Prof. Lee L Mason:

I believe that you would serve as an excellent reviewer of the manuscript, "High-functioning autism and second language development:A case study," which has been submitted to Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. The submission's abstract is inserted below, and I hope that you will consider undertaking this important task for us.

Please log into the journal web site by 2018-05-21 to indicate whether you will undertake the review or not, as well as to access the submission and to record your review and recommendation.

The review itself is due 2018-06-11.

Submission URL: https://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP/reviewer/submission/320?key=ACCESS_KEY

Thank you for considering this request.

Dr. Edil Torres Rivera
South University
edil.torres@sipsych.org



"High-functioning autism and second language development:A case study"

Abstract

Children with autism experience difficulties to develop their first language. Learning a second language (L2) can imply additional challenges even if immersed in a second language environment. The objective of this case study is to describe some of the features of the development of English as L2 in a six-year old child recently arrived in the US with high-functioning autism. The objective is to compare the process with that of typically developing children. Data were obtained from observations of tutorial sessions, which  were recorded, transcribed and analyzed following Vygotsky´s dialectical method, in which learning is seen in a dynamic and complex process. The analysis shows that though the child experiences most phases as typically developing children, some of the autistic features represent a challenge for L2 learning. However, given a permanent support on a one-to-one to one basis, some of these features can become an advantage for L2 learning.

 
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Edil Torres Rivera, Ph.D., Editor
Interamerican Journal of Psychology
http://journal.sipsych.org/index.php/IJP