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Northern Arizona University: Flagstaff, Arizona, US

1995 to present | Professor Emeritus (Education)
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Norbert Francis

Education and qualifications (1)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Mexico City, MX

1990 to 1994 | Doctorado (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras)
Education
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Norbert Francis

Professional activities (2)

TV Malintzin: San Miguel Canoa, Puebla, MX

2005-01-01 to 2025-01-01 | Consultant
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Norbert Francis

Graduate Institute of Linguistics, National Chengchi University: Taipei, Taiwan, TW

2018-06-30 to 2019-06-29 | Visiting researcher (Graduate Institute of Linguistics)
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Norbert Francis

Works (50 of 51)

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Review of Chen (2023): The sounds of Mandarin: Learning to speak a national language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960

Chinese Language and Discourse. An International and Interdisciplinary Journal
2025-02-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Steven Mithen, The language puzzle: Piecing together the six-million-year story of how words evolved. New York: Basic Books, 2024. Pp. viii + 534.

Journal of Linguistics
2025-01-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Vietnamese Language, Education and Change in and Outside Vietnam

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2025-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis; Thi-Nham Le
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El contacto intercultural e interlingüístico en la alfabetización de adultos

Beoiberística
2024-12-24 | Journal article
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The Origins of Language: An Introduction to Evolutionary Linguistics

Verbum
2024-11-15 | Book review
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The evolution of communication and language in the voices of nature

Biology & Philosophy
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Research on bilingual language processing and how languages are represented in the mind

Cognitive Development
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Review of Frontier Fieldwork: Building a Nation in China’s Borderlands, 1919–45

Asian Studies
2024-03-10 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

I have no enemies: The life and legacy of Liu Xiaobo

Pacific Affairs
2024-01-03 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Bilingual literacy learning in adult education

Journal of Adult Learning, Knowledge and Innovation
2023-12-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Review of Fletcher (2023): Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence

Narrative Inquiry
2023-10-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Cross-Cultural Language Awareness: Contrasting Scenarios of Literacy Learning

Journal of Cognition and Culture
2023-10-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Silvia-Maria Chireac; John McClure; Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

When does second language learning lead to first language attrition?

Communication & Cognition
2023-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

Annals of Vietnam: The Preservation of a Literary Heritage

Journal of Language, Literature and Culture
2023-05-04 | Journal article
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Psycholinguistic approaches to instructed second language acquisition: Linking theory, findings and practice, by Daniel Walter

Issues in Applied Linguistics
2023-01-04 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Choreographies of multilingualism: Writing and language ideology in Singapore, by Tong King Lee

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2022-10-21 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Making sense: What it means to understand, by David Olson

Journal of Linguistics
2022-10-15 | Book review
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

Morris ROSSABI: China and the Uyghurs: A Concise Introduction

Asian Studies
2022-09-02 | Journal article
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Chinese literacy learning by immigrant learners

Chinese as a Second Language Research
2022-05-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Thi-Nham Le; Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

Kingdom of characters: The language revolution that made China modern, by Jin Tsu

Chinese Language and Discourse
2022-04-03 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Verbal art across language and culture: poetry as music

Neohelicon
2021-12 | Journal article
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Language in the Americas: Out of Beringia

Lengua y migración
2021-12-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Narrow and Broad Faculties in System 1 and System 2: Toward Consensus in the Debate on Modularity

Journal of Cognition and Culture
2021-10-14 | Journal article
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The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan by Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang

China Information
2021-04-28 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Review of Understanding Dialogue: Language Use and Social Interaction

Applied Linguistics
2021-04-15 | Book review
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, by Yang Jisheng

Pacific Affairs
2021-02-05 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Language acquisition and development: A generative introduction

First Language
2020-11-05 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

New research on the adoption and transformation of Chinese writing

Chinese Language and Discourse
2020-06-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1877-7031
Part of ISSN: 1877-8798
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Abstraction and Estrangement across the Arts in the Russian Avant-garde

The Poetics of the Avant-garde in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy (ed.) Slav Gratchev
2020-03-20 | Book chapter
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Norbert Francis

Review of The Bilingual Brain and What it Tells Us about the Science of Language

Language and Cognition
2020-03-10 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Indigenous language preservation and literacy learning in communities of Mexico and Ecuador

Aboriginal Education World
2019-10-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

Literacy and the language awareness hypothesis

Writing Systems Research
2019-07-03 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1758-6801
Part of ISSN: 1758-681X
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

Awareness of language: literacy and second language learning of Spanish in Mexico

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2019-05-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Silvia-Maria Chireac; Norbert Francis; John McClure
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Norbert Francis

Cross-language poetics in East Asia

Poetics Today
2019-05-15 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Awareness of form and pattern in literacy assessment: Classroom applications for first and second language

The Reading Matrix
2019-04-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Silvia-Maria Chireac; Norbert Francis; John McClure
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Norbert Francis

The Motherland will Notice her Terrible Mistake: Paradox of Futurism in Jasienski, Mayakovsky and Shklovsky

Victor Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature, Arts and Philosophy
2019-04-04 | Book chapter
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Norbert Francis

Chinese literacy learning in an immersion program by Chan Lü

Applied Linguistics
2019-04-01 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

International research on bilingualism: Cross-language and cross-cultural perspectives

Ethnologia
2018-05-15 | Journal article
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Norbert Francis

Alfabetización en la escuela rural de América latina: Las niñas en la escuela

Contextos Educativos
2018-04-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Silvia-Maria Chireac; Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

Unscripted America: Indigenous languages and the origins of a literate nation, by Sarah Rivett

International Journal of American Linguistics
2018-03-04 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Applied Translation Studies, by T. K. Lee

Applied Linguistics
2018-01-18 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Edge of the Island by Chen Li

China Review International
2018-01-03 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

Review of Becoming bilingual in school and home in Tibetan areas of China: Stories of struggle

China Review International
2018-01-03 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

The Trotsky-Shlovsky debate: Formalism versus Marxism

International Journal of Russian Studies
2017-12-21 | Journal article
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Norbert Francis

Review of How Language Began by Daniel Everett

Journal of Linguistics
2017-12-15 | Book review
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Norbert Francis

In Defense of Alejo Carpentier: On the Origin of Music

Bilingual and Multicultural Perspectives on Poetry, Music and Narrative
2017-06-27 | Book chapter
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Norbert Francis

Bilingual and multicultural perspectives on poetry, music and narrative: The science of art

Rowman & Littlefield
2017-05-04 | Book
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Bilingual development and literacy learning: East Asian and international perspectives

City University of Hong Kong Press
2013 | Book
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

Bilingual competence and bilingual proficiency in child development

MIT Press
2012 | Book
Contributors: Norbert Francis
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Norbert Francis

Language and literacy teaching for indigenous education: A bilingual approach

Multilingual Matters
2002 | Book
Contributors: Norbert Francis; Jon Reyhner
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Norbert Francis
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