Language acquisition

This book is the supporting guide for Speech Bubbles 1,the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists, parents/caregivers, and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development, children receiving speech therapy, or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children.

Initial Language Teacher Education provides language teacher researchers, as well as teachers of teachers, with an introduction to research on how language teachers learn to teach before they begin practicing.

Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics.

Over the past thirty years, the field of language learning strategies has generated a massive amount of interest and research in applied linguistics.

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion.

What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development?

Two decades ago, Mandarin Chinese seemed set to become a mainstream school subject in Anglophone settings.

In this book John A.

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

Rastelli shows how data comparison is improving our understanding of how learners acquire the aspectual distinctions of the target-language.

Proposes a new analytical approach to the semantics of Russian verbal prefixes, using modern theoretical tools to explore wide-ranging data.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

Language learning research aims to describe and fully explain how and why language learning takes place, but can fall short of its stated purpose.

In recent years, the expansion of screen media, including film, TV, music videos, and computer games, has inspired new tools for both educators and learners.

This book presents a view of human language as social interaction, illustrating its implications for language learning and second language teaching.

This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent.

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and language testing: shared ground where researchers seek to measure second language performance to better understand how people learn their second languages.

Based on a research project funded by the Army Research Institute, Foreign Language Learning reports original empirical and theoretical research on foreign language acquisition and makes recommendations about applications to foreign language instruction.

As one of the most recognized names in the fields of language assessment and applied linguistics, Lyle F.

Critical Thinking provides language teachers with a dynamic framework for encouraging critical thinking skills in explicit, systematic ways during their lessons.

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).

This comprehensive account of performance-based assessment of L2 lexical proficiency analyzes and compares two of the primary methods of evaluation used in the field and unpacks the ways in which they tap into different dimensions of one model of lexical competence and proficiency.

This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood.

This volume tracks the impact Processing Instruction has made since its conception.

Pete, Jem and Belle play hide and seek.

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax.

This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations.

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

The use of sign language has a long history.

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/foreign language through the lens of instructed second language acquisition.

Reflective Language Teaching: Practical Applications for TESOL Teachers is an extensively revised and updated second edition of the popular and accessible text Reflective Language Teaching: From Research to Practice originally published in 2008.

The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan.

This book provides a critical analysis and account of the development of the Comprehension Approach as a method for language learning.

Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population.

Explores contemporary US television dialogue - the on-screen language that viewers worldwide encounter as they watch popular television series.

This volume, containing fourteen invited papers on foreign-language policy, starts off with a brief history of foreign-language teaching policy in the Netherlands.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning: Quantitative Methods and Outcomes provides a how-to guide to choosing, using, and understanding quantitative longitudinal research and sampling methods in second and foreign language learning.

The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances.