Language acquisition

Within foreign language education contexts across the globe, inadequate attention has been paid to documenting the dynamics of identity development, negotiation and management.

This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG).

As a testament to the scope of Peter MacNeilage's scholarly work across his 40 year career, contributions to this tribute volume represent a broad spectrum of the seminal issues addressed by phonetic and evolutionary science over a number of years.

Diese Deutschdidaktik verbindet Sprach- und Literaturdidaktik unter Beachtung des Zweitspracherwerbs.

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

Due to the rapid development of gaming technologies in recent years, there has been a surge of interest in the role that digital games can play in foreign and second language learning.

This module on the nature of language aims to provide the novice and even experienced teacher with a broad and accessible picture of language as a formal system.

This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension, production, and acquisition of second language (L2) phonology, syntax, and lexicon.

Identity and Communicative Competence in Spanish for Specific Purposes analyzes the experiences of three Spanish for specific purposes (SSP) students, offering insight into the intersectionality of society, politics, identity, and linguistics in community-based settings.

This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition.

Describes how intellectual development of bilingual children differs from that of monolingual children.

This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development.

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

Anglophone students abroad: Identity, social relationships and language learning presents the findings of a major study of British students of French and Spanish undertaking residence abroad.

Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanzees, uncovering the historical reality of the research.

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes.

This volume presents the second edition of the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme.

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes.

Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children's major linguistic achievements.

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

Grounded in a systemic functional linguistic (SFL) approach, this book applies a contrastive interlanguage corpus-based approach to investigate the nature and role of L2 intonation and its pragmatic function in spoken discourse.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education provides an accessible, authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date resource of English language teacher education.

One of the key issues in second language learning and teaching concerns the role and practice of grammar instruction.

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology.

This book relates the author's stories about how languages have integrated her being, and defined and formed her sense of self.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

As the first title in the new series, New Directions in Communication Disorders Research: Integrative Approaches, this volume discusses a unique phenomenon in cognitive science, single-word reading, which is an essential element in successful reading competence.

Pete and Jem are very helpful at the supermarket, but end up causing chaos with a tower of food on display.

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

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan.

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting stalled in the complex specifics.

Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people''s daily literate experience.

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy.

Childly Language explores how attitudes and cultural assumptions about children and childhood are revealed in contemporary English.

This book provides a critical analysis and account of the development of the Comprehension Approach as a method for language learning.

This collection brings together linguistic, psychological, and sociological perspectives reflecting on the relationships and interactions of the multilayered factors impacting second language development and cognitive competence.