Language acquisition

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

This volume provides a unique overview of the complete histories of Latin and Greek as second languages.

A study of how children acquire language and how this affects language change over generations.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research and developments on the use of learner corpora perceived from developmental and crosslinguistic perspectives.

This ground breaking research explores language maintenance and shift focusing on a school community.

Speech Bubbles 2 is the second set in a series of picture books designed to be used by those working with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development, children receiving speech therapy or those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for children.

Using empirical data, this volume explores the link between second language development and social integration of migrant school students.

This innovative collection is the first of its kind to showcase global perspectives on learning minority languages as second languages, offering unique insights into their acquisition and specific characteristics and raising greater awareness around other languages and contexts where SLA occurs.

First published in 1937, this book supplies a history of the living growth of the English language from Old English to the medieval period.

This book reports in detail the newly developed Communicative Listening Comprehension Test (CLCT) for the National College English Test (CET) of China.

One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience.

Relabeling is a process that assigns a lexical entry of language-x a new label derived from a phonetic string drawn from language-y.

This book contributes to the field of L2 writing, with a focus on instruction in revision.

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.

An essential companion for IELTS writing instructors and students, Developing Writing Skills for IELTS provides IELTS test-takers with the necessary skills to succeed in the two academic writing tasks in IELTS.

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

This book opens up new lines of debate in language learning and intercultural communication through an investigation of tandem language learning (a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between native speakers and learners of each other's language) in connection with intercultural learning and identity construction.

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing.

Cognitive Task Complexity and Second Language Performance provides an overview of research focusing on the effects of cognitive task complexity (CTC) on second language (L2) performance.

Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned.

First published in 1987.

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use.

An international team of experts provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of working memory and language in this Handbook.

Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour.

Why has English language proficiency in Japan remained so low in comparison to other Asian countries?

This book addresses a wide range of aspects of the study of language in a variety of domains such as cognition, change, acquisition, structure, philosophy, politics, and education.

In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume's authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition from L3/Ln acquisition is essential.

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

This authoritative 2003 textbook provides a linguistic perspective on second language acquisition.

Will sits and watches the world go by, feeling all alone.

Lucas the Monkey loves to play soccer by the river, but he has a problem - Mr.

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.

This edited collection explores the scholarly and pedagogical implementations of Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in world language education.

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species.

This edited volume documents the state of the art in research into how the age factor interacts with other factors in a variety of educational contexts.

This book addresses one of the most famous and controversial arguments in the study of language and mind, the Poverty of the Stimulus.

The German comparative philologist Friedrich Max Muller (1823-1900) was one of the most influential scholars in Victorian Britain.

This volume brings together ten contributions to the study of untutored (mainly) second but also first language acquisition.

This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition.

Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language.