐repair in the second language Chinese classroom 1
Self‐repair analysis has often been used to gauge a learner's proficiency level, language acquisition or monitoring ability. This study questions these presumed links by examining the self‐initiated self‐repair practices of second language learners of Mandarin Chinese drawing from both classroom interaction data and stimulated recall interviews. While this link may not be as strong as previously suggested, self‐repair behaviour can reveal other i…
Gendered discursive practices on-line
On-line interactions as a resource to raise pragmatic awareness
Conceptualizing ‘Communication’ in Second Language Acquisition
Overviewing how the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) conceptualizes ‘communication’ is a complex task. First, researchers differ in their interpretations of the nature of the object of inquiry and the goals of their research, based on different philosophical assumptions about the nature of language and the processes involved in language learning. Second, the concept ‘communication’ is generally taken as widely understood and is seldom d…
Developing intercultural communication skills through intergroup interaction
The call to internationalise the curriculum has become firmly ensconced in Australian educational discourse and university mission statements. Yet, scholars in this area agree that there are few concrete examples of how educators actually set about internationalising the curriculum in a tangible and easily replicable way. This paper adopts a definition of internationalisation of the curriculum which takes into account the experiential aspects of …
Clitics in Child Spanish
This paper investigates the knowledge young children have about clitic pronouns. In particular, it examines whether children ever make mistakes that suggest discontinuity between child and adult Spanish. An elicited imitation task and spontaneous data are used to study children's responses to a number of constructions involving clitics. Results indicate that, from the earliest testable age, children have the grammatical competence for clitic plac…
Teaching intercultural communication in the university setting: An Australian perspective
Part of the tasks of internationalizing the university curriculum involves developing into courses and academic programs generally, activities and assessment practices that provide opportunities for linguistic and cultural input through interaction between local and international students. In this paper, we discuss the challenges and pitfalls of internationalizing the curriculum through the description of an innovative course that we developed to…
Multilingualism and assimilationism in Australia's literacy-related educational policies
Australia is a country of high linguistic diversity, with more than 300 languages spoken. Today, 19% of the population aged over 5 years speak a language other than English at home. Against this background, we examine government policies and prominent initiatives developed at national level in the past 30 years to address the challenge of offering ‘Literacy for all’, in particular focusing on minority language speaking children. Across the examin…
Coming Clean” on Duty of Care: Australian Print Media’s Representation of Male Versus Female Sex Offenders in Institutional Contexts
Factors affecting the quality of transnational higher education in China: A qualitative content analysis on Chinese host universities' self-appraisal reports
In response to the increasing literature on transnational higher education in host countries, this paper aims to identify prominent factors affecting the quality of transnational higher education in China, as perceived and reported by Chinese host universities. A qualitative data analysis was conducted on 122 self-appraisal reports on transnational higher education programmes submitted to China’s Ministry of Education in 2017 by 112 Chinese host …
The Importance of Literacy in the Home Language: The View From Australia
While advantages of literacy in the home language have been widely documented, the Australian education system has not been proactive in providing institutional support for its development. This paper investigates the impact of (il)literacy in the home language on the academic, affective, and social development of bilingual/multilingual children and proposes principles that home-language-literacy programs should meet to be effective. It discusses…
On-line interactions as a resource to raise pragmatic awareness
Developing intercultural communication skills through intergroup interaction
The call to internationalise the curriculum has become firmly ensconced in Australian educational discourse and university mission statements. Yet, scholars in this area agree that there are few concrete examples of how educators actually set about internationalising the curriculum in a tangible and easily replicable way. This paper adopts a definition of internationalisation of the curriculum which takes into account the experiential aspects of …
Multilingualism and literacy: Attitudes and policies
In this special issue we shine light on the relationship between multilingualism and literacy and on dominant forces that shape it. Here we present a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented originally at the Multilingualism and Literacy workshop held at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva, 21–27 July 2013. That workshop explored the impact of multilingualism on the literacy development of both children and adults, seeking t…
Gendered discursive practices on-line
Gender Roles and Expectations: Any Changes Online
One consequence of the advent of cyber communication is that increasing numbers of people go online to ask for, obtain, and presumably act upon advice dispensed by unknown peers. Just as advice seekers may not have access to information about the identities, ideologies, and other personal characteristics of advice givers, advice givers are equally ignorant about their interlocutors except for the bits of demographic information that the latter ma…
Conceptualizing ‘Communication’ in Second Language Acquisition
Overviewing how the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) conceptualizes ‘communication’ is a complex task. First, researchers differ in their interpretations of the nature of the object of inquiry and the goals of their research, based on different philosophical assumptions about the nature of language and the processes involved in language learning. Second, the concept ‘communication’ is generally taken as widely understood and is seldom d…
What’s in a face? The impact of nonlinguistic ‘ethnic’ facial features on accent perception
Sociolinguistic research on language attitudes has revealed that non-standard accented speakers are usually perceived more negatively than members of the dominant speech community. Few studies, however, have examined whether a speaker’s ethnicity, evidenced by nonlinguistic factors such as appearance, may play a role in listeners’ perception of accent. This project is based on studies by Rubin (1992. “Nonlanguage factors affecting undergraduates’…
Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals
The functions of self‐initiated self‐repair in the second language Chinese classroom 1
Self‐repair analysis has often been used to gauge a learner's proficiency level, language acquisition or monitoring ability. This study questions these presumed links by examining the self‐initiated self‐repair practices of second language learners of Mandarin Chinese drawing from both classroom interaction data and stimulated recall interviews. While this link may not be as strong as previously suggested, self‐repair behaviour can reveal other i…
Teaching intercultural communication in the university setting: An Australian perspective
Part of the tasks of internationalizing the university curriculum involves developing into courses and academic programs generally, activities and assessment practices that provide opportunities for linguistic and cultural input through interaction between local and international students. In this paper, we discuss the challenges and pitfalls of internationalizing the curriculum through the description of an innovative course that we developed to…
Clitics in Child Spanish
This paper investigates the knowledge young children have about clitic pronouns. In particular, it examines whether children ever make mistakes that suggest discontinuity between child and adult Spanish. An elicited imitation task and spontaneous data are used to study children's responses to a number of constructions involving clitics. Results indicate that, from the earliest testable age, children have the grammatical competence for clitic plac…
Teaching intercultural communication in the university setting: An Australian perspective
Part of the tasks of internationalizing the university curriculum involves developing into courses and academic programs generally, activities and assessment practices that provide opportunities for linguistic and cultural input through interaction between local and international students. In this paper, we discuss the challenges and pitfalls of internationalizing the curriculum through the description of an innovative course that we developed to…
Developing intercultural communication skills through intergroup interaction
The call to internationalise the curriculum has become firmly ensconced in Australian educational discourse and university mission statements. Yet, scholars in this area agree that there are few concrete examples of how educators actually set about internationalising the curriculum in a tangible and easily replicable way. This paper adopts a definition of internationalisation of the curriculum which takes into account the experiential aspects of …
Conceptualizing ‘Communication’ in Second Language Acquisition
Overviewing how the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) conceptualizes ‘communication’ is a complex task. First, researchers differ in their interpretations of the nature of the object of inquiry and the goals of their research, based on different philosophical assumptions about the nature of language and the processes involved in language learning. Second, the concept ‘communication’ is generally taken as widely understood and is seldom d…
On-line interactions as a resource to raise pragmatic awareness
Coming Clean” on Duty of Care: Australian Print Media’s Representation of Male Versus Female Sex Offenders in Institutional Contexts
The functions of self‐initiated self‐repair in the second language Chinese classroom 1
Self‐repair analysis has often been used to gauge a learner's proficiency level, language acquisition or monitoring ability. This study questions these presumed links by examining the self‐initiated self‐repair practices of second language learners of Mandarin Chinese drawing from both classroom interaction data and stimulated recall interviews. While this link may not be as strong as previously suggested, self‐repair behaviour can reveal other i…
Gendered discursive practices on-line
The Importance of Literacy in the Home Language: The View From Australia
While advantages of literacy in the home language have been widely documented, the Australian education system has not been proactive in providing institutional support for its development. This paper investigates the impact of (il)literacy in the home language on the academic, affective, and social development of bilingual/multilingual children and proposes principles that home-language-literacy programs should meet to be effective. It discusses…
Gender Roles and Expectations: Any Changes Online
One consequence of the advent of cyber communication is that increasing numbers of people go online to ask for, obtain, and presumably act upon advice dispensed by unknown peers. Just as advice seekers may not have access to information about the identities, ideologies, and other personal characteristics of advice givers, advice givers are equally ignorant about their interlocutors except for the bits of demographic information that the latter ma…
One-parent-one-language (Opol) families: Is the majority language-speaking parent instrumental in the minority language development
The aim of this study is to examine the strategies majority language-speaking parents use to support the development of the minority language in families who follow the pattern of exposure known as one-parent-one-language (OPOL). In this particular pattern of raising a child bilingually, each parent speaks only their own native language to their children. Previous studies concerned with language development in children raised under the OPOL patte…
Multilingualism and assimilationism in Australia's literacy-related educational policies
Australia is a country of high linguistic diversity, with more than 300 languages spoken. Today, 19% of the population aged over 5 years speak a language other than English at home. Against this background, we examine government policies and prominent initiatives developed at national level in the past 30 years to address the challenge of offering ‘Literacy for all’, in particular focusing on minority language speaking children. Across the examin…
Multilingualism and literacy: Attitudes and policies
In this special issue we shine light on the relationship between multilingualism and literacy and on dominant forces that shape it. Here we present a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented originally at the Multilingualism and Literacy workshop held at the 19th International Congress of Linguists in Geneva, 21–27 July 2013. That workshop explored the impact of multilingualism on the literacy development of both children and adults, seeking t…
Multilingualism and literacy: Practices and effects
Linguistic and cultural diversity is a feature of most, if not all, modern societies, whether it results from historical processes of state formation, from the aggregation of colonial possessions a
Play to learn: Self-directed home language literacy acquisition through online games
Home language literacy education in Australia has been pursued predominantly through Community Language Schools. At present, some 1000 of these, attended by over 100,000 school-age children, cater for 69 of the over 300 languages spoken in Australia. Despite good intentions, these schools face a number of challenges. For instance, children may lack motivation and perceive after-hours schooling as an unnecessary burden. Trained teachers and suitab…
Reaching out to migrant and refugee communities to support home language maintenance
Migrant and refugee parents considering raising their children in their non-mainstream home language often fear that this decision may impact negatively on their children’s English language ability and thus affect their academic prospects. The lack of institutional support for home languages in the Australian school system, and the well-intentioned but misguided advice parents may receive to switch to the mainstream language in family interaction…
What’s in a face? The impact of nonlinguistic ‘ethnic’ facial features on accent perception
Sociolinguistic research on language attitudes has revealed that non-standard accented speakers are usually perceived more negatively than members of the dominant speech community. Few studies, however, have examined whether a speaker’s ethnicity, evidenced by nonlinguistic factors such as appearance, may play a role in listeners’ perception of accent. This project is based on studies by Rubin (1992. “Nonlanguage factors affecting undergraduates’…
Home and away – Implications of short-term sojourning of young Australian bilinguals
Factors affecting the quality of transnational higher education in China: A qualitative content analysis on Chinese host universities' self-appraisal reports
In response to the increasing literature on transnational higher education in host countries, this paper aims to identify prominent factors affecting the quality of transnational higher education in China, as perceived and reported by Chinese host universities. A qualitative data analysis was conducted on 122 self-appraisal reports on transnational higher education programmes submitted to China’s Ministry of Education in 2017 by 112 Chinese host …
Sixty years of second language aptitude research: A systematic quantitative literature review
Second language (L2) aptitude has been broadly defined as the rate and ease of initially acquiring a second language. Historically, L2 aptitude has been understood as a stable trait that predetermined L2 achievement, regardless of individual learners’ efforts to acquire an L2. This traditional view of L2 aptitude as fixed and stable has led to it being a relatively neglected area of research within second language acquisition (SLA) studies. The l…
The influence of transition prompt wording on response informativeness and rapidity of disclosure in child forensic interviews
Investigators hope to elicit disclosure or other case-related (informative) responses quickly when transitioning to the substantive phase of forensic interviews. Interviewing protocols suggest directly asking the child about the purpose of the interview to obtain early disclosure. However, interviewers sometimes rephrase scripted transition prompts, which has unknown consequences. The present study examined the effects that the first transition p…
Psychology (16 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works)