Language acquisition

Originally published in 1982, the editors felt that their field was clearly in need of explanatory accounts for many different areas.

This book contributes to the field of L2 writing, with a focus on instruction in revision.

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

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 presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words.

This book features effective artistic practices to improve literacy and language skills for emergent bilinguals in PreK-12 schools.

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

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project.

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

Originally published in 1992.

'Babel' steht für die Begegnung von Sprachen und Sprechern verschiedener Sprachen.

Originally published in 1983, the aim of this book was to discuss some fundamental problems of cognitive developmental psychology at the time.

The use of sign language has a long history.

This timely collection explores the role of digital technology in language education and assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts.

The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers.

Writing Using Sources for Academic Purposes: Theory, Research and Practice provides research-based information about key components of source-based writing, and the challenges it presents for novices.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Morphology presents a state-of-the-art, detailed and exhaustive overview of all aspects of Spanish morphology, paying equal attention to the empirical complexities of the morphological system and the theoretical issues that they raise.

Across the world, education is being restructured to include greater focus on developing critical and creative skills.

Have you ever seen a yeti?

This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognition.

First published in 1990, this collection celebrates the life and work of Professor A.

The aim of this volume is to highlight the benefits and potential of using learner corpora for the testing and assessment of L2 proficiency in both speaking and writing, reflecting the growing importance of learner corpora in applied linguistics and second language acquisition research.

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

Understanding how communicative goals impact and drive the learning process has been a long-standing issue in the field of language acquisition.

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

Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve long-term success in languages beyond the first language.

Pete and Jem get ready for Belle's birthday, but get stuck trying to blow up balloons.

This book explores how young children's language development is intricately connected to the context in which it takes place.

Die bewährte Einführung in die germanistische Linguistik ist speziell auf die Bedürfnisse der modularisierten Studiengänge zugeschnitten.

This book describes a study on the question of what sort of innate knowledge it is that enables children to acquire a first language.

The Routledge Handbook of Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Development is the first comprehensive overview of the field of sociocultural second language acquisition (SLA).

Anybody with the chance of teaching English to Indonesian speakers should have experienced difficulties when it comes to non-verbal predicates and the placement of be.

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

Over the past four decades, learning Chinese as a second language has transformed from individual small-scale endeavors to organized mass studies worldwide.

This book focuses on the role of cross-language awareness in foreign language learning, especially unrelated languages as a third or additional language.

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun playing in the snow until they run into each other and fall over.

ELT: The Basics offers a clear, non-jargonistic introduction to English language teaching for EFL/ESL teachers in training, early career teachers, those considering taking up ELT, and experienced teachers who may want to read about the way the profession has developed and continues to evolve.

Originally published in 1983, the main aim of this volume was to suggest new ways of conceptualizing human development and new domains of theorizing and engaging in practice for those who were vitally concerned with the nature and value of human beings.

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.

This edited volume represents state of the field research linking cognition and second language acquisition, reflecting the experience of the learner when engaged in noticing, input/output processing, retrieval, and even attrition of target forms.