 | Esther Geva Professor phone: (416) 978-0916 email: ESTHER.GEVA@UTORONTO.CA email: esther.geva@utoronto.ca website: http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/gevalab/ Department: Applied Psychology and Human Development | |
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Research Overview Dr. Geva's research interests include the development of literacy skills in children learning to read in a second language (L2); the relations between oral and written language skills in L2 learners; transfer issues in L2 literacy development; cognitive and linguistic processes and predictors of normal and problematic literacy development in L2 children, and selected topics in cross-cultural psychology pertaining to children's well-being such as parental attribution and concepts of wellness. In applied practice, she is interested in community-based approaches to prevention and intervention in minority groups, and options in assessment and intervention for ESL and other L2 learners. Teaching Overview Dr. Geva's specialty courses include: APD5284: Assessment and Intervention in Multicultural/Bilingual Contexts APD3221: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Children’s Problems CTL3017: Reading in a Second Language Representative Publications Yaghoub Zadeh, Z., Geva, E., & Fagan, M. (2008) The impact of acculturation on the perception of academic achievement by immigrant mothers and their children. School Psychology International, 29(1), 39-70.
Mila Schwartz, Esther Geva, David L. Share, & Mark Leikin (2007). Learning to Read in English as Third language: The Cross-linguistic Transfer of Phonological Processing Skills Written Language & Literacy, 10, 25-52
Geva, E., & Yaghoub Zadeh, Z. (2006). Reading Efficiency in Native English-Speaking and English-as-a-Second-Language Children: The Role of Oral Proficiency and Underlying Cognitive-Linguistic Processes, Scientific Studies of
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