Language acquisition

This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles.

This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance, most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII, held in Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain, in September 2016.

This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA-7) conference.

This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics.

A Reference Grammar for Teaching Chinese - Syntax and Discourse presents a comprehensive guide on the major issues in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

This book fills the gap in World Englishes studies in terms of the pedagogic implication of China English and its use in the Chinese workplace.

This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.

This book is the first edited book to cover a wide range of issues related to Chinese as a second language (CSL) speech, including tone and segment acquisition and processing, categorical perception of tones, CSL fluency, CSL intelligibility/comprehensibility and accentedness, and pronunciation pedagogy.

Drawing on experiences of ESOL teachers from around the world, this book provides insights into how peer learning is understood and used in real language classrooms.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

Drawing on experiences of ESOL teachers from around the world, this book provides insights into how peer learning is understood and used in real language classrooms.

The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign language (SFL) writing.

In recent years, the expansion of screen media, including film, TV, music videos, and computer games, has inspired new tools for both educators and learners.

As one of the most recognized names in the fields of language assessment and applied linguistics, Lyle F.

In recent years, the expansion of screen media, including film, TV, music videos, and computer games, has inspired new tools for both educators and learners.

Written by two top vocabulary specialists, this updated edition gives a state-of-the-art introduction to vocabulary teaching and testing.

Written in a clear, approachable way, this is an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to phonetics, ideal for beginners.

The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign language (SFL) writing.

The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan.

This book explores the concept of disfluency in speech production, particularly as it occurs in the context of second language acquisition.

Studies on L2 writing tasks with child learners have broken through several barriers in the past few years.

This edited volume offers an insightful theoretical conceptualization of issues central to 21st century foreign language learning and teaching.

Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication.

This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies.

Widely considered to be a foundational work in the field of listening, Teaching and Researching Listening is among the most recommended textbooks in applied linguistics oral communication courses, and the most cited reference in current research on second language listening development.

Wu's book provides an innovative perspective on, and recommendations for, the major aspects of second language (L2) teaching from a Hegelian anthro-philosophical perspective.

This book explores how speech and language therapists can use a wide range of multi-modal therapy techniques to elicit speech sound.

Practice is a recurring and popular theme in language education.

Wu's book provides an innovative perspective on, and recommendations for, the major aspects of second language (L2) teaching from a Hegelian anthro-philosophical perspective.

Practice is a recurring and popular theme in language education.

This book explores how speech and language therapists can use a wide range of multi-modal therapy techniques to elicit speech sound.

The seventh edition of this classic second language acquisition (SLA) text provides an overview of the theoretical foundations of language teaching.

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology.

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics.

Cognitive Task Complexity and Second Language Performance provides an overview of research focusing on the effects of cognitive task complexity (CTC) on second language (L2) performance.

This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the research methods used by the Generative Second Language Acquisition framework.

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development.

Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings.

*Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award*Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning.

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition introduces major current approaches in Arabic second language acquisition (SLA) research and offers empirical findings on crucial aspects and issues to do with the learning of Arabic as a foreign language and Arabic SLA.

The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research aims to answer key questions about the validity and uses of think-alouds, verbal reports completed by research participants while they perform a task.

This book traces the evolutionary trajectory of language and teaching from the earliest periods of human evolution to the present day.

This edited collection provides research-informed guidance on how reflexivity may be practised in applied linguistics research.

Confident Speaking provides language teachers and teacher educators with evidence-informed ideas to help second language (L2) learners speak fluently and confidently in different social and academic contexts.

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition.

This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500.