Language acquisition

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).

A study of the language acquisition and transmission of Hindi, Spanish and Romanian as heritage languages in the United States.

This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind.

Lexical Processing and Second Language Acquisition provides a comprehensive overview of research on second language lexical processing, integrating converging research and perspectives from Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition.

Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research speaks to the rapidly growing area of second language writing by providing a uniquely balanced approach to L2 writing research.

This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children.

Fly is sneaky and very cheeky.

Philip Luelsdorff's highly original approach to the grammar of orthography is to analyse in detail how German pupils learn about written English.

Now in its second edition, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition continues to present a cohesive view of the different theoretical and pedagogical perspectives that comprise instructed second language acquisition (ISLA).

Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom is concerned with the nature of talk in multilingual classrooms.

The book investigates how machine translation (MT) provides opportunities and increases the willingness to communicate in a foreign language.

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between nature and nurture in cognitive and linguistic development, and their neurological substrates.

The aim of this volume is to highlight the benefits and potential of using learner corpora for the testing and assessment of L2 proficiency in both speaking and writing, reflecting the growing importance of learner corpora in applied linguistics and second language acquisition research.

This is a tale of two brothers, duelling to become a dragon drawing champion.

Offering unique coverage of an emerging, interdisciplinary area, this comprehensive handbook examines the theoretical underpinnings and emergent conceptions of intercultural mediation in related fields of study.

Este trabajo investiga la adquisición del sistema temporal-aspectual en español como segunda lengua/lengua extranjera desde una perspectiva múltiple.

This book sheds light on the array of transformative literacies in the Global South, which English language teachers and educators seek to integrate within their pedagogical practices.

This book presents an analysis of the difficulties faced by native speakers of English in the learning of Romance languages and in so doing proposes a comprehensive model of the acquisition of tense-aspect marking.

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.

Analysis of bilinguals'' use of two languages reveals highly adept code-switching: alternating between languages while keeping intact the separate grammars.

Originally published in 1924, this sixth edition published in 1930 is thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the important advances in the field of child psychology at the time.

This edited book comprises chapters integrated around a central theme on college-educated Japanese, Korean, and Chinese women's orientation to English study.

This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners.

Originally published in 1982.

Fully updated throughout, this new edition provides a comprehensive exploration of how children acquire a first language effectively.

Originally published in 1992.

This book addresses a wide range of aspects of the study of language in a variety of domains such as cognition, change, acquisition, structure, philosophy, politics, and education.

Foreigners often say that English language is "e;easy.

Research-Driven Pedagogy: Implications of L2A Theory and Research for the Teaching of Language Skills brings together the essentials of second language acquisition (SLA) theory, research, and second language (L2) pedagogy.

Teaching English covers all of the major issues and current trends in language learning and teaching, such as the trends toward empiricism, constructivism, differentiation, learner- and output-orientation, intercultural learning, and the use of multimedia.

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.

Polly the pig loves pink - but her friends do not.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian second language acquisition and pedagogy.

How children first acquire language is one of the central issues in linguistics.

Almost all low- and middle-income postcolonial countries now use English or another dominant language as the medium of instruction for some, if not all, of the basic education cycle.

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South.

What is the state of that which is not spoken?

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech.

Throughout its evolution, Piaget's theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing.

This cutting-edge volume explores how technological tools can be designed, engineered and implemented to assess and support individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders from diagnosis through to rehabilitation.