This monograph presents evidence from an interrelated set of experiments designed to
investigate aspects of sentence processing comparing bilinguals and monolinguals, testing …

Argumentative writing in English as a foreign language (EFL) is an important skill in upper
secondary education in Germany and Switzerland. This article provides insights into …

Successfully developed academic inventions have the potential to spawn new technological
domains, form the basis of thriving business ventures, and improve the well-being of society …

Research on the second writing process is not recent. Both first and second writing
processes have been in the area of argument among scholars. It has been confirmed that …

The acquisition of the grammar-the morphology and syntax-of a second language (L2) lies
at the heart of the study of second language acquisition (SLA) and consequently has …

The present study focuses on the analysis of syntactic complexity (SC) in written narratives
produced by Spanish heritage language speakers, growing up in a multilingual context. In …

Native speakers of English are sensitive to the likelihood that a verb will appear in a specific
subcategorization frame, known as verb bias. Readers rely on verb bias to help them …

Our efforts to study the acquisition of new knowledge, especially in the areas of mathematics
and science, take advantage of a combination of methods. These include experiments …

This study aims to find out the employment of lexical and syntactic complexities in the
undergraduate students' research articles and their correlations to their quality. It employes a …

This dissertation outlines three studies investigating linguistically diverse students'(including
bilingual and monolingual students) language use and self-efficacy in writing. Bilingual …