Language acquisition

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

A day at the seaside sounds magical to Sally, who brings her bucket and spade for a sandcastle making adventure.

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Stromqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "e;frog-story studies"e; book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994).

Das vorliegende Werk stellt sich anhand einer longitudinal angelegten Fallstudie einem Forschungsdesiderat: der mehrsprachigen Erwerbskonstellation Kurmancî-Kurdisch und Deutsch.

The latest title in the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series presents a comprehensive review of connectionist research in second language acquisition (SLA).

English as a Foreign Language in Saudi Arabia: New Insights into Teaching and Learning English offers a detailed discussion of key aspects of teaching and learning English in the Saudi context and offers a comprehensive overview of related research authored or co-authored by Saudi researchers.

This book uncovers the challenges posed by globalization to Asian jurisdictions in English language teaching and teacher education.

Speaking Out: Issues and Controversies ?

This state-of-the-art volume is the first to capture a hybrid discipline that studies the role and linguistic implications of the human mind in language learning and teaching.

This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages.

This module on computer assisted language learning provides novice and experienced second and foreign language (L2) teachers alike with an introduction to the field of computer assisted language learning (CALL).

Provides an accessible, comprehensive and practical introduction to current theory and research in second language writing and their classroom applications.

The first book-length treatment of its type, Ultimate Attainment in Second Language Acquisition is a case study with a solid theoretical grounding that examines the language of an immigrant learner of English, and thereby presents a much needed understanding of the linguistic competence of second language speakers.

Wie kann sprachliche Bildung und Mehrsprachigkeit in Kinder- und Familienzentren unterstützt werden?

On Reading Books to Children: Parents and Teachers brings together in one volume current research on adult book reading to children.

This book critically examines South Korean English teachers' awareness of and attitude towards eight varieties of English and how they respond to the proposal of a World Englishes approach in their teaching practice.

This book focuses on a particular type of formulaic expressions called Situation-Bound Utterances (SBUs).

Practical Grammar Teaching for the Second Language Classroom provides a well-rounded foundation for teaching second language (L2) grammar for pre-service, novice, and practicing teachers, as well as for teacher educators who seek to develop their professional knowledge and skills.

First published in 1986, this authoritative book contains a selection of original, research based, reports of studies conducted in Australia and New Zealand in the field of Child Development.

In this beautifully illustrated storybook, part of the School Start series, children with language needs can explore the story of Bozo the Clown as he tries to make a new friend.

First published in 1986.

This book connects SLA theory and practice in ways that are relevant and accessible to students, researchers and practitioners.

In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy.

At the heart of this volume is the recognition that children's engagement with play and story are intrinsically and intricately linked.

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

Textbook designed to help the student achieve optimal success as a language learner and user.

Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "e;Interlanguage"e; is a clear exception.

Originally published in 1982, the editors felt that their field was clearly in need of explanatory accounts for many different areas.

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.

This book offers an insightful description of the productive behavior of four-character schematic idiomatic expressions (SIEs) in Mandarin and explores from a usage-based perspective the issue of how young learners acquire the partial productivity of these expressions.

Childly Language explores how attitudes and cultural assumptions about children and childhood are revealed in contemporary English.

This book investigates selected aspects of the grammatical development of Emirati Arabic, the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates and closely related to the varieties spoken in the rest of the Gulf States.

Task-Based Instruction for Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language presents the most recent developments in the field of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and highlights impactful research-based instructional practices of applying TBLT for the teaching of Russian.

Volume I is the first of two volumes that document the three components of the CHILDES Project.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BOOKS BY THE MOTLEY FOOL"e;Staiger gives us the technical tools needed to build robust pro forma modeling around our real estate assets.

Addresses one debate in language development, namely the relationship between children's language development and their language experience.

This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child language acquisition, Melissa Bowerman.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pragmatics is a comprehensive critical survey of the field of L2 pragmatics, collecting a number of chapters that highlight the key theories, methods, pedagogies, and research findings throughout its development over the last four decades.

Anglophone students abroad: Identity, social relationships and language learning presents the findings of a major study of British students of French and Spanish undertaking residence abroad.

What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development?