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Silvia Pessoa

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Publications

16

Citations

762

H-Index

14

Active since

2005

Affiliations

Carnegie Mellon University Qatar(Current)

Kent State University

Carnegie Mellon University

University of Puget Sound

Silvia Pessoa is an author at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar specializing in language studies, education, and discourse analysis.

Top concepts

LanguageEducationDiscourse AnalysisRhetoricWritingMultilingualismLanguage EducationEthnicityArgument MiningLanguage Curriculum

Publications per year

2005–2019

16

Publications

16

A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar

Andrew Gardner, Silvia Pessoa, Abdoulaye Diop et al. · Journal of Arabian Studies · 2013 · 103 citations

Ethnicity, Human Migration, Global Migration +17

Students' challenges and development in the transition to academic writing at an English-medium university in Qatar

Silvia Pessoa, Ryan T. Miller, David S. Kaufer · IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching · 2014 · 86 citations

Writing Instruction, Information Literacy, Language Documentation +12

Valued voices: Students’ use of Engagement in argumentative history writing

Ryan T. Miller, Thomas D. Mitchell, Silvia Pessoa · Linguistics and Education · 2014 · 82 citations

Humanities, Argumentation Analysis, Argumentative History Writing +5

Content‐Based Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Discourse Perspective

Silvia Pessoa, H. Duncan Hendry, Richard Donato et al. · Foreign Language Annals · 2007 · 67 citations

Second Language Learning, Spanish Teachers, Education +22

Power and place

Mariana Achugar, Silvia Pessoa · Spanish in Context · 2009 · 66 citations

Ethnicity, Multilingualism, Spatial Politics +22

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