Language acquisition

Teaching English to the World: History, Curriculum, and Practice is a unique collection of English language teaching (ELT) histories, curricula, and personal narratives from non-native speaker (NNS) English teachers around the world.

This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition.

The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal communication of nonhuman primates.

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.

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

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use.

This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech.

The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account.

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.

Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech.

Written by two top vocabulary specialists, this updated edition gives a state-of-the-art introduction to vocabulary teaching and testing.

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.

Originally published in 2004.

The Element examines the nature, role and effects of different type of focus on form in SLA.

Stimulated Recall Methodology in Applied Linguistics and L2 Research provides researchers and students in second language acquisition and applied linguistics with the only how-to guide on using stimulated recalls in their research practice.

Practice researched from different perspectives in a variety of contexts and second languages with implications for teaching and research.

It is intriguing and challenging to learn a language by diving into the worlds of Virtual Reality (3-D environments, avatars, games) and Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, agents).

Continuing the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, Volume 4 contains chapters on three additional languages/language groups--Finnish, Greek, and Korean.

A contemporary overview of recent theory, research, and practice of MALL which is immediately applicable to language teaching contexts.

This collection offers an in-depth study of children''s peer talk and its potential impact on children''s learning.

A one-stop guide providing up-to-date coverage of the central aspects of second language acquisition (SLA).

This volume explores the central role of language across all aspects of public and private life in Africa.

This book is the supporting guide for Speech Bubbles 1,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.

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.

No detailed description available for "e;Studies on Child Language and Aphasia"e;.

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write.

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.

Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time.

This cross-cultural edited volume presents a rich tapestry of experiences, challenges, and innovations, focusing on assessment, course and curriculum design, approaches to pedagogy and teacher professional development in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) in the Global South.

Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism provides foundational knowledge and hands-on advice for designing, conducting, and analysing eye-tracking research in applied linguistics.

This book explains how children''s early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure.

This book is the supporting guide for Speech Bubbles 2, an exciting series created for speech language therapists and pathologists, parents and caregivers, teachers and other professionals working with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development.

The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language: Learning a Second Language with the Tools of the Native Speaker presents a data-driven approach to understanding how native speakers do not use subject and direct object to process language.

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Examines the early linguistic development of children bilingual in English and Cantonese.

This volume encompasses the range of research questions on language-related problems that arise in language teaching, learning and assessment.

A study of the language acquisition and transmission of Hindi, Spanish and Romanian as heritage languages in the United States.

Die Autorin knüpft an die Ausführungen ihres ersten Buches (Spracherwerbsstörungen, achte Auflage 2008) an und stellt jetzt die Praxis der Erfassung und Therapie früher Spracherwerbsstörungen vor.