Language acquisition

Picturebooks, understood as a series of meaningful text-picture relations, are increasingly acknowledged as an autonomous sub-genre of children's literature.

This book describes a theory-guided approach to Foreign Language (FL) course development, implementation, instruction and assessment.

Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding Circle distinction and shed light on the genesis of postcolonial varieties of English.

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species.

Aldona Sopatas Arbeit untersucht die beiden Hauptfaktoren für den bilingualen Spracherwerb: Alter und Input.

This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors' role in second language acquisition (SLA) through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups.

Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic theory of translation, with numerous examples and exercises.

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

This book explores self-concept in foreign language (FL) learning, tracing the trajectories of a group of Japanese language learners at an Australian university to illuminate new insights about the factors impacting positive self-concept and implications for language learning more broadly.

This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987.

This volume encompasses the range of research questions on language-related problems that arise in language teaching, learning and assessment.

This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and activities.

This volume brings together ten contributions to the study of untutored (mainly) second but also first language acquisition.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

This volume explores the instructional use of creative writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts to enhance students' language proficiency and expression in English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL).

Children learn a great deal from other people, including history, science and religion, as well as language itself.

In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate.

This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it).

Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the historical reality of the research.

This book examines the language development of two children from the ages of two till four, who are growing up exposed to English, Swiss German and French.

This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context.

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

Offering unique coverage of an emerging, interdisciplinary area, this comprehensive handbook examines the theoretical underpinnings and emergent conceptions of intercultural mediation in related fields of study.

This volume presents recent generative research on the nature of grammars of child second language (L2) acquirers -- a learner population whose exposure to an L2 occurs between the ages of 4 to 8.

Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment.

One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience.

Developed directly with the IB to be fully integrated with the revised MYP Language Acquisition framework, for first teaching in 2020.

This book explores a much-debated area of language acquisition: the omission by young children of direct objects in a sentence.

Down the Slide, part of the 'Words Together' series, has been created to support children to understand and use two-word sentences.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

Each child is spoken to by genetic heritage and by the rich current set of interactional environments -- familial, local community, and broader cultural voices.

A Hybrid Approach to Teaching Chinese through Digital Humanities, CALL, and Project-Based Learning presents an exposition of current thinking, research, and best practices in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Digital Humanities (DH), and Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in the context of teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL).

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.

Written by a team of leading scholars, this book examines how third languages are learned and processed in the brain.

This skills-oriented handbook for English Medium Instruction (EMI) learners provides students with a toolbox of strategies and approaches to maximise their performance in their courses.

Comprehensive and evidence-based, this book presents the best practices for designing and sustaining study abroad programs to maximize the outcomes and benefits of education abroad for all students.