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Alexandra Gottardo
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Research
Latest papers
Bullying victimization, language proficiency, and school belonging among Syrian refugee early adolescents in Canada: A cross‐lagged and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel study
Journal of Research on Adolescence · 2026
Acculturation and English proficiency among adult newcomer immigrant ESL learners in Canada across language instruction methods.
The international journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior · 2026
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development: A longitudinal study.
Journal of child language · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $44,909
A Call to Action for Wellbeing in Education: A Knowledge Dissemination and Exchange Event
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $35,309
Using priming as a method to facilitate second language vocabulary learning: A quest to inform educational technology
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $86,000
It takes a village: Fostering home-school partnerships in the Global South
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Bullying victimization, language proficiency, and school belonging among Syrian refugee early adolescents in Canada: A cross‐lagged and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel study
Vitoroulis I, Wang S, Al‐Janaideh R, Corominas AS, Paradis J, Georgiades K, Gottardo A, Chen X, Jenkins J
Acculturation and English proficiency among adult newcomer immigrant ESL learners in Canada across language instruction methods.
Jasemi A, Gottardo A, Schwieter JW
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development: A longitudinal study.
Paradis J, Soto-Corominas A, Daskalaki E, Al Janaideh R, Chen X, Gottardo A
Editorial: Culture and second language (L2) learning in migrants.
Pasquarella A, Jia F, Ferreira A, Gottardo A, Schwieter JW
Exploring sources of poor reading comprehension in English language learners.
Li M, Geva E, D'Angelo N, Koh PW, Chen X, Gottardo A
English phonological specificity predicts early French reading difficulty in emerging bilingual children.
Krenca K, Gottardo A, Geva E, Chen X
Parent Scaffolding of Young Children When Engaged with Mobile Technology.
Wood E, Petkovski M, De Pasquale D, Gottardo A, Evans MA, Savage RS
A Call to Action for Wellbeing in Education: A Knowledge Dissemination and Exchange Event
Principal investigators: Ferreyro Mazieres, Sofia
Keywords: wellness education; social emotional learning; community partnerships; inclusion; diverse identities; physical activity; special populations; mental health
Using priming as a method to facilitate second language vocabulary learning: A quest to inform educational technology
Principal investigators: Schwieter, John
Keywords: Second language acquisition; Vocabulary learning; Priming; Educational technology; Language teaching & learning
It takes a village: Fostering home-school partnerships in the Global South
Principal investigators: Gottardo, Alexandra
Keywords: school readiness; parents; Global South
Meeting skills and training needs in the Northwest Territories
Principal investigators: Gottardo, Alexandra
Keywords: adult learning; needs assessment; skills acquisition
Do Oral Language Skills Predict Reading Acquisition? Profiles of EL1 and ELL 2nd and 3rd Grade children and Their Response to Vocabulary Intervention
Principal investigators: Mirza, Amna
Keywords: Reading development; English language learners; Reading disabilities; Learning disabilities; Early identification; Intervention; Vocabulary enhancement
Language experience and linguistic skills among multilingual learners in higher education
Principal investigators: Gottardo, Alexandra
Keywords: (1) second language acquisition; (2) post-secondary education; (3) multilingualism
Using educational technology to develop essential educational competencies in sub-Saharan Africa
Keywords: evidence-based practice; literacy; numeracy; student-centred learning; technology integration; professional development; information literacy; electronic portfolios
Child and youth refugee research coalition (CYRRC): using research to inform best practices for language, literacy, learning, social integration, and child and family wellbeing
Keywords: Syrian child refugees; youth refugees; refugee families; immigrants; services; resilience; language; literacy; learning; literacy; social integration; wellbeing
Using educational technology to develop essential educational competencies in sub-Saharan Africa
Keywords: evidence-based practice; literacy; numeracy; student-centred learning; technology integration; professional development; information literacy; electronic portfolios
Dynamic Assessment of Early Immersion Literacy Learning Competences: A Cross-linguistic and Cross-national Perspective
Principal investigators: Chen, Xi
Keywords: (1) Dynamic assessment; (2) Lexical specificity; (3) Speech perception; (4) Vocabulary; (5) Phonological awareness
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Xi Chen and Alexandra Gottardo: 4 shared papers
- Kathy Georgiades and Jennifer Jenkins: 3 shared papers
- Johanne Paradis and Evangelia Daskalaki: 3 shared papers
- Kathy Georgiades and Irene Vitoroulis: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Jenkins and Irene Vitoroulis: 2 shared papers
- Johanne Paradis and Xi Chen: 2 shared papers
- Johanne Paradis and Alexandra Gottardo: 2 shared papers
- Kathy Georgiades and Johanne Paradis: 1 shared paper
- Kathy Georgiades and Xi Chen: 1 shared paper
- Kathy Georgiades and Alexandra Gottardo: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Jenkins and Johanne Paradis: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Jenkins and Alexandra Gottardo: 1 shared paper
- Irene Vitoroulis and Johanne Paradis: 1 shared paper
- Irene Vitoroulis and Alexandra Gottardo: 1 shared paper
- Xi Chen and Evangelia Daskalaki: 1 shared paper
- Alexandra Gottardo and Eileen Wood: 1 shared paper
- Alexandra Gottardo and Evangelia Daskalaki: 1 shared paper
- Educational Psychology
- Bilingual Education, Second Language Education
- Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
- Psychology
- Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Other
Co-authors at Wilfrid Laurier University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Xi Chen
Bilingual Education, Second Language Education
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Johanne Paradis
Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Evangelia Daskalaki
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Eileen Wood
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Kathy Georgiades
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Jennifer Jenkins
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Irene Vitoroulis
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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