About the lecture
In this presentation I will discuss research findings with typically developing and at-risk L2 learners. This research aims to address fundamental questions concerning normal developmental trajectories of language and literacy skills, the role of typological differences, when is language proficiency important, and how we should go about figuring out who are the individuals who, in addition to being L2 learners, may also have a learning disability such as dyslexia or language impairment.
About Esther Geva
Esther Geva is professor at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, and presently a guest professor at Department of Special Needs Education. Her research interests include the development of literacy skills in children learning to read in a second language (L2); the relations between oral and written language skills in L2 learners; transfer issues in L2 literacy development; cognitive and linguistic processes and predictors of normal and problematic literacy development in L2 children, and selected topics in cross-cultural psychology pertaining to children's well-being such as parental attribution and concepts of wellness.