Language acquisition

The acquisition of language is one of the most remarkable human achievements.

Das vorliegende Buch soll Hilfen geben, wie bei Lernenden mehr Gesprächsfähigkeit und -bereitschaft entwickelt werden kann und welche Wege und Möglichkeiten es gibt, im Unterricht verstärkt Gespräche zu führen und zu initiieren.

How do children acquire language?

An authoritative state-of-the-art survey of the field of Spanish linguistics, with an in-depth examination of the broad research domains.

This fourth edition of the best-selling Theories in Second Language Acquisition surveys the major theories and frameworks currently used in second language acquisition (SLA) research, serving as an ideal introductory text for graduate students in SLA and language teaching.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the latest research at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive psychology, and applied linguistics, for those seeking to understand the mental architecture and processes that shape the acquisition of additional languages.

The new edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on stress and health, moving beyond the former deficit model to a resource growth model.

This is the first book to bring together four distinct literatures--functional linguistics, child language, narrative development, and discursive psychology.

Deaf People and Society is an authoritative text that emphasizes the complexities of being D/deaf, DeafBlind, Deaf-Disabled, or hard of hearing, drawing on perspectives from psychology, education, and sociology.

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.

Designed to provide practical information to those who are concerned with the development of young children, this book has three goals.

An evidence-based review of the central issues in language acquisition research.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition.

The book provides a systematic investigation of the dynamic trajectories in the oral language development of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners, integrating both inter-individual variation and intra-individual variability.

Corpus Applications in Language Teaching and Research: The Case of Data-Driven Learning of German provides a historical overview of corpus applications in language teaching with a focus on German.

This book explores the nature of finiteness, one of most commonly used notions in descriptive and theoretical linguistics but possibly one of the least understood.

This book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theory by revisiting and challenging the traditional assumptions that underlie it, based on cross-linguistic language data that cover a range of syntactic and phonological phenomena.

Since it was first established in the 1970s the Applied Linguistics and Language Study series has become a major force in the study of practical problems in human communication and language education.

Reflective Language Teaching: Practical Applications for TESOL Teachers is an extensively revised and updated second edition of the popular and accessible text Reflective Language Teaching: From Research to Practice originally published in 2008.

This new interpretation of the early history of Chinese argues that Old Chinese was typologically a 'mixed' language.

From the perspective of empirical complex dynamic systems, this book investigates the complex and nonlinear process of L2 writing centering on three linguistic aspects of L2 writing development: vocabulary, syntax, and discourse.

The metalinguistic dimension refers to the way in which learners bring to bear knowledge about language into their learning of a second language, the "L2".

Children learn a great deal from other people, including history, science and religion, as well as language itself.

This successful textbook on the psychology of communication explains - here in English for the first time - how human communication works in a very understandable way.

Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable.

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

This textbook approaches second language acquisition from the perspective of generative linguistics.

This volume investigates the implications of the study of populations other than educated, middle-class, normal children and languages other than English on a universal theory of language acquisition.

In the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of languages, scripts, and contexts.

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

Literacy teaching tends to take a structural approach to language, focusing on auditory products or skills such as sounds, morphemes, words, sentences, and vocabulary.

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project.