Publications

Book

Chen, X., Dronjic, V., & Helms-Park, R. (2016). Second Language Reading: Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge Publishers.

Book Chapters

  • Helms-Park, R., & Dronjic, V. (2016). Crosslinguistic lexical influence: cognate facilitation. In R. Alonso (Ed.), Crosslinguistic Influence (pp. 71-92). Multilingual Matters.
  • Helms-Park, R., Tucker, S-K, & Dronjic, V. (2016). From proto-writing to multimedia literacy: scripts and orthographies through the ages.  In  X. Chen Bumgardner, V. Dronjic,, & R. Helms-Park (Eds.), Second Language Reading: Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Perspectives (pp. 1-31). New York, NY: Routledge Publishers.
  • Wolter, B., & Helms-Park, R.  (2016). Lexical knowledge and processing in second language reading. In  X. Chen Bumgardner, V. Dronjic,, & R. Helms-Park (Eds.), pp. 133-158.
  • Helms-Park, R. (2000). Two decades of heritage language education. In J. Texeira, & V. Da Rosa (Eds.), The Portuguese in Canada (pp. 127-144). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

 Selected Articles

  • Helms-Park, R., Petrescu, M., Pirvulescu, M., & Dronjic, V. (in press).  Trilingual children’s narrative skills in their heritage language and Canada’s official languages. International Journal of Multilingualism.
  • Pirvulescu, M., Hill, V., Nacif, N., Helms-Park, R., & Petrescu, M. (2022). The acquisition of adverbs in child L3 French in Canada. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics7(1).
  • Petrescu, M., & Helms-Park, R. (2021). Trilingualism and reading difficulty in a third (school) language: A case study of an at-risk child in French immersion. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 14687984211041389.
  • Co-author, Namasivayam, A,, et al. (2021). Development and validation of a probe word list to assess speech motor skills in children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology30(2), 622-648.
  • Petrescu, M., & Helms-Park, R. (2018). The lexical development of Canadian-born Romanian L1 bilingual kindergarteners. Languages, 3, 33. (Special issue, edited by J. Liceras, &  R. Fernández Fuertes: Romance languages at the forefront of language acquisition, vol. 1.)
  • Rukholm, V.,  Helms-Park, R., & Smyth, R.  (2017). Facilitating lexical acquisition in beginner learners of Italian through spoken or sung lyrics. Canadian Modern Language Review.
  • Petrescu, M., Helms-Park, R., & Dronjic, V. (2017). The impact of frequency and register on cognate facilitation: comparing Romanian and Vietnamese speakers on the Vocabulary Levels Test. English for Specific Purposes.
  • Helms-Park, R., & Perhan, Z. (2016). The role of explicit instruction in cross-script cognate recognition: The case of Ukrainian-speaking EAP learners. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 21, 17-33.
  • Lieber-Sherkina, M., & Helms-Park, R. (2015). A prototype of a receptive lexical test for a polysynthetic heritage language: The case of Inuttitut in Labrador. Language Testing32(4), 419-442.
  • Dronjic, V., & Helms-Park, R. (2014). Fixed-choice word association tasks as L2 lexical tests: What native-speaker performance reveals about their potential weaknesses. Applied Psycholinguistics35(1), 193-221.
  • Niu, Ruiying, & Helms-Park, R. (2013). The role of interaction and modality in lexical acquisition in a Chinese EFL context. Language Teaching Research18(3), 345-372.
  • Helms-Park, R., & Dronjic, V. (2012). Cognates. Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, vol. 11 (The Lexicon), Wiley Blackwell.
  • Dronjic, V., & Helms-Park, R. (2012). Comparing two independent groups. Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, vol. 1 (Quantitative Methods in Applied Linguistics), Wiley Blackwell.
  • Helms-Park, R. (2004). From a serializing L1 to a non-serializing L2: A preliminary discussion of transfer and Tense-driven restructuring in language contact situations. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 22, 41-51.
  • Helms-Park, R. (2003). Transfer in SLA and creoles: The implications of causative serial verb constructions in the interlanguage of Vietnamese ESL learners. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 25, 2, 211-244.
  • Helms-Park, R. (2002). The need to draw second language learners’ attention to the semantic boundaries of syntactically relevant verb classes. Canadian Modern Language Review, 58, 4, 576-598.
  • Helms-Park, R. (2001). Evidence of lexical transfer in learner syntax: The acquisition of English causatives by speakers of Hindi-Urdu and Vietnamese. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 23, 1, 71-102.
  • Writing and Electronic Literacy
  • Stapleton, P., & Helms-Park, R. (2008). A response to Matsuda and Tardy’s “Voice in academic writing: The rhetorical construction of author identity in blind manuscript review”. English for Specific Purposes , 16, 1, 94-99.
  • Helms-Park, R., Radia, P., & Stapleton, P. (2007). A preliminary assessment of Google Scholar as a source of EAP students’ research materials. The Internet and Higher Education , 10, 1.
  • Stapleton, P., Helms-Park, R., & Radia, P. (2006). The Web as a source of unconventional research materials in second language academic writing. The Internet and Higher Education, 9, 1, 63-74.
  • Stapleton, P., & Helms-Park, R. (2006). Evaluating Web sources in an EAP course: Introducing a multi-trait instrument for feedback and assessment. English for Specific Purposes, 15, 4, 438-455.
  • Helms-Park, R., & Stapleton, P. (2006). How the views of faculty can inform undergraduate Web-based research: Implications for academic writing. Computers and Composition, 23, 4, 444-461.
  • Helms-Park, R., & Stapleton, P. (2003). Questioning the importance of individualized voice in undergraduate L2 argumentative writing: An empirical study with pedagogical implications. Journal of Second Language Writing, 12, 3, 245-265.

Research in progress/articles in preparation

  • Helms-Park, R., & Petrescu, M.C., Predictors of reading difficulties in Hindi-Urdu/English bilingual children (w. Nabeeha Ali, Kiruththika Pushpalingam, and Jameela Rashid).
  • Tam, J., Monahan, P., & Helms-Park, Script-mixing in social media contexts.
  • Yao, J., & Helms-Park, R. Loan-word facilitation.
  • Petrescu, M., Helms-Park, R., & Vonica, M. Macrostructure and microstructure in monolingual Romanian children’s narratives.