Language acquisition

The Spanish language is spoken by an estimated 477 million people worldwide.

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

From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse.

During the last 10 years, more and more linguistic and psycholinguistic research has been devoted to the study of discourse and written texts.

Originally published in 1976.

This book critically examines South Korean English teachers' awareness of and attitude towards eight varieties of English and how they respond to the proposal of a World Englishes approach in their teaching practice.

Explains universal concepts of language structure to help students preparing to study a foreign language.

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 picture book and guidebook set has been developed to help raise awareness of Developmental Language Disorder, and to highlight the impact of DLD from the child's point of view.

The workshop Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language held in Osnabruck in 2009 is the starting point for this book.

Butler and Huang's book is one of the first to focus on second language (L2) development research methods and techniques specifically targeted at children of primary and pre-primary years.

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy.

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistic awareness as it relates to SLA.

Will sits and watches the world go by, feeling all alone.

This volume brings together studies, research syntheses, and critical commentaries that examine play-literacy relationships from cognitive, ecological, and cultural perspectives.

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing.

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 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.

Advancing Quantitative Methods in Second Language Research is the first hands-on guide to conducting advanced research methods in the fields of applied linguistics and second language studies.

First published in 1988.

Originally published in 1980 The Verbal Games of Pre-school Children states that in the course of acquiring language, every child recognizes that verbal interaction is a powerful tool which can be used to interpret and manipulate the world.

Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook.

This book includes interviews with fourteen internationally-acclaimed leading figures in Second Language Acquisition (SLA), who speak on seminal issues in the field as well as their own contributions to SLA scholarship.

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

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An extended argument that bilingual speakers have an integrated linguistic competence, rather than two separate grammatical systems.

In this final volume in the series, the contributors attempt to "e;expand the contexts"e; in which child language has been examined crosslinguistically.

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Contextualizing College ESL Classroom Praxis: A Participatory Approach to Effective Instruction provides pre-service and in-service teachers with a model for engaging in effective instruction with the variety of students encountered in college English as a second language or foreign language classrooms.

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes.

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of second language prosody and computer modeling.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the development of communication and language in infancy and childhood.

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

Chan's exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter and posits ways to help them overcome those challenges.

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics.

Grounded in analysis of Chinese and international educational concepts and classroom techniques currently used to teach Chinese as a Second Language, and a thorough review of recent research in the field, this volume identifies the learning challenges of the language for native English speakers.

Using empirical data, this volume explores the link between second language development and social integration of migrant school students.

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

Originally published in 1986.

Designed to provide practical information to those who are concerned with the development of young children, this book has three goals.

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures.