Language acquisition

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 handbook draws together international perspectives on technology and its application to language teaching and learning, written and edited by leading scholars in the field.

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

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

Why has English language proficiency in Japan remained so low in comparison to other Asian countries?

This book is about two innovative methods for teachers of bilingual students to use in improving their academic achievement.

Teaching and Researching Chinese Second Language Listening focuses on Chinese L2 listening with theory and pedagogy at its heart.

First published in 1983, this book represents a substantial body of detailed research on children's language and communication, and more generally on the nature of interactive spoken discourse.

This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition.

First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research.

Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research speaks to the rapidly growing area of second language writing by providing a uniquely balanced approach to L2 writing research.

Is language somehow innate in the structure of the human brain, or is it completely learned?

Formacion de palabras y ensenanza del espanol LE/L2 offers a unique combination of theory and practice that guides the reader through the main processes of word formation in Spanish.

As the first title in the new series, New Directions in Communication Disorders Research: Integrative Approaches, this volume discusses a unique phenomenon in cognitive science, single-word reading, which is an essential element in successful reading competence.

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

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.

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

How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics.

Key Issues in the Teaching of Spanish Pronunciation: From Description to Pedagogy is a resource that encourages Spanish teachers and curriculum designers to increase their incorporation of pronunciation into the classroom.

This book presents comprehensive and rigorous research on the acquisition of Chinese negation by L1-English and L1-Korean learners within the theoretical framework of the Interface Hypothesis and the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis.

Researchers working at the intersections of language and education reflect on how their life experiences have informed their research.

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Stromqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "e;frog-story studies"e; book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994).

The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood presents recent research on the nature of language acquisition by typically and atypically developing monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children.

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situated, dynamic, and complex view of multilingual writers through their second language (L2) academic writing and creative writing.

As a testament to the scope of Peter MacNeilage's scholarly work across his 40 year career, contributions to this tribute volume represent a broad spectrum of the seminal issues addressed by phonetic and evolutionary science over a number of years.

First published in 1986, this authoritative book contains a selection of original, research based, reports of studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand in the field of Child Development.

The age for early language learning has dropped dramatically in the past decade to include children under 6 years old, yet very little published research exists to support the implementation of such programmes.

Language Aptitude: Advancing Theory, Testing, Research and Practice brings together cutting-edge global perspectives on foreign language aptitude.

Past studies of family language socialization often focus on children's verbal communication skills and are conducted from the parents' perspective.

Second Language Pragmatics: From Theory to Research aims to reinvigorate this field, pointing the way forward to new methodologies that can drive, or be driven by, new theoretical developments.

This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive and accessible examination of perspectives within the field of discourse analysis on the processes and conditions of second language learning, teaching, and use.

This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean, and Chinese women's orientation to English study.

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition.

As a testament to the scope of Peter MacNeilage's scholarly work across his 40 year career, contributions to this tribute volume represent a broad spectrum of the seminal issues addressed by phonetic and evolutionary science over a number of years.

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Salience in Second Language Acquisition brings together contributions from top scholars of second language acquisition (SLA) in a comprehensive volume of the existing literature and current research on salience.

Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners.

Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough introduction to the field of second language processing (SLP).

Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy is a cutting-edge collection of empirical research conducted by top scholars focusing on instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) and offering a direct contribution to second language pedagogy by closing the gap between research and practice.