Robin Scarcella

A linguist by training, Dr. Robin Scarcella is best known for her work on academic literacy and second language development. Early in her career, she worked in the areas of age differences in second language development, exploring such questions as whether older learners acquired the morphological and syntactic features of their second language more successfully and more rapidly than younger learners and the extent to which immigrant children’s exposure to English shaped their oral language development.

WRITE Center: Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation

The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C190007 to University of California, Irvine. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.