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Citations
8236
World Ranking
6153
National Ranking
2944

Overview

Elaine Tarone is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, with a strong focus on Linguistics and Language as well as Language and Linguistics. Subfields of study also include Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their work involve Multilingual Education and Policy, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Phonetics and Phonology Research, Second Language Learning and Teaching, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Reading and Literacy Development, and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies.

Elaine Tarone's recent academic contributions include the following papers:

  • "Voice and Mirroring in SLA: Top-Down Pedagogy for L2 Pronunciation Instruction" (2020), published in RELC Journal
  • "Adult L2 writers with emergent literacy: Writing development and pedagogical considerations" (2021), published in Journal of Second Language Writing
  • "Channeling Voices to Improve L2 English Intelligibility" (2022), published in Modern Language Journal
  • "A Research Agenda for Second Language Acquisition of Pre-Literate and Low-Literate Adult and Adolescent Learners" (2023), published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Introduction" (2022), published in Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Their frequent co-authors include Darren K. LaScotte, Colleen Meyers, Nicole Pettitt, Lisa Gonzalves, and Theresa Wall. Collaborations with these researchers appear multiple times, indicating active engagement within their academic network.

Elaine Tarone's work appears in a variety of academic journals, with repeated publications in the Modern Language Journal. Other venues include RELC Journal, Journal of Second Language Writing, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics.

Best Publications

  • A Transdisciplinary Framework for SLA in a Multilingual World

    D. Atkinson;H. Byrnes;M. Doran;P. Duff

  • Some Thoughts on the Notion of Communication Strategy

    Elaine Tarone

  • COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES, FOREIGNER TALK, AND REPAIR IN INTERLANGUAGE 1

    Elaine Tarone

  • On the Variability of Interlanguage Systems

    Elaine Tarone

  • Variation in interlanguage

    Elaine Tarone

  • Focus on the language learner

    Elaine Tarone

  • A Sociolinguistic Perspective on Second Language Use in Immersion Classrooms

    Elaine Tarone;Merrill Swain

  • Is it fun? language play in a fifth-grade Spanish immersion classroom

    Maggie A. Broner;Elaine E. Tarone

  • The Role of Literacy Level in Second Language Acquisition: Doesn't Who We Study Determine What We Know?

    Martha Bigelow;Elaine Tarone

  • VARIABILITY IN INTERLANGUAGE USE: A STUDY OF STYLE‐SHIFTING IN MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX

    Elaine E. Tarone

  • INTERLANGUAGE AS CHAMELEON1

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  • Sociolinguistic Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Research—1997–2007

    Elaine Tarone

  • ON THE USE OF THE PASSIVE IN TWO ASTROPHYSICS JOURNAL PAPERS

    Elaine Tarone;Sharon Dwyer;Susan Gillette;Vincent Icke

  • Task-Related Variation in Interlanguage: The Case of Articles†

    Elaine Tarone;Betsy Parrish

  • Impact of literacy on oral language processing: implications for second language acquisition research

    Elaine Tarone;Martha Bigelow

  • Literacy and the Processing of Oral Recasts in SLA.

    Martha Bigelow;Robert Delmas;Kit Hansen;Elaine Tarone

  • SYSTEMATICITY AND ATTENTION IN INTERLANGUAGE1

    Elaine E. Tarone

  • On the use of the passive and active voice in astrophysics journal papers: With extensions to other languages and other fields

    Elaine Tarone;Sharon Dwyer;Susan Gillette;Vincent Icke

  • Research methodology in second-language acquisition

    Elaine E. Tarone;Susan M. Gass;Andrew D. Cohen

  • Literacy and Second Language Oracy

    Elaine Tarone;Martha Bigelow;Kit Hansen

  • Impact of Classroom Dynamics on the Effectiveness of Recasts in Second Language Acquisition.

    Frank A. Morris;Elaine E. Tarone

  • Social and Cognitive Factors in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 1999 Second Language Research Forum.

    Bonnie Swierzbin;Frank Morris;Michael E. Anderson;Carol A. Klee

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. Cohen
Andrew D. Cohen University of Minnesota
Merrill Swain
Merrill Swain University of Toronto
Susan M. Gass
Susan M. Gass Michigan State University
Patricia A. Duff
Patricia A. Duff University of British Columbia
Bonny Norton
Bonny Norton University of British Columbia
Lourdes Ortega
Lourdes Ortega Georgetown University
James P. Lantolf
James P. Lantolf Pennsylvania State University
Diane Larsen-Freeman
Diane Larsen-Freeman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nick C. Ellis
Nick C. Ellis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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