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D-Index
44
Citations
18074
World Ranking
3984
National Ranking
11

Overview

Peter Robinson is affiliated with Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields with a focus on health, society, and language. The main subfields of study associated with their work include General Health Professions, Philosophy, Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their work predominantly addresses themes in Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity, Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues, as well as Health, Medicine and Society. Additional topics include Second Language Learning and Teaching, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition and Learning, and 3D Printing in Biomedical Research.

Robinson has contributed to scholarly literature through a variety of publication venues. These include:

  • Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
  • Nature Communications
  • ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
  • Literary Imagination

Their recent papers demonstrate engagement with topics in biomedical research and social issues, such as:

  • "Characterization of an engineered live bacterial therapeutic for the treatment of phenylketonuria in a human gut-on-a-chip" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Evaluation of Human Performance Aiding Live Synthetically Engineered Bacteria in a Gut-on-a-Chip" (2022) appearing in ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
  • "The needs of older gay, lesbian and transgender people" (2024) published by Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • "Generational differences in attitudes to gay marriage" (2024) also from Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology)
  • "Across the Park" (2021) featured in Literary Imagination

In collaboration, Robinson frequently works with a group of coauthors who appear repeatedly in their scholarly output. These include Mohammad Javad Ahmadian, Michael Long, Mark Nelson, Heidi G. Coia, and Corey C. Holt.

Their contribution to academic book publishing includes a title with Cambridge University Press:

  • "The Cambridge Handbook of Task-Based Language Teaching" (2021)

Overall, Robinson's research trajectory reflects a diversified interest in both applied biomedical research and social dimensions of health and identity, alongside contributions to language teaching methodologies and literary theory.

Best Publications

  • Task complexity, task difficulty, and task production : Exploring interactions in a componential framework

    Peter Robinson

  • Attention, Memory, and the “Noticing” Hypothesis

    Peter Robinson

  • Cognition and second language instruction

    Peter Robinson

  • Handbook of cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition

    Peter Robinson;Nick C. Ellis

  • Learning Simple and Complex Second Language Rules Under Implicit, Incidental, Rule-Search, and Instructed Conditions

    Peter Robinson

  • Cognitive Complexity and Task Sequencing: Studies in a Componential Framework for Second Language Task Design

    Peter Robinson

  • Attention and Memory during SLA

    Peter Robinson

  • Task Complexity and Second Language Narrative Discourse

    Peter Robinson

  • Cognition and Second Language Instruction: Task complexity, cognitive resources, and syllabus design: a triadic framework for examining task influences on SLA

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  • Individual differences and instructed language learning

    Peter Robinson

  • APTITUDE AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

    Peter Robinson

  • Second language task complexity : researching the cognition hypothesis of language learning and performance

    Peter Robinson

  • GENERALIZABILITY AND AUTOMATICITY OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING UNDER IMPLICIT, INCIDENTAL, ENHANCED, AND INSTRUCTED CONDITIONS

    Peter Robinson

  • Task‐Based Language Learning: A Review of Issues

    Peter Robinson

  • Task complexity, theory of mind, and intentional reasoning: Effects on L2 speech production, interaction, uptake and perceptions of task difficulty

    Peter Robinson

  • Individual Differences and the Fundamental Similarity of Implicit and Explicit Adult Second Language Learning

    Peter Robinson

  • Task complexity, the Cognition Hypothesis and second language learning and performance

    Peter Robinson;Roger Gilabert

  • The cognitive hypothesis, task design, and adult task-based language learning

    Peter Robinson

  • Individual Differences, Cognitive Abilities, Aptitude Complexes, and Learning Conditions in Second Language Acquisition.

    Peter Robinson

  • Aptitude in Second Language Acquisition

    Peter Robinson

  • Consciousness, Rules, and Instructed Second Language Acquisition

    Peter Robinson

  • The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition

    Peter Jake Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison Mackey
Alison Mackey Georgetown University
Susan M. Gass
Susan M. Gass Michigan State University
Nick C. Ellis
Nick C. Ellis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Robert DeKeyser
Robert DeKeyser University of Maryland, College Park

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