Joel Walters

List of John Benjamins publications for which Joel Walters plays a role.

Title

New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky

Edited by Robert L. Cooper, Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters

[Not in series, 104] 2001. vi, 307 pp.

Subjects Language acquisition | Language policy | Language teaching | Psycholinguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Articles (4) | Order by:

Fichman, Sveta, Joel Walters, Sharon Armon-Lotem and Carmit Altman 2022 The impact of language dominance on Russian-Hebrew bilingual children’s narrative production: Microstructure, macrostructure, and Internal State Terms Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills, Bohnacker, Ute and Natalia Gagarina (eds.), pp. 509–539 | Article

The study explores the effect of language dominance on microstructure, macrostructure, and Internal State Terms (ISTs) in narratives of Russian-Hebrew bilingual children and examines within-language and cross-language associations between narrative elements in two dominance groups. Narratives… read more

Meir, Natalia, Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem 2017 Bi-directional cross-linguistic influence in bilingual Russian-Hebrew children Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:5, pp. 514–553 | To be specified

This study examines cross-linguistic influence of L1 on L2 and L2 on L1 and the extent to which age of L2 onset (L2 AoO) is linked to the acquisition of morpho-syntactic properties in both languages of bilingual children who acquire L1-Russian as a heritage language and L2-Hebrew as a majority… read more

Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Susan Joffe, Hadar Abutbul-Oz, Carmit Altman and Joel Walters 2014 Language exposure, ethnolinguistic identity and attitudes in the acquisition of Hebrew as a second language among bilingual preschool children from Russian- and English-speaking backgrounds Input and Experience in Bilingual Development, Grüter, Theres and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 77–98 | Article

This chapter examines the influence of sociolinguistic and exposure factors on second language (L2) proficiency in Russian-Hebrew and English-Hebrew (second generation) preschool children. The children come from two distinct ethnolinguistic populations with different motivations for immigration and… read more

Armon-Lotem, Sharon, Joel Walters and Natalia Gagarina 2011 The impact of internal and external factors on linguistic performance in the home language and in L2 among Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German preschool children Internal and External Factors in Child Second Language Acquisition, Hulk, Aafke and Theodoros Marinis (eds.), pp. 291–317 | Article

This paper evaluates the contribution of external background factors which pertain to the child’s environment (e.g., parents’ education, parents’ occupation, family size, etc.), and internal ones which reflect the child’s time related experience with language (e.g., chronological age, age of L2… read more