Language acquisition

Demonstrates that language awareness and discourse consciousness are key for critical thinking and communication in professional contexts.

From leading scholar and applied linguist Paul Nation, this book describes and explains the 20 most effective and efficient language teaching techniques and why they work.

This book explores and analyses Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) pedagogic practices and learning experiences within a cohort of low socio-economic status students within an Australian primary classroom.

''Native speakers'' and ''native users'' are playing the same game, sharing, as they do, the model of the Standard Language.

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.

What does it mean to advocate - in translation, for translation, through translation?

Highlighting marginalized but significant perspectives about the sociopolitical essence of English language tests and testing processes worldwide, this book explores the social considerations of testing theories and practices from a critical perspective.

The first volume of Modern Cantonese aims to provide solid linguistic training to beginner Cantonese learners, highlighting cultural points with lively language scenarios.

This is a tale of two brothers, duelling to become a dragon drawing champion.

The use of literary texts in language classrooms is firmly established, but new questions arise with the transfer to remote teaching and learning.

Das Buch von Barbara Zollinger erweitert und vertieft die Themen, welche sie in ihren erfolgreichen Büchern "Spracherwerbsstörungen" und "Die Entdeckung der Sprache" vorgestellt hat.

Intermediate Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook is an accessible reference grammar presenting twenty-two individual grammar points in realistic contexts with practise exercises in each unit designed to reinforce and consolidate learning.

Die vorliegende Bibliographie ist das erste Ergebnis eines von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft von 1974 bis 1978 geförderten Forschungsprojekts.

This handbook presents the first systematic account of corpus phonology - the employment of corpora for studying speakers' and listeners' acquisition and knowledge of the sound system of their native languages and the principles underlying those systems.

This guidebook has been created to accompany the Grammar Tales story books, a collection of beautifully illustrated picture books designed to support grammar and language development in children.

This innovative, timely text introduces the theory, research, and classroom application of critical approaches to the teaching of minoritized heritage learners, foregrounding sociopolitical concerns in language education.

Relational Frame Theory: What is it?

This book explores how speech and language therapists can use a wide range of multi-modal therapy techniques to elicit speech sound.

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners' performance of tasks.

Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.

Explains universal concepts of language structure to help students preparing to study a foreign language.

This edited volume presents narratives on a range of methods for research on second language teaching and learning appropriate to the elementary, middle, and high schools (K-12).

The ability to communicate quickly and flexibly through both spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race.

In this colourful illustrated storybook, part of the School Start series, children with language needs can explore the story of Rusty the Robber, and the night he got caught.

Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition.

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

In this 2003 book, Stephen C.

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

This Element explores the roles of explicit and implicit learning in second language acquisition.

This volume examines the role that culture plays in the acquisition of cognitive, linguistic, and social skills.

Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, The Handbook of Language Socialization is a unique reference work for an emerging and fast-moving field.

Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society, and as individuals.

This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it).

The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining developmental data with theory.

This state-of-the-science handbook offers a comprehensive discussion of input processing in second language acquisition.

A great deal has been written on how children learn to speak, but development of language comprehension has been a relatively neglected topic.

This book addresses how cross-linguistic interference is represented in the bilingual mind.

An in-depth investigation of constraints on error variables in grammar with special reference to bilingual misspelling orthographies.

The Bilingualism Reader is the definitive reader for the study of bilingualism.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity provides a clear and comprehensive survey of the field of language and identity from an applied linguistics perspective.

Sprachliche Heterogenität in der Schule sowie der lehr- und ausbildungspraktische Umgang mit ihr sind zu einem der wichtigsten Querschnittsthemen der Lehrkräftebildung avanciert.