Language acquisition

Globalization, the Internet and an era of mass travel have combined to produce a world with a language mix on a huge scale.

This volume presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of second language prosody and computer modeling.

This book presents an examination of whether early childhood is a critical period for language acquisition.

Das Buch Unterrichtseinheiten Englisch für die Praxis hilft Fremdsprachenlehrkräften den bildungspolitischen Anforderungen noch besser gerecht zu werden und dabei gleichzeitig hilfreichen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zu folgen.

This book investigates Chinese secondary EFL learners' meaning-making abilities in English L2 writing by adopting theoretical frameworks used in systemic functional linguistics (SFL).

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South.

Methods in current instructed second language acquisition research range from laboratory experiments to ethnography using non-obtrusive participant observation, from cross-sectional designs to longitudinal case studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: metodologias, contextos y recursos para la ensenanza del espanol L2, provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art account of the main methodologies, contexts and resources in Spanish Language Teaching (SLT), a field that has experienced significant growth world-wide in recent decades and has consolidated as an autonomous discipline within Applied Linguistics.

Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy is a cutting-edge collection of empirical research conducted by top scholars focusing on instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) and offering a direct contribution to second language pedagogy by closing the gap between research and practice.

Muffin is a quirky little fish full of fun ideas.

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This book offers a comprehensive resource on the state-of-the-art in L2 pronunciation, surveying the most up-to-date theoretical and methodological developments to highlight the multidimensional nature of pronunciation scholarship and directions for future research.

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.

The issue of differences between translational language and native-speaker language has become a topic of increasing interest in linguistics and Translation Studies (TS).

This volume presents a collection of new articles that investigate the acquisition of Romance languages across different acquisition contexts as well as refine and propose new theoretical constructs such as complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children's, adults', and bilinguals' acquisition of syntactical, morphological, and phonological structures.

'A truly fascinating must-read' - Elinor Cleghorn, bestselling author of Unwell Women'Powerful and well-researched.

Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the analysis of various characteristics within individuals towards a greater consideration of individuals' dynamic interactions with diverse contexts.

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use.

Globalization, the Internet and an era of mass travel have combined to produce a world with a language mix on a huge scale.

This account of language acquisition in a multilingual context explains how hybrid grammars develop and can result in language change.

Assessing Learners' Competence in L2 Chinese is the first book intended to answer the question on whether existing standardised and classroom-based assessments can reflect learners' competence in L2 Chinese.

Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders.

Content-Based Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language explores how content-based instruction can be applied in the teaching of Russian as an additional or heritage language.

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech.

This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective.

This textbook focuses on second language speech - how individuals perceive and produce the sounds of their second language.

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

This book explores stereotypes that learners of six Asian languages- Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese-hold about the target language country, its cultures and people.

Speaking Out: Issues and Controversies ?

Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax.

This is a multi-disciplinary account of language repertoires of early multilingualism across continents, languages and contexts.

Oral assessments are of vital importance to second language learners, but how can teachers and examiners best test L2 learner talk and interaction?

This book explores crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition, drawing insights from a study of young bilingual secondary school students in Germany to unpack the importance of different variables in the acquisition and use of English as an additional language.

This book is about the possibilities and achievements of children, adolescents and adults who have developmental disorders that make their development of speech difficult or very delayed and who therefore need to develop communication and language with other means than speech.

Throughout its evolution, Piaget's theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing.

Addresses questions in the study of first language acquisition in three domains of child language.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

Using detailed analyses of cross-generational case studies, Smith explains the acquisition of language phonology by children.

This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions.

Basil Bernstein began to develop his theory of social structure and power relations during the 1950s and 1960s.

Originally published in 1939, it was only recently that serious study and attention had been given to disorders of speech and there was a growing demand for books dealing with the subject.