Language acquisition

Bilder, die eine Geschichte erzählen, werden in verschiedenen Kontexten als Erzählanlässe genutzt, z.

Der didaktische Wert von Picturebooks fur den Englischunterricht in der Grundschule gilt als unumstritten.

Using neurolinguistic analysis and innovative research methods, this book explores the fascinating differences between Chinese and English relative clauses, revealing insights into language processing across cultures.

The study of informal involvement with additional languages has recently emerged as a dynamic research field in SLA.

Grounded in analysis of Chinese and international educational concepts and classroom techniques currently used to teach Chinese as a Second Language, and a thorough review of recent research in the field, this volume identifies the learning challenges of the language for native English speakers.

Originally published in 1937.

Comprehensive and evidence-based, this book presents the best practices for designing and sustaining study abroad programs to maximize the outcomes and benefits of education abroad for all students.

Relational Frame Theory: What is it?

Now in its third edition, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition continues to present a structured, comprehensive introduction to ISLA's theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical themes, as well as a range of key issues in research and practice.

This edited volume presents the latest scholarly endeavors to synergize Chinese linguistics with Chinese language education and L2 Chinese acquisition, a direction of inquiry that has emerged as a rapidly developing area and attracted both teaching practitioners and linguists' interests in recent years.

Critical Thinking provides language teachers with a dynamic framework for encouraging critical thinking skills in explicit, systematic ways during their lessons.

Although there is an extensive literature on the teaching of English as a Second or Other Language, there is very little published research on the teaching or learning of Chinese in similar contexts.

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research.

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

The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account.

This volume contributes to the development and advancement of TBLT as a research domain by investigating the intersection between tasks and technology from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.

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

Comprehensive and evidence-based, this book presents the best practices for designing and sustaining study abroad programs to maximize the outcomes and benefits of education abroad for all students.

This collection of original studies examines the cognitive processes and the fundamental mechanisms underlying adult second language acquisition.

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied.

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

The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.

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

Despite the key role played by second language acquisition (SLA) courses in linguistics, teacher education and language teaching degrees, participants often struggle to bridge the gap between SLA theories and their many applications in the classroom.

The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of language impairment, and brain imaging.

Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.

This book presents the learning and teaching of phonological decoding in Chinese EFL primary classrooms.

An updated and extended version of this authoritative one-stop resource for the study of language acquisition and development.

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching.

Each child is spoken to by genetic heritage and by the rich current set of interactional environments -- familial, local community, and broader cultural voices.

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

This book covers crucial knowledge and skill sets for developing language tests and setting assessments.

This book describes a new approach to teaching foreign languages for primary and secondary school that shifts the attention from learning the language to communicate skillfully in the foreign language.

The Diagnosis of Reading in a Second or Foreign Language explores the implications of language assessment research on classroom-based assessment practices by providing an in-depth look at the little-examined field of diagnosis in second and foreign language reading.

This book presents new work on the psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of compound words.

Dealing specifically with the origins and development of human language, this book is based on a selection of materials from a recent international conference held at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld in Germany.

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