Alexandra Gottardo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexandra Gottardo is involved.
2018 Decision-making processes in direct and inverse translation through retrospective protocols Translation, Cognition & Behavior 1:1, pp. 98–118 | Article
Metacognitive aspects of decision-making processes were investigated in eight professional translators who translated related and unrelated texts from L2 English into L1 Portuguese and also from L1 into L2. Retrospective protocols were recorded after each translation task. Verbal utterances were… read more
2018 Chapter 4. How do phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and vocabulary knowledge relate to word reading within and between English and Chinese? Writing Systems, Reading Processes, and Cross-Linguistic Influences: Reflections from the Chinese, Japanese and Korean Languages, Pae, Hye K. (ed.), pp. 73–98 | Chapter
We discuss the cross-language relationships of phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and vocabulary in the context of English and Chinese and also how these three constructs are related to word reading within and between the two languages. We focused on a series of studies that have… read more
2017 A comparison of phonological awareness and morphological awareness in reading Chinese across two linguistic contexts Developmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven, Segers, Eliane and Paul van den Broek (eds.), pp. 219–236 | Chapter
This longitudinal study tested whether contributions of phonological awareness and morphological awareness to Chinese vocabulary and character reading measured one year later were similar for monolingual Chinese-speaking children in China and Chinese-English bilingual children in Canada.… read more
2016 Reading comprehension: The role of acculturation, language dominance, and socioeconomic status in cross-linguistic relations The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues, Klassen, Rachel, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino (eds.), pp. 613–639 | Article
The role of first language (L1) skills in second language (L2) achievement is often investigated to assist learners in acquiring their L2. There are several factors that may influence potential relations among Spanish and English measures (e.g., age of L2 acquisition, social status, among others). read more
2016 Bidirectional cross-linguistic relations of first and second language skills in reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking English learners Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts, Zaretsky, Elena and Mila Schwartz (eds.), pp. 65–92 | Article
This study examines the bidirectional, cross-linguistic associations between language and word-level reading skills and reading comprehension for 51 students in grades 4 to 6 who speak Spanish as first language (L1) and English as second language (L2). Within-language predictors of reading… read more
2014 Bidirectional cross-linguistic relations of first and second language skills in reading comprehension of Spanish-speaking English learners Cross-linguistic transfer in reading in multilingual contexts – recent research trends, Zaretsky, Elena and Mila Schwartz (eds.), pp. 62–88 | Article
This study examines the bidirectional, cross-linguistic associations between language and word-level reading skills and reading comprehension for 51 students in grades 4 to 6 who speak Spanish as first language (L1) and English as second language (L2). Within-language predictors of reading… read more