Language acquisition

The new edition of Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition defines the key terminology within second language acquisition, and also provides accessible summaries of the key issues within this complex area of study.

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).

A Hybrid Approach to Teaching Chinese through Digital Humanities, CALL, and Project-Based Learning presents an exposition of current thinking, research, and best practices in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Digital Humanities (DH), and Project-Based Language Learning (PBLL) in the context of teaching Chinese as a foreign language (TCFL).

Content-Based Teaching of Russian as a Foreign Language explores how content-based instruction can be applied in the teaching of Russian as an additional or heritage language.

'Marvellously clear.

"e;I can't even speak my own language,"e; were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book.

"e;I can't even speak my own language,"e; were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book.

Over the last decade task-based approaches to language learning and teaching (TBLT) have become a global focus of increased levels of research.

Over the last decade task-based approaches to language learning and teaching (TBLT) have become a global focus of increased levels of research.

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts.

Second Language Identities examines how identity is an issue in different second language learning contexts.

Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning provides theoretical rationales for, and empirical studies of, the effects of sequencing language learning tasks to maximize second language learning.

This book develops the concept of 'writtenness' (historically-formed stylistic and aesthetic values within writing) to highlight the demands, taken-for-granted ideals, institutional frictions, and changing circumstances of academic writing in English in the contemporary international university.

Effective language learning depends on effective instruction.

This book develops the concept of 'writtenness' (historically-formed stylistic and aesthetic values within writing) to highlight the demands, taken-for-granted ideals, institutional frictions, and changing circumstances of academic writing in English in the contemporary international university.

This book examines current advances in the role of interactional feedback in second language (L2) teaching and learning.

Effective language learning depends on effective instruction.

This book examines current advances in the role of interactional feedback in second language (L2) teaching and learning.

This book will give you the skills to learn to speak any language with confidence.

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.

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

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues.

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues.

Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition With its cornucopia of information, both thorough and practical, this book is a must for our methodology shelves.

Research Methods in Second Language Acquisition With its cornucopia of information, both thorough and practical, this book is a must for our methodology shelves.

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development.

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development.

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.

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.

Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in the field.

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years.

Bloomsbury Companion To Second Language Acquisition, this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics.

Language learning research aims to describe and fully explain how and why language learning takes place, but can fall short of its stated purpose.