Language acquisition

Extending the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, this volume contains chapters on seven more languages, including a section on ergative languages.

The introduction and tracking of reference to people or individuals, known as referential movement, is a central feature of coherence, and accounts for "e;about every third word of discourse"e;.

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.

In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original essays and studies which discuss the most recent insights and trends in the fields of linguistics and foreign language teaching.

This book makes a fresh contribution to the field of research ethics by considering research issues through relatable autobiographical narratives.

Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects.

Explores what multilingualism means today, in a historical moment when it is under intense discursive and technological pressure.

This book investigates selected aspects of the grammatical development of Emirati Arabic, the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates and closely related to the varieties spoken in the rest of the Gulf States.

First published in 1983, this book represents a substantial body of detailed research on children's language and communication, and more generally on the nature of interactive spoken discourse.

Presents an overview of research into variables that impact bilingual language acquisition, highlighting research outcomes from various disciplines.

The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world's leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition.

Second Language Teacher Prosody focuses on the prosodic characteristics of input in L2 Spanish classrooms.

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

This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish.

Im vorliegenden Werk untersucht Sofiana Iulia Lindemann das Vorkommen der differentiellen Objektmarkierung (DOM) und der Klitikverdopplung in der Zeitspanne 1800-2000 in verschiedenen Kurzgeschichten aus dem Rumänischen.

This book adopts a cross-sectional approach and mainly focuses on one of the core pragmatic constructs, formulaic/pragmatic routines, in addition to components put forward by Roever (2011) and Taguchi (2013).

The age for early language learning has dropped dramatically in the past decade to include children under 6 years old, yet very little published research exists to support the implementation of such programmes.

Offers an innovative, holistic and evidence-based pedagogic approach to deeper learning for all subjects of schooling.

Today, English is the global lingua franca and competent English communication skills should be one of the rights of all educated individuals irrespective of any socio-cultural limits.

Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.

Offers an up-to-date analysis of issues related to providing, using and researching feedback, including new developments in technology.

Native and Non-Native Teacher Talk in the EFL Classroom explores and compares the linguistic features of native and non-native English teacher talk with the aid of corpus linguistics.

How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context?

Wie kann sprachliche Bildung und Mehrsprachigkeit in Kinder- und Familienzentren unterstützt werden?

Teaching and Researching Chinese Second Language Listening focuses on Chinese L2 listening with theory and pedagogy at its heart.

This volume is a festschrift for Katherine Nelson, an NYU professor who was a pioneer in infant perception and memory.

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.

This book syntheses cutting-edge research on the role of individual differences (IDs) in the field of SLA and in computer assisted language learning.

This book delves into how we come to terms with ourselves, with other people, and with the world in general.

Practice is a recurring and popular theme in language education.

This book, written for both seasoned and novice researchers, presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC), a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second language learning and bilingualism (more) empirical.

First published in 1816 and revised in 1916, this edition of George Crabb's English Synonyms contains the entirety of his most enduring work.

This volume in honor of Susan M.

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

This practical and reassuring guide will enable readers to make informed decisions about how to raise their child bilingually.

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