Language acquisition

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children.

This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system.

This edited volume provides a single coherent overview of vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking).

Explains universal concepts of language structure to help students preparing to study a foreign language.

This book explores a new approach to understanding the evolution of mind and consciousness by examining the perceptual abilities of animals and the way they experience their world.

Diese Studie untersucht, wie deutschsprachige Kinder - im Vergleich zu Erwachsenen - ambige Koordinationen wie "Robert gab Leo ein Buch und Hans eine CD" interpretieren.

Tiger wakes from a dream to find a big bite on his tail - but can he discover who is the culprit?

Pete, Jem and Belle are enjoying a day at the beach until the weather turns stormy.

Much of the groundbreaking work in many fields is now occurring at the intersection of traditional academic disciplines.

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

Effective language learning depends on effective instruction.

Speech Bubbles 1 is 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.

The concept of Pedagogical Norm is grounded in both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic principles.

Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) Guidebook and Training Website: Project Play offers a comprehensive assessment of naturally occurring play activities for evaluating young children's developmental progress accurately, so that useful interventions can take place as early as possible.

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.

Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings.

The latest title in the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series presents a comprehensive review of connectionist research in second language acquisition (SLA).

This innovative volume offers a comprehensive account of the study of language change in verb meaning in the history of the English language.

This book provides educators (including but not limited to those at university level) with data-driven insights into video-mediated interaction.

This book uncovers the challenges posed by globalization to Asian jurisdictions in English language teaching and teacher education.

This innovative book links theory to practice with regard to teaching pragmatics.

The Bilingualism Reader is the definitive reader for the study of bilingualism.

Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic.

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English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia: New Insights into Teaching and Learning English offers a detailed discussion of key aspects of teaching and learning English in the Saudi context and offers a comprehensive overview of related research authored or co-authored by Saudi researchers.

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

This edited collection considers the relationship between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology-enhanced learning.

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

This handbook offers an extensive crosslinguistic and cross-theoretical survey of polysynthetic languages, in which single multi-morpheme verb forms can express what would be whole sentences in English.

This book deals with the emergence of nominal morphology from a cross-linguistic perspective and is closely related to Development of Verb Inflection in First Language Acquisition (ed.

Spanish Vocabulary Learning in Meaning-Oriented Instruction is the first comprehensive overview of current research and instructional practices into Spanish vocabulary acquisition through the lens of Meaning-Oriented Instruction (MOI).

The use of literary texts in language classrooms is firmly established, but new questions arise with the transfer to remote teaching and learning.

This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of both spoken and written production.

Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience.

Cognitive Task Complexity and Second Language Performance provides an overview of research focusing on the effects of cognitive task complexity (CTC) on second language (L2) performance.

Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years.

Despite unsubstantiated claims of best practice, the division of language-teaching professionals on the basis of their categorization as 'native-speakers' or 'non-native speakers' continues to cascade throughout the academic literature.

Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition includes definitions of key terms within second language acquisition, and also provides accessible summaries of the key issues within this complex area of study.