Language acquisition

Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation.

In recent years, corpora have found their way into language instruction, albeit often indirectly, through their role in syllabus and course design and in the production of teaching materials and other resources.

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts.

This book presents cutting-edge research on the production and perception of speech rhythm by speakers of English in countries where it is used as a foreign language or an institutionalised second language (also sometimes known as the Expanding and Outer Circles).

This text illustrates the crucial role of the mother tongue literacy in second language acquisition by presenting findings from a comparative study conducted in primary schools in Senegal.

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.

For many centuries scientists and philosophers have endeavoured to solve the baffling problem of human language.

This book adopts a cross-sectional approach and mainly focuses on one of the core pragmatic constructs, formulaic/pragmatic routines, in addition to components put forward by Roever (2011) and Taguchi (2013).

In this comprehensive introduction, Anne-Michelle Tessier examines how we acquire the sounds and sound patterns of language.

German Grammar in Context, 3rd Edition includes updated textual examples which provide the basis for an accessible and engaging approach to learning grammar.

A reader-friendly publication on teaching modern languages to adolescents, which draws on theory as well as examples from real classrooms.

An in-depth and meticulous study of the English-Spanish bilingual development of two siblings from their first word to age six.

Rethinking Language Education in the Age of Generative AI bridges the gap between theory, research, and practice in AI and language education.

Within foreign language education contexts across the globe, inadequate attention has been paid to documenting the dynamics of identity development, negotiation and management.

This book includes the work of experts from a wide range of backgrounds who share the desire to understand how the human brain represents words.

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

Debates in Second Language Education provides an up-to-date account of the key debates and areas of controversy in the field of second language learning and teaching.

A guide on how to implement CLIL in the classroom to foster motivation, engagement and progress in language learning.

The papers in this volume offer a sampling of contemporary efforts to update the portrayal of study abroad in the applied linguistics literature through attention to its social and cultural aspects.

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the illustrated picture book Harry's Story.

This is the first comprehensive account of prolonged hearing loss and its impact on a language that was once spoken fluently.

The first volume of Modern Cantonese aims to provide solid linguistic training to beginner Cantonese learners, highlighting cultural points with lively language scenarios.

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use.

Corpus Linguistics for Education provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education.

This book focuses on the effects of L1 cognitive resources on L2 reading e.

In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original essays and studies which discuss the most recent insights and trends in the fields of linguistics and foreign language teaching.

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Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds has added to our understanding of the mechanisms and stages of syntactic development and priming.

A comprehensive yet concise survey of Japanese linguistics, from leading scholars in the field.

This is the first edited volume that tackles the acquisition of the present (tense, aspect, temporality), an under-researched area, particularly compared to the acquisition of past temporality.

Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer.

What is the state of that which is not spoken?

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use.

Any informal discussion of a piece of nonsense literature produces highly varying interpretations which retain, however, a common core.

This book is the supporting guide for Speech Bubbles 2, an exciting series created for speech language therapists and pathologists, parents and caregivers, teachers and other professionals working with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development.

An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.