Language acquisition

This book offers a general introduction to reaction time research as relevant to Second Language Studies and explores a collection of tasks and paradigms that are often used in such research.

Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis is the only book on the market to provide a diverse collection of perspectives, from experienced researchers, on the role of the Critical Period Hypothesis in second language acquisition.

This Element connects phonetics knowledge and language teaching practice, informing effective teaching techniques and strategies.

This book provides educators (including but not limited to those at university level) with data-driven insights into video-mediated interaction.

This edited collection addresses the link between second language pragmatics (including interlanguage and intercultural) research and English language education.

This book explores the life and experiences of one of the world's most renowned and well-respected experts in bilingualism.

This book focuses on the role of cross-language awareness in foreign language learning, especially unrelated languages as a third or additional language.

This book offers a critical examination of second language (L2) learning outside institutional contexts, with a focus on the way second language learners introduce, close, and manage conversational topics in everyday settings.

This is the first book devoted to the effects of orthographic forms (spellings) on second language phonology.

Teaching through Peer Interaction prepares teachers to use peer communication in the classroom.

Effective language learning depends on effective instruction.

Originally published in 1979, this volume represented a unique attempt to connect the usually separated fields of infancy studies and studies of older children.

Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity brings together state-of-the-art studies in both typical and atypical language development.

Drawing on major research developments in the field, Vihman has updated and extensively revised the 1996 edition of her classic text to provide a thorough and stimulating overview of current studies of child production and perception and early word learning.

While there is much in the literature on ESL development, this book is the first of its kind to track the development of specific language abilities in an Intensive English Program (IEP) longitudinally and highlights the implications of this particular study's findings for future IEP implementation and practice and ESL and SLA research.

Zack just wants to find other bees that look like him - and he meets some interesting and different kinds of bees along the way.

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s.

This book investigates the efficacy of a teacher educator collaborating with rural Chinese teachers of English to activate agentic adoption of task-based language teaching (TBLT).

Infants learn to communicate through everyday social interaction with their caregivers in a multisensory world involving sight, hearing, touch and smell.

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.

Originally published in 1983, the aim of this book was to discuss some fundamental problems of cognitive developmental psychology at the time.

Lynn and Lily love licking lollipops, and lollies of all colours, shapes and sizes.

This book offers an in-depth explanation of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) and the methods necessary to implement it in the language classroom successfully.

The universalist view that acquisition of phonology is guided by universal principles has been the dominant position for decades.

This edited collection provides research-informed guidance on how reflexivity may be practised in applied linguistics research.

Advancing Quantitative Methods in Second Language Research is the first hands-on guide to conducting advanced research methods in the fields of applied linguistics and second language studies.

Presents an overview of research into variables that impact bilingual language acquisition, highlighting research outcomes from various disciplines.

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching.

This book is the first to summarize the voluminous literature on the development of cognitive, codification, language, and expressive/affective (CCCE) skills from a clinical standpoint.

Study Abroad in Korea prepares students for study in Korean by providing the reader with key expressions and guidance on certain aspects of culture and language idiosyncratic to Korea, focusing on everyday scenarios.

Foreigners often say that English language is "e;easy.

This book focuses on the early acquisition of signed languages and the later development of reading by children who use signed languages.

This book constitutes a timely contribution to the existing literature by presenting a relatively comprehensive, neurobiological account of certain aspects of second language acquisition.

This book focuses on the early acquisition of signed languages and the later development of reading by children who use signed languages.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening offers a state-of-the-art, systematic discussion of the role of listening in second language acquisition (SLA) and use.

Corpus Linguistics for Education provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the use of corpus research-methods in the field of education.

This volume represents the first collection of empirical studies focusing on peer interaction for L2 learning.

Originally published in 1982.

Malik Goes to School: Examining the Language Skills of African American Students From Preschool-5th Grade synthesizes a decade of research by the authors, Holly Craig and Julie Washington, on the oral language and literacy skills of African American children from preschool to fifth grade.