Language acquisition

Sound and speak like a native.

Collins Easy Learning Verbs is an accessible introduction to English verbs, tenses and morphology.

This major new edition of the Collins COBUILD English Grammar is a modern, global and learner-focussed grammar reference, aimed at learners and teachers of English.

The market's most indispensable phrasebook and dictionary has been reinvented for ereaders and is better than ever.

The Collins COBUILD Active English Grammar offers intermediate learners of English a quick and easy-to-use reference guide to the most important points in English Grammar.

The plain guide to the most commonly used foreign words in the English language from the world word bank.

This guide to Scots is a perfect buy for anyone who is intrigued by the expressive Scots language.

Gain an insight into the English language, via one of the UK's richest dialects: Geordie.

A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.

An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.

An in-depth biography of the Latin language from its very beginnings to the present day from the widely acclaimed author of 'Empires of the Word'.

'Fascinating.

This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.

We narrate everything.

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

Written by a team of leading experts working in different second language acquisition (SLA) specialisms, this fifth edition is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of SLA from multiple perspectives, comprehensively updated to reflect the latest developments in SLA research.

Written by a team of leading experts working in different second language acquisition (SLA) specialisms, this fifth edition is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of SLA from multiple perspectives, comprehensively updated to reflect the latest developments in SLA research.