Language acquisition

Gus loves to gulp yoghurt, but he is not the only one.

Das Buch Unterrichtseinheiten Französisch für die Praxis hilft Fremdsprachenlehrkräften den bildungspolitischen Anforderungen noch besser gerecht zu werden und dabei gleichzeitig hilfreichen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zu folgen.

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s.

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

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.

Originally published in 1977, this book considers the role language plays in psychological development.

The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects.

This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors' role in second language acquisition (SLA) through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups.

Rethinking Language Education in the Age of Generative AI bridges the gap between theory, research, and practice in AI and language education.

Metalinguistic Awareness and Second Language Acquisition is the first book to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistic awareness as it relates to SLA.

This book presents ecological perspectives towards early language education that conceptualise the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teachers' agency, peers' agency and parents' agency, consequently furthering insights into the lives of young children growing up in multilingual homes.

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners' performance of tasks.

Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time.

Groups together Japanese near-synonyms and provides clear information on their meaning and use, richly illustrated with authentic examples.

The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function.

This book makes a fresh contribution to the field of research ethics by considering research issues through relatable autobiographical narratives.

Innovative and interdisciplinary in approach, this book explores the role of the mother tongue in second language learning.

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

Society is becoming increasingly multi-lingual and this presents monolingual professionals, particularly those in special education and speech pathology, with severe problems.

For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general.

Wenn Kinder beginnen, sich ihre Welt durch Wörter anzueignen, machen auch die Erwachsenen neue Erfahrungen in ihrem eigenen Umgang mit Sprache und sich selbst.

This collection showcases cutting-edge developments in co-construction in discourse.

This state-of-the-art volume offers a comprehensive, accessible, and uniquely interdisciplinary examination of social factors' role in second language acquisition (SLA) through different theoretical paradigms, methodological traditions, populations, contexts, and language groups.

Shadowing is a theoretically and empirically well-examined method to develop L2 learners' listening comprehension (input effect); enhance their subvocal rehearsal mechanism in the phonological working memory for learning new words, formula, and constructions (practice effect); simulate some stages of speech production (output effect); and develop metacognitive monitoring and control by their executive working memory (monitoring effect).

This state-of-the-science handbook offers a comprehensive discussion of input processing in second language acquisition.

This Element is a guide to task-based language teaching (TBLT), for language instructors, teacher educators, and other interested parties.

This introduction to visualization techniques and statistical models for second language research focuses on three types of data (continuous, binary, and scalar), helping readers to understand regression models fully and to apply them in their work.

Is language somehow innate in the structure of the human brain, or is it completely learned?

Originally published in 1980.

Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners.

This handbook explores quantitative linguistics, pedagogy, and Mandarin language acquisition in an integrated fashion and helps readers grasp how insights from quantitative linguistics can shed light on Mandarin language acquisition.

Focuses for the first time on materials development and applications of current research and theory for the main areas of applied linguistics (e.

Study abroad (SA) as a domain of inquiry in the field of Applied Linguistics has been approached from a variety of different perspectives.

The third volume of Modern Cantonese aims to broaden learners' Cantonese language skills by teaching students how to deal with, discuss, persuade, and summarize topics related to sophisticated work-related situations.