Language acquisition

This book looks at some central problems and questions in the study of ellipsis, whereby certain portions of a sentence are unspoken.

This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

A spirited and engaging linguistic and social re-imagination of the role and nature of clichés in communication and interaction.

Since the 1970s researchers in the communicative development of infants and small children had rejected traditional models and began to explore the complex, dynamic properties of communicative exchanges.

This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom.

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

First published in 1816 and revised in 1916, this edition of George Crabb's English Synonyms contains the entirety of his most enduring work.

Emerging from a critical analysis of the glocal power of English and how it relates to academic literacy and culturally responsive pedagogy, this book presents translanguaging strategies for using ESL students' mother tongue as a resource for academic literacy acquisition and college success.

In the context of continuing technological innovation, the field of technology-mediated foreign language learning is expanding rapidly.

This volume in honor of Susan M.

This book is the very first collection of first-person language learning narratives that offers rich introspective data on the various processes and forces shaping the development and maintenance of multiple languages (seven and more) in a single individual.

Originally published in 1977, this book considers the role language plays in psychological development.

In this beautifully illustrated storybook, part of the School Start series, children with language needs can explore the story of Bozo the Clown as he tries to make a new friend.

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

This volume explores the relationship between language and culture while considering its implications for the teaching of modern foreign languages in higher education.

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates.

The study endeavors a detailed and systematic classification of linguistic simultaneity expressions.

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition (SLA) from multiple perspectives, comprehensively updated to reflect the very latest developments SLA research in recent years.

Anglophone students abroad: Identity, social relationships and language learning presents the findings of a major study of British students of French and Spanish undertaking residence abroad.

The study of "e;usage"e; has constituted a major line of second language learning research for decades now.

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

Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at school.

In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address central questions about the form and acquisition of analogy in grammar.

An introduction to the key questions that drive the field of L2 acquisition research, including its historical foundations.

This book presents a case study of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) implemented by universities in Vietnam, making valuable theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the research in EMI which is currently a popular theme in the field of Higher Education.

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

A lively and accessible account which explores the teaching of Chinese as an international language from a Singapore perspective.

This book is the first volume specifically devoted to the phonetics and phonology of geminate consonants, a feature of many of the world's languages including Arabic, Bengali, Finnish, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Malayalam, Persian, Saami, Swiss German, and Turkish.

This book is written in order to help undergraduate students and trainee teachers to reflect on certain topics and key issues related to second language acquisition.

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.

An accessible and comprehensive survey of a fast-growing field, this Handbook explores the many interdisciplinary applications of learner corpus research.

A study of the language acquisition and transmission of Hindi, Spanish and Romanian as heritage languages in the United States.

The study of informal involvement with additional languages has recently emerged as a dynamic research field in SLA.

Reading in Chinese as an Additional Language focuses on Chinese literacy acquisition, which has been considered most difficult by both learners and teachers of Chinese as an additional language (CAL).

Originally published in 1980.

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.

School Start Storybooks support language development in reception and Key Stage 1 aged children both in school and at home.

Third edition of the leading interdisciplinary introduction to second language acquisition, covering linguistic, psychological and social aspects.