Language acquisition

Originally published in 1992.

Across the world, education is being restructured to include greater focus on developing critical and creative skills.

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

Research on spontaneous language acquisition both in children learning their mother tongue and in adults learning a second language has shown that language development proceeds in a stagewise manner.

This second edition of Ian Roberts's highly successful textbook on diachronic syntax has been fully revised and updated throughout to take account of the multiple developments in the field in the last decade.

This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context.

While there is much in the literature on ESL development, this book is the first of its kind to track the development of specific language abilities in an Intensive English Program (IEP) longitudinally and highlights the implications of this particular study's findings for future IEP implementation and practice and ESL and SLA research.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora is a state-of-the-art collection of cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of second language acquisition and learner corpus research.

Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.

How do children acquire language?

Das Buch versammelt wichtige Aspekte der neuen Erwerbsforschung und benachbarter Disziplinen sowie der Transkulturationstheorien und versucht, diese zu einem kohärenten Modell des Spracherwerbs zusammenzufügen, das auch für den Sprachunterricht relevant ist.

This book presents the learning and teaching of phonological decoding in Chinese EFL primary classrooms.

From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use.

This book provides an up-to-date account of blind children's developing communicative abilities with particular emphasis on social cognition and language acquisition from infancy to early school age.

This book provides an examination of the academic language found in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) primary-school written input, with a focus on the lexical demands of CLIL textbooks.

One of the central problems in the study of modern cognition is the degree to which higher cognition is modularized: that is, how much are higher functions carried out by domain-specific, specialized, cognitive subsystems, rather than a highly general cognitive learning and inferring device?

This Element investigates the seminal processes involved in humans acquiring additional languages later in life.

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

Psycholinguistics is an interdisciplinary field, and hence relationships are at its heart.

This book provides research-based insights that deepen and broaden current understandings of the nature of reading.

A comprehensive introduction to second language learning for newcomers to the field, with frequent summaries and supporting activities.

This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision, give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English.

This volume explores the instructional use of creative writing in secondary and post-secondary contexts to enhance students' language proficiency and expression in English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL).

This book gives fresh insight into the diverse ways in which the transmission of minority and heritage languages is carried out in a range of sociolinguistic contexts.

Although Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a popular teaching method, research on CLIL has nearly exclusively focused on aspects of language learning.

For many centuries scientists and philosophers have endeavoured to solve the baffling problem of human language.

A spirited and engaging linguistic and social re-imagination of the role and nature of clichés in communication and interaction.

The first comprehensive and accessible guide to the understanding and implementation of task-based language teaching.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.

This collection argues for the need to promote intercultural understanding as a clear goal for teaching and learning pragmatics in second and foreign language education.

This book explores how speech and language therapists can use a wide range of multi-modal therapy techniques to elicit speech sound.

This edited collection addresses the link between second language pragmatics (including interlanguage and intercultural) research and English language education.

In this volume, which simultaneously honors the career contributions of Jean Berko Gleason and provides an overview of a broad and increasingly important research area, a panel of highly productive language researchers share and evaluate methods of eliciting and analyzing language production across the life span and in varying populations.

Understanding how people learn and fail to learn second and foreign languages is increasingly recognised as a critical social and psycholinguistic issue.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics provides a comprehensive discussion of a wide range of neurocognitive and neurobiological scientific research about learning second or additional languages.