Language acquisition

Dieses Handbuch liefert einen Überblick über Beschaffenheit und soziolinguistische Situation des Deutschen am Rande des geschlossenen deutschen Sprachgebietes in West- und Mitteleuropa.

American English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic, and intonational transcription with a focus on American English.

This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt.

This book focuses on Japanese science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students and their experiences of learning English.

This book offers a novel framework for describing and understanding student identity via the central concept of "e;genre practices"e;, developed through an empirical focus on multimodality within the genre of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) undergraduate presentations.

The study of "e;usage"e; has constituted a major line of second language learning research for decades now.

This book reports in detail the newly developed Communicative Listening Comprehension Test (CLCT) for the National College English Test (CET) of China.

Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at school.

Local Language Testing: Design, Implementation, and Development describes the language testing practice that exists in the intermediate space between large-scale standardized testing and classroom assessment, an area that is rarely addressed in the language testing and assessment literature.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a comprehensive critical survey of the field of L2 pragmatics, collecting a number of chapters that highlight the key theories, methods, pedagogies, and research findings throughout its development over the last four decades.

This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject's metalinguistic capacity to intuitively apprehend the normative - lexical, syntactic, morphological, phonological.

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse.

First published in 1967, this book was based on new descriptions of English emerging from recent research.

This volume provides an integrative review of the emerging and increasing use of network science techniques in cognitive psychology, first developed in mathematics, computer science, sociology, and physics.

First published in 1985.

Explores English grammar through three real-world applications of language development, language disorders and dialects.

The Right Periphery in L2 Chinese is among the first books to try to incorporate both advanced linguistic and acquisition perspectives to show how eight sentence-final particles are represented in English-speaking learners' L2 Chinese.

The volume begins by outlining the development of the teacherstudent relationship according to the main psychological theories.

This volume brings together empirical research that explores interaction in a wide range of educational settings.

Digitalised learning with its promise of autonomy, enhanced learner choice, independence and freedom, is an intuitive and appealing construct but closer examination reveals it to be a rather simplistic proposition, raising the following questions.

Now in its second edition, this fundamental undergraduate textbook provides students with everything they need when studying developmental psychology.

The ability to use language in more literate ways has always been a central outcome of education.

Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist contains narrative accounts of the lives of thirteen well-established applied linguists.

This book draws on real-world case studies to highlight key challenges and support the crafting of relevant and contextual responses.

This volume in honor of Susan M.

Since it was first established in the 1970s the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education.

In an increasingly interconnected world, supporting students as they learn to communicate in linguistically diverse intercultural settings is a significant aim of English language and international education.

Grundschulenglisch kompetent unterrichtenQualitativ hochwertiger Englischunterricht in der Grundschule hängt vor allem von der professionellen Kompetenz der Lehrkräfte ab.

Shunning polemicism and fashioning a new agenda for a critically informed yet practically orientated approach, this book explores aspects of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

An up-to-date overview of second language acquisition, designed to engage 21st-century learners Introducing Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives and Practices provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the main concepts, issues, and debates in second language acquisition studies.

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

The first study into how children acquire Creoles as their first language in the absence of a conventional language model.

The Routledge Handbook of Technological Advances in Researching Language Learning is the first volume to bring together the extant scholarship on the nature and role of digital technology in conducting second language research.

This book draws on theories of second language acquisition (SLA) to illustrate how interactive white board technology can be exploited to support language acquisition.