Selected Publications

Clachar, A. “Codeswitching among  African-American English, Spanish and Standard English: Negotiation of  Identities by Puerto Rican Students” pp. 61-80, 2016.  In Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo, Mazak, Catherine, and M.Carmen Parafita Couto (Eds.) Spanish-English Codeswitching in the Caribbean and the U. S. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Clachar, A. “Processing Subject Relative Clauses in English: Evidence from Child  Speakers of English-Lexified Creoles” Applied Linguistics Vol, 36, No.5,  pp. 635-640, 2015

Clachar, A. “El efecto de la comunicación mediada por computadora en la adquisición de los registros  del discurso académico en español : Migrantes puertorriqueños de retorno en Puerto Rico” [The Effect of Computer-Mediated Communication on the Development of Spanish Academic Registers: Puerto Rican Return Migrants  in Puerto Rico]  Spanish  in  Context Vol. 7, No. 2,  pp. 173-193, 2010.

Clachar, A. “Negociación de Identidades a través de la Estructura Lingüística  y la Opción Lingüística: Migrantes Puertorriqueños de Retorno en Compañías Americanas en Puerto Rico” [Negotiation of  Identities through Linguistic Structure and Linguistic  Choice: Puerto Rican Return Migrants in American Companies in Puerto Rico] Revista Internacional de Lingüística Iberoamericana Vol.V,  No. 10, pp. 147-162,  2007.

Clachar, A. Re-examining ESL Programs in Public Schools: A Focus on Creole-English Children’s Clause-Structuring Strategies in Written Academic Discourse” Forum on Public Policy: A  Journal of the Oxford Round Table pp.1-38, Fall 2006.

Clachar, A. “Creole-English Speakers’ Treatment of Tense-Aspect Morphology in English Interlanguage Written Discourse” Language Learning Vol.55, No. 2, pp. 275-334, 2005.

Clachar, A. “Creole Discourse Effects on the Speech Conjunctive System in Expository Texts” Journal of Pragmatics Vol. 36, No.10, pp. 1827-1850, 2004.

Clachar, A. “The Construction of Creole-Speaking Students’ Linguistic Profile and Contradictions in ESL Literacy Programs” TESOL Quarterly Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 153-166, 2004

Clachar, A. “Paratactic Conjunctions in Creole Speakers’ and ESL Learners’ Academic Writing”  World Englishes Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 271-289, 2003.

Clachar, A. “What Do Creole Speakers Reveal about the Acquisition of Aspect Marking in L2?” Studies in the Linguistic Sciences  Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 27-49, 2000.

Clachar, A. “Redressing Ethnic Conflict through Morphosyntactic Creativity in Code-Mixing” Language and Communication Vol. 20, No.4,   pp. 311 – 327, 2000.

Clachar, A.  “Opposition and  Accommodation :  An Examination of  Turkish Teachers’  Attitudes  Toward  Western Approaches to the Teaching of  Writing” Research in the Teaching of  English  Vol. 35,  No. 1,  pp. 66 -100, 2000.

Clachar, A. “Métodos de enseñanza en el colegio universitario para fomentar el locus de control interno en el aprendizaje del español como segundo idioma” [“Strategies  for  Fostering   Internal  Locus of Control in College Students Learning Spanish as a Second Language”] Hispania Vol. 82, No. 1, pp.113-120, 1999.

Clachar, A. “It’s Not Just Cognition: The Effect of Emotion on Multiple-Level Discourse Processing in Second Language Writing” Language Sciences Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 31-60, 1999.

Clachar, A. “Differential Effects of Linguistic Imperialism on Second Language Learning: Americanization in Puerto Rico versus Russification in Estonia” International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 102-119, 1998.

Clachar, A. “Resistance to the English Language in Puerto Rico: Toward A Theory of Language and Intergroup Distinctiveness” Linguistics and Education Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 69-97, 1997.                    

Clachar, A. “Students’ Reflections on the Social, Political, and Ideological Role of English in Puerto Rico” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 461-478, 1997.

Clachar, A. “Ethnolinguistic Identity and Spanish Proficiency in a Paradoxical Situation: The Case of Puerto Rican Return Migrants” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 107-125, 1997.     

Clachar, A. “Dimensions of Locus of Control: Exploring Their Influence on ESL Students’ Interlanguage Development” Issues in Applied Linguistics Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 7-41, 1992.

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