Language acquisition

This book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self.

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Individual Differences provides a thorough, in-depth discussion of the theory, research, and pedagogy pertaining to the role individual difference (ID) factors play in second language acquisition (SLA).

Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA).

Now in its second edition, this fundamental undergraduate textbook provides students with everything they need when studying developmental psychology.

Oral assessments are of vital importance to second language learners, but how can teachers and examiners best test L2 learner talk and interaction?

Fundamental Considerations in Technology Mediated Language Assessment aims to address issues such as how the forced integration of technology into second language assessment has shaped our understanding of key traditional concepts like validity, reliability, washback, authenticity, ethics, fairness, test security, and more.

This accessible and engaging textbook offers a practical approach to understanding the complexity of language by exploring language use and language learning in a wide variety of contexts.

Childly Language explores how attitudes and cultural assumptions about children and childhood are revealed in contemporary English.

This volume in honor of Susan M.

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech.

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.

Using diverse language examples and tasks, this book illustrates how intercultural communication theory can inform second language teaching.

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

This book introduces studies on infant and early childhood development that are in a permanent dialogue with the psychology of music, the philosophy of mind, and human movement studies.

This text illustrates the crucial role of the mother tongue literacy in second language acquisition by presenting findings from a comparative study conducted in primary schools in Senegal.

This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully.

This unique state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, systematic discussion of second language (L2) writing and L2 learning.

Using Priming Methods in Second Language Research is an accessible introduction to the use of auditory, semantic, and syntactic priming methods for second language (L2) processing and acquisition research.

Appropriate for those new to the topic and established scholars, this holistic text examines the nexus of advocacy and English-language teaching, beginning with theories of advocacy, covering constraints and challenges in practice, and offering a range of hands-on perspectives in different contexts and with different populations.

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development.

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Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality.

This volume is dedicated to applied linguistic research on multilingualism.

Investigates the acquisition and use of geocentric spatial language for children in Bali, India, Nepal, and Switzerland.

Addressing a rapidly growing interest in second language research, this hands-on text provides students and researchers with the means to understand and use current methods in psycholinguistics.

Originally published in 1986.

This book explores how young children's language development is intricately connected to the context in which it takes place.

Introducing Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives and Practices represents a clear and concise introduction to the main concepts, issues, and debates in second language acquisition studies aimed specifically at undergraduates encountering the topic for the first time.

Using current intervention research on grammatical properties, this textbook explores key concepts in second language acquisition.

Harry loves to hop, and believes he is a 'hopper' - but not everyone agrees.

Viewing Art with Babies demonstrates how to facilitate quality art viewing experiences with babies from as young as 2 months old.

Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory.

A great deal has been written on how children learn to speak, but development of language comprehension has been a relatively neglected topic.

Over the past thirty years, the field of language learning strategies has generated a massive amount of interest and research in applied linguistics.

Explicating clearly and concisely the full implication of a praxis-oriented language pedagogy, this book argues for an approach to language teaching grounded in a significant scientific theory of human learning-a stance that rejects the consumer approach to theory and the dichotomy between theory and practice that dominates SLA and language teaching.

This is the first book devoted to the effects of orthographic forms (spellings) on second language phonology.