Language acquisition

This book outlines best practice and effective strategies for teaching English as a foreign language to D/deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) students.

Molly mouse wakes to find her Mummy has vanished, so she sets off to find her - meeting some interesting creatures along the way.

Teaching Literature in the World Language Classroom presents a five-stage methodology for teaching literature in language curriculum that repurposes Bloom's original and revised taxonomy to promote the language acquisition process and spark other types of learning.

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.

This book tackles three choices that face developers of L2 writing assessments: defining L2 writing abilities; collecting evidence of those abilities (usually by getting L2 writers to write something); and judging their performance (usually by assigning a score or grade to it).

An innovative exploration of the interface between grammar, meaning and form.

By examining the acquisition of Spanish in combination with languages other than English (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Nahuatl, Quechua, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish), this volume advances novel data pertinent to the field's understanding of acquisition of Spanish in the XXI century.

This book studies the origins of language.

This book explores the concept of disfluency in speech production, particularly as it occurs in the context of second language acquisition.

Vinnie loves to dive in water, but it always makes him so cold!

Das Buch fokussiert das Thema Sprache als Herausforderung in allen Fächern und versucht Wege zu zeigen, wie das fachliche und sprachliche Lernen in jedem Unterricht miteinander effektiv verknüpft werden können.

This collection is a comprehensive resource on the state of second language vocabulary learning today, building on earlier studies to spotlight the diversity of issues and foci in the field toward encouraging further advancements in both research and practice.

Growing out of an International Society of the Study of Behavioral Development-sponsored symposium, this book discusses the basic assumptions that led the contributors to conduct research in the field of narrative development.

Presents an account of social and embodied threads of early narrative development, of which gesture is an integral part.

By adopting a historical perspective, this edited collection of papers takes a fresh look at a key concept in applied linguistics, that of innovation.

This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature overview of research articles analyzing the importance of ESL/EFL vocabulary and corpus studies.

This volume provides an integrative review of the emerging and increasing use of network science techniques in cognitive psychology, first developed in mathematics, computer science, sociology, and physics.

How do teachers inspire students to learn to appreciate different Englishes?

Under the Universal Grammar (UG) framework, this book discusses the latest research on the role of L1 bidialectism in L2 acquisition, with a particular focus on early Chinese(L1)-English(L2) learners.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

This book examines current advances in the role of interactional feedback in second language (L2) teaching and learning.

Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years.

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.

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun at the zoo, but they both want to see different animals, and are pulling their mother in different directions!

Examines the early linguistic development of children bilingual in English and Cantonese.

Examines the early linguistic development of children bilingual in English and Cantonese.

Designed for students of applied linguistics and second language acquisition on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is a set or recommended textbook on more than a hundred undergraduate and postgraduate courses worldwide.

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

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.

The vast majority of work in theoretical linguistics from a generative perspective is based on first language acquisition and performance.

Now in its second edition, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, and researchers.

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching.

During the last 10 years, more and more linguistic and psycholinguistic research has been devoted to the study of discourse and written texts.