Email

jparadis@ualberta.ca

Phone

(780) 492-0805

Address

4-57 Assiniboia Hall

9137 116 St NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2E7

Email

jparadis@ualberta.ca

I am a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Adjunct Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Alberta. I received my B.A. and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of British Columbia and my PhD in Psychology from McGill University (1998). My research is concerned with bilingualism in children with typical development and in children with developmental disorders, in particular children learning English-as-a-second language from immigrant and refugee families. To date, I have published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters on bilingual children and I am first author of Dual Language Development and Disorders, 3rd Edition, Brookes Publishing (2021). I was the recipient of the 2020 National Achievement Award from the Canadian Linguistic Association.  I am the Director of the Bilingual Acquisition Lab of Alberta (BALA) and I manage the Child English Second Language (CHESL) Centre website which is a collection of language assessment tools for use with bilingual children.

For information on recent publications and current research topics, see my homepage