Roswita Dressler
List of John Benjamins publications for which Roswita Dressler plays a role.
2024 The readability of books for immersion schools: Understanding the role of text complexity, context and literary aspects Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education: Online-First Articles | Article
Few books are available to support reading instruction in minority language immersion programs. Since North American teachers provide children with a choice of books scaffolded in difficulty and suited to their interests, they must resort to creating or adapting their own minority language… read more
2024 Chapter 4. Gender assignment in German as a heritage language in an English-speaking context: A case study of acquisition and maintenance Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll, Hracs, Lindsay (ed.), pp. 88–116 | Chapter
We present a case study of a heritage speaker of German, Luisa, who is growing up in an English-speaking part of Canada, focussing on the acquisition of grammatical gender in German. While German has cues to gender assignment, the acquisition of gender in this setting is compromised by the… read more
2022 Blogging for intercultural communicative competence in study abroad programs: All breadth, no depth? Study Abroad Research in Second Language Acquisition and International Education 7:2, pp. 181–203 | Article
Participants in study abroad (SA) programs (sojourners) are often encouraged to blog as a form of reflective writing, yet little is known about this practice. Generally, reflection facilitates sojourners’ engagement in their personal and professional growth. Drawing from two different but… read more
2019 The methodological affordances and challenges of using Facebook to research study abroad Language learning and interactional experiences in Study Abroad settings, Salaberry, M. Rafael, Kate White and Alfred Rue Burch (eds.), pp. 126–144 | Article
Some study abroad (SA) researchers use Facebook as a tool to reach participants or as the site or context of research. In Dressler and Dressler (2016), we examined the linguistic identity positioning of one sojourner in Facebook posts over two sojourns. In this paper, we determine the… read more