Language acquisition

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.

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.

This book focuses on what is involved in acquiring a second dialect and how such learning is different from second language acquisition.

Deaf People and Society is an authoritative text that emphasizes the complexities of being D/deaf, DeafBlind, Deaf-Disabled, or hard of hearing, drawing on perspectives from psychology, education, and sociology.

Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing.

Offers ready-made, theory-driven deeper-learning materials across subjects to show how to put a pluriliteracies approach into practice.

Almost all low- and middle-income postcolonial countries now use English or another dominant language as the medium of instruction for some, if not all, of the basic education cycle.

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

Now in a revised and updated second edition, Early Visual Skills is a practical manual for use with children and young people who have underdeveloped visual perceptual skills.

This state-of-the-art volume is the first to capture a hybrid discipline that studies the role and linguistic implications of the human mind in language learning and teaching.

This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics.

From its historical development to its current context, this is the first full-length overview of middle-class African American English.

This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children.

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996.

This book focuses on assessing L2 student digital multimodal composing (DMC) competence.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Educationwill present the state of the art of the place and role of translation in educational contexts worldwide.

This book provides a comprehensive review of new developments in the study of language processing and related neural networks in schizophrenia by addressing the complex link between psychopathology, language and evolution at different levels of analysis.

This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages.

In recent years we have witnessed a growing interest in multilingualism and its relationship with the learning and teaching of second/foreign languages.

A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization.

This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages.

This book fills the gap in World Englishes studies in terms of the pedagogic implication of China English and its use in the Chinese workplace.

This book aims to bridge the gap in investigations into the acquisition of phonology from a multilingual perspective.

Covering both theoretical and practical approaches, Writing the Research Paper guides students studying in English as a second or additional language through the skills necessary for success in university-level writing and research.

This book describes a new approach to teaching foreign languages for primary and secondary school that shifts the attention from learning the language to communicate skillfully in the foreign language.

This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA).

This Element explains how different language learning settings dynamically affect bilingual children''s language learning trajectories.

This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann 1998, 2005).

"e;Auch"e; and "e;noch"e; in Child and Adult German is an empirical study of the early acquisition of "e;auch"e; (also) and "e;noch"e; (also/still) in German, and the adult use of these additive particles in spoken language.

This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model.

The third volume of Modern Cantonese aims to broaden learners' Cantonese language skills by teaching students how to deal with, discuss, persuade, and summarize topics related to sophisticated work-related situations.

This book offers educators practical strategies to cultivate agency in both teachers and learners.

Drawing on experiences of ESOL teachers from around the world, this book provides insights into how peer learning is understood and used in real language classrooms.

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

This volume brings together the current theoretical interest in reconceptualizing second and foreign language learning from a sociocultural perspective on language and learning, with practical concerns about second and foreign language pedagogy.

This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition.