Language acquisition

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 volume provides a systematic comparative treatment of urban contact dialects in the Global North and South, examining the emergence and development of these dialects in major cities in sub-Saharan Africa and North-Western Europe.

Dies ist ein Buch über das was zählt, wenn man Verantwortung trägt für das Fortkommen seiner Schüler: klare Leitsätze und gescheite Lehrtechniken, die Schüler ebenso bei der Arbeit wie bei Laune halten.

This comprehensive, forward-looking text is the first holistic research overview and practical methods guide for researching the role that affective and conative factors play in second language learners' task performance and language acquisition.

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.

Chan's exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter and posits ways to help them overcome those challenges.

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

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

This handbook provides innovative and comprehensive coverage of research on the second language acquisition (SLA) of morphosyntax, semantics, and the interface between the two.

On-line information -- and free text in particular -- has emerged as a major, yet unexploited, resource available in raw form.

Archie has stolen Charlie's prize hat - the race is on to get it back.

Asher the thresher shark is very shy.

This handbook provides a critical guide to the most central proposition in modern linguistics: the notion, generally known as Universal Grammar, that a universal set of structural principles underlies the grammatical diversity of the world's languages.

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

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields.

Translation as a Cognitive Activity provides an overarching account of translation as a cognitive activity, from the pioneering use of think-aloud protocols as a sole technique used to investigate the translation process in the mid-1980s to the latest developments in the field.

This concise guide offers an accessible introduction to the development of communication and language in infancy and childhood.

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the complex specifics.

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development.

This practical guide to doing classroom discourse research provides a comprehensive overview of the research process.

Die kognitive Linguistik behandelt linguistische Phänomene wie die Grammatik nicht nur unter formalen Aspekten, sondern im Hinblick auf allgemeine kognitive, perzeptive und körperliche Fähigkeiten des Menschen.

The Routledge Handbook of Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Development is the first comprehensive overview of the field of sociocultural second language acquisition (SLA).

The chapters in this volume provide the first comprehensive overview of trends in research on early phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development in children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously.

Debates in Second Language Education provides an up-to-date account of the key debates and areas of controversy in the field of second language learning and teaching.

The companion text to A Communicative Grammar of English (CGE), this workbook presents an opportunity for practising the points raised in the main grammar.

Asher the thresher shark is very shy.

This module on the nature of language aims to provide the novice and even experienced teacher with a broad and accessible picture of language as a formal system.

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates.

Communication and language disorders are often considered from one particular point of view - either psychological or neurological.

The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign language (SFL) writing.

Challenging existing lexical-semantic accounts, this book presents a compositional approach to the concept of factivity and its acquisition.

Understanding Formulaic Language: A Second Language Acquisition Perspective brings together leading scholars to provide a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary account of the acquisition, processing, and use of formulaic language.

Dieses Handbuch liefert einen Überblick über Beschaffenheit und soziolinguistische Situation des Deutschen am Rande des geschlossenen deutschen Sprachgebietes in West- und Mitteleuropa.

How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages?

In the beginning, before there are words, or syntax, or discourse, there is speech.

Communication in Autism adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore one of the most common developmental disorders associated with communication impairment.