Language acquisition

An incisive account of the relationship between language and identity, illuminating the role of language in racism, sexism, colonialism and similar social forces.

This book examines the fundamental interactional dimension to foreign language communication, including the establishment, development, consolidation and maintenance of interpersonal relations.

The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades.

Understanding how communicative goals impact and drive the learning process has been a long-standing issue in the field of language acquisition.

Second language assessment is ubiquitous.

The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood presents recent research on the nature of language acquisition by typically and atypically developing monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children.

This Element explores the roles of explicit and implicit learning in second language acquisition.

This comprehensive collection is the first full book-length volume to bring together writing focused around and inspired by the work of John Rickford and his role in sociolinguistic research over the last four decades.

Explores contemporary US television dialogue - the on-screen language that viewers worldwide encounter as they watch popular television series.

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.

Modern Chinese for Heritage Beginners aims to serve as a stepping-stone for Chinese heritage language learners' future Chinese learning, inspiring them to reflect on their identities, learn Chinese American history, and embrace their cultural heritage.

Pete and Jem are very helpful at the supermarket, but end up causing chaos with a tower of food on display.

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.

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.

Arabic L2 Interlanguage is a significant and timely addition to the field of Second Language Acquisition, providing valuable insight into the development of 'interlanguage', the interim language of early beginners, in learners of Arabic.

Originally published in 1983, the aim of this book was to discuss some fundamental problems of cognitive developmental psychology at the time.

This volume provides a state of the art overview of Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in university education and demonstrates how educators can use OIE to address current challenges in university contexts such as internationalisation, virtual mobility and intercultural foreign language education.

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

First published in 1982, Languages of South Asia covers all important languages and language groups of the so-called Indian subcontinent (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan).

One of the most active areas in the field of second language acquisition, language learning motivation is a burgeoning area of research.

This book opens up new lines of debate in language learning and intercultural communication through an investigation of tandem language learning (a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between native speakers and learners of each other's language) in connection with intercultural learning and identity construction.

Rethinking Autism with Dolto takes up a principal legacy of Francoise Dolto's immense project-her conviction that autism is a regression to the archaic.

Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition.

Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis is the only book on the market to provide a diverse collection of perspectives, from experienced researchers, on the role of the Critical Period Hypothesis in second language acquisition.

This book explores and analyses Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) pedagogic practices and learning experiences within a cohort of low socio-economic status students within an Australian primary classroom.

This is the first textbook to systematically compare first and second language acquisition drawing on data from several languages.

Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes.

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Practice is a recurring and popular theme in language education.

A book-length exploration of the role of online chat in supporting the teaching and learning of foreign languages is well overdue.

Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population.

Using current intervention research on grammatical properties, this textbook explores key concepts in second language acquisition.

This edited volume brings together studies that test the effectiveness of original version television for foreign language learning and the possible ways to enhance this learning process.

Teaching English to the World: History, Curriculum, and Practice is a unique collection of English language teaching (ELT) histories, curricula, and personal narratives from non-native speaker (NNS) English teachers around the world.

This book presents a nuanced look at the relationship between language learning styles and culture to illuminate how these important constructs are understood, employed and play out in the real world.

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues.

This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community in the mid-Atlantic South to offer a unique window into ethnic dialect formation and sociolinguistic processes underpinning dialect acquisition.

Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in the field.