Language acquisition

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

A guide on how to implement CLIL in the classroom to foster motivation, engagement and progress in language learning.

Written by two top vocabulary specialists, this updated edition gives a state-of-the-art introduction to vocabulary teaching and testing.

Explores how Gricean pragmatics can account for the language behaviour of speakers of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF).

If language learning is self-initiated and self-regulated, can anyone become native-like in a new language, or are special gifts necessary?

Offers an up-to-date analysis of issues related to providing, using and researching feedback, including new developments in technology.

The first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia.

Practice researched from different perspectives in a variety of contexts and second languages with implications for teaching and research.

Provides an accessible, comprehensive and practical introduction to current theory and research in second language writing and their classroom applications.

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

Explains universal concepts of language structure to help students preparing to study a foreign language.

A guide on how to implement CLIL in the classroom to foster motivation, engagement and progress in language learning.

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

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

Provides a comprehensive overview of third language acquisition (additive multilingualism) in adulthood, an increasingly important subfield of language acquisition.

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

A new model of bilingualism unifying psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics that explains how multiple factors interact within and across bilingual minds.

Offers an up-to-date analysis of issues related to providing, using and researching feedback, including new developments in technology.

Using empirical data, this volume explores the link between second language development and social integration of migrant school students.

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

Leading scholars in language policy examine the politics and policies of language in Canada and the United States.

A contemporary overview of recent theory, research, and practice of MALL which is immediately applicable to language teaching contexts.

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

This is a multi-disciplinary account of language repertoires of early multilingualism across continents, languages and contexts.

Presents an overview of research into variables that impact bilingual language acquisition, highlighting research outcomes from various disciplines.

Presents an overview of research into variables that impact bilingual language acquisition, highlighting research outcomes from various disciplines.

An extended argument that bilingual speakers have an integrated linguistic competence, rather than two separate grammatical systems.

An extended argument that bilingual speakers have an integrated linguistic competence, rather than two separate grammatical systems.

Explores the process of word selection in second language use and the factors which determine the writer''s choice of words.

Explores the process of word selection in second language use and the factors which determine the writer''s choice of words.

If language learning is self-initiated and self-regulated, can anyone become native-like in a new language, or are special gifts necessary?

Demonstrates that language awareness and discourse consciousness are key for critical thinking and communication in professional contexts.

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 connects SLA theory and practice in ways that are relevant and accessible to students, researchers and practitioners.

This is a multi-disciplinary account of language repertoires of early multilingualism across continents, languages and contexts.

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

Demonstrates that language awareness and discourse consciousness are key for critical thinking and communication in professional contexts.

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

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

Provides an accessible, comprehensive and practical introduction to current theory and research in second language writing and their classroom applications.

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

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

Explains universal concepts of language structure to help students preparing to study a foreign language.

Introduces the integration of theoretical and applied translation studies for socially-oriented and data-driven empirical translation research.

This book explores a much-debated area of language acquisition: the omission by young children of direct objects in a sentence.

This book explores a much-debated area of language acquisition: the omission by young children of direct objects in a sentence.