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Johanne Paradis

Johanne Paradis

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Psychology

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50
Citations
12144
World Ranking
5384
National Ranking
363

Overview

Johanne Paradis is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the psychology of language development, with a strong emphasis on developmental and educational psychology. The work spans several subfields including linguistics and language, cognitive neuroscience, education, and language and linguistics.

Their main research topics include:

  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Migration, Health and Trauma

Several recent publications by Johanne Paradis illustrate the scope of their work. These include:

  • "Sources of individual differences in the dual language development of heritage bilinguals" (2023), published in the Journal of Child Language
  • "How language environment, age, and cognitive capacity support the bilingual development of Syrian refugee children recently arrived in Canada" (2020), published in Applied Psycholinguistics
  • "Morphosyntactic Development in First Generation Arabic-English Children: The Effect of Cognitive, Age, and Input Factors over Time and across Languages" (2021), published in Languages

Johanne Paradis frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Child Language
  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Languages
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition

The scientist has collaborated regularly with a group of co-authors, including:

  • Ana Santos
  • Mélanie Söderström
  • Miles Lambert
  • David Crystal
  • Elena Tribushinina

Their research contributions span various aspects of bilingualism, child language acquisition, and the educational implications of multilingualism in diverse populations, such as refugee children. The studies often consider cognitive and environmental factors influencing language development, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach that integrates psychological, linguistic, and educational perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Syntactic Acquisition in Bilingual Children: Autonomous or Interdependent?.

    Johanne Paradis;Fred Genesee

  • Language differentiation in early bilingual development

    Fred Genesee;Elena Nicoladis;Johanne Paradis

  • Dual Language Development and Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning

    Fred Genesee;Johanne Paradis;Martha B. Crago

  • Individual differences in child English second language acquisition Comparing child-internal and child-external factors

    Johanne Paradis

  • Subject realization and crosslinguistic interference in the bilingual acquisition of Spanish and English: what is the role of the input?

    Johanne Paradis;Samuel Navarro

  • The interface between bilingual development and specific language impairment

    Johannes Paradis

  • Do bilingual two-year-olds have separate phonological systems?

    Johanne Paradis

  • Lexical acquisition over time in minority first language children learning English as a second language

    Heather Golberg;Johanne Paradis;Martha Crago

  • Assessment of English language learners: Using parent report on first language development

    Johanne Paradis;Kristyn Emmerzael;Tamara Sorenson Duncan

  • French-English bilingual children with SLI: how do they compare with their monolingual peers?

    Johanne Paradis;Martha Crago;Fred Genesee;Mabel Rice

  • Grammatical Morphology in Children Learning English as a Second Language: Implications of Similarities With Specific Language Impairment

    Johanne Paradis

  • Bilingual Children's Acquisition of English Verb Morphology: Effects of Language Exposure, Structure Complexity, and Task Type

    Johanne Paradis

  • Early emergence of structural constraints on code-mixing: evidence from French–English bilingual children

    Johanne Paradis;Elena Nicoladis;Fred Genesee

  • Second Language Acquisition in Childhood

    Johanne Paradis

  • The acquisition of articles in child second language English: fluctuation, transfer or both?

    Tatiana Zdorenko;Johanne Paradis

  • The Influence of Dominance and Sociolinguistic Context on Bilingual Preschoolers' Language Choice

    Johanne Paradis;Elena Nicoladis

  • Bilingual children's long-term outcomes in English as a second language: language environment factors shape individual differences in catching up with monolinguals.

    Johanne Paradis;Ruiting Jia

  • Tense and temporality: a comparison between children learning a second language and children with SLI.

    Johanne Paradis;Martha Crago

  • Bilingual children with specific language impairment: Theoretical and applied issues

    Johanne Paradis

  • Discriminating Children With Language Impairment Among English-Language Learners From Diverse First-Language Backgrounds

    Johanne Paradis;Phyllis Schneider;Tamara Sorenson Duncan

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Genesee
Fred Genesee McGill University
Elena Nicoladis
Elena Nicoladis University of British Columbia
Janet Marquis
Janet Marquis University of Kansas

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