Language acquisition

Lynn and Lily love licking lollipops, and lollies of all colours, shapes and sizes.

This comprehensive collection equips readers with a state-of-the-art description of clinical phonetics and a practical guide on how to employ phonetic techniques in disordered speech analysis.

Originally published in 1970, parents and teachers were beginning to realise how very much earlier in life human intelligence develops than was previously thought.

Explicit Learning in the L2 Classroom offers a unique five-prong (theoretical, empirical, methodological, pedagogical, and model building) approach to the issue of explicit learning in the L2 classroom from a student-centered perspective.

The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena.

Compared with other subdisciplines in Chinese linguistics, children's language acquisition is a significant field with relatively limited achievements.

Studies on L2 writing tasks with child learners have broken through several barriers in the past few years.

‘Think globally, act locally’ is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges.

This innovative text presents an introduction to different facets of building and leading language education programs at the university level to meet the needs of students who are minority speakers of a heritage language (HL) - also known as community or home languages.

This book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas.

Incidental language acquisition is the language that is learned informally, outside the constraints of the typical classroom, and vocabulary is one of the key elements in language learning and knowledge.

Now in a revised and updated second edition, Early Visual Skills is a practical manual for use with children and young people who have underdeveloped visual perceptual skills.

A Design Orientation to Second Language Writing Instruction presents the principles of a Design orientation to second language writing and argues for new directions in second language writing instruction.

Two decades ago, Mandarin Chinese seemed set to become a mainstream school subject in Anglophone settings.

It is intriguing and challenging to learn a language by diving into the worlds of Virtual Reality (3-D environments, avatars, games) and Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, agents).

Shunning polemicism and fashioning a new agenda for a critically informed yet practically orientated approach, this book explores aspects of multilingual education in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

A one-stop guide providing up-to-date coverage of the central aspects of second language acquisition (SLA).

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is the first reference work of its kind.

The Routledge Handbook of Study Abroad Research and Practice is an authoritative overview of study abroad and immersive context research specifically situated within applied linguistics and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) for graduate students and researchers in these fields.

Speech Bubbles 1 is the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists, parents/caregivers, and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development, children receiving speech therapy, or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children.

This series, Children's Language, reflects the conviction that extensive work on entirely new fronts along with a great deal of reinterpretation of old-front data will be necessary before any persuasive and truly orderly account of language development can be assembled.

Originally published in 1988.

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (such as Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar).

Drawing on ethnographical evidence, this book examines the complexity of the controversial construct "e;Non-Native English-Speaking Teacher"e; (NNEST) and the newly proposed "e;translingual/translanguaging teacher"e; in re-scripting their identities.

The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal communication of nonhuman primates.

Intensification plays a major role in spoken and written interaction, enabling the writer or speaker to express different levels of commitment.

This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase levels of analysis.

Roman Jakobson's writings range over the entire field of general linguistics, as well as embracing Slavic linguistics and literature theory.

Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason.

A growing body of literature is suggesting that many children with language disorders and delays--even those with so-called specific language impairment--have difficulties in other domains as well.

This book offers educators practical strategies to cultivate agency in both teachers and learners.

Shadowing is a theoretically and empirically well-examined method to develop L2 learners' listening comprehension (input effect); enhance their subvocal rehearsal mechanism in the phonological working memory for learning new words, formula, and constructions (practice effect); simulate some stages of speech production (output effect); and develop metacognitive monitoring and control by their executive working memory (monitoring effect).

Fangfei Li investigates L2 international students' engagement with teacher feedback in the UK higher education system.

Originally published in 1976.

This book develops the concept of 'writtenness' (historically-formed stylistic and aesthetic values within writing) to highlight the demands, taken-for-granted ideals, institutional frictions, and changing circumstances of academic writing in English in the contemporary international university.

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics.

Das Buch wendet sich in seiner interdisziplinären Ausrichtung an alle Berufsgruppen, die im früh- und grundschulpädagogischen Bereich mit Kindern interagieren und kommunizieren, sie begleiten und fördern, sowie an Eltern und weitere Interessenten.