Language acquisition

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

For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism.

The Routledge Handbook of Korean as a Second Language aims to define the field and to present the latest research in Korean as a second language (KSL).

Second language assessment is ubiquitous.

Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour.

"e;I can't even speak my own language,"e; were the words overheard in a college staffroom that triggered the writing of this book.

A reader-friendly publication on teaching modern languages to adolescents, which draws on theory as well as examples from real classrooms.

A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled Polysemy), and cognitive approaches to grammar (such as Radical Construction Grammar and Embodied Construction Grammar).

First published in 1816 and revised in 1916, this edition of George Crabb's English Synonyms contains the entirety of his most enduring work.

This book encourages readers to think about reading not only as an encounter with written language, but as a lifelong habit of engagement with ideas.

This innovative work highlights interdisciplinary research on phonetics and phonology across multiple languages, building on the extensive body of work of Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk on the study of sound structure and speech.

Originally published in 1939, it was only recently that serious study and attention had been given to disorders of speech and there was a growing demand for books dealing with the subject.

How does human language work?

Originally published in 1982.

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

Assessing Learners' Competence in L2 Chinese is the first book intended to answer the question on whether existing standardised and classroom-based assessments can reflect learners' competence in L2 Chinese.

This book examines grammatical changes that took place in the medieval language contact situation between English and French from 1066 until 1500.

The papers in this volume offer a sampling of contemporary efforts to update the portrayal of study abroad in the applied linguistics literature through attention to its social and cultural aspects.

This ground breaking research explores language maintenance and shift focusing on a school community.

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.

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

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

This unique, edited book bridges studies in language disorders and linguistic theory with timely contributions from leading scholars in language development.

El español empezó a enseñarse en China a partir de los años cincuenta del siglo xx.

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning synthesizes the existing body of research on the role of peer interaction in second language learning in one comprehensive volume.

The Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Pedagogy is the first reference of its kind, presenting contributions from leading experts in the field of sign language pedagogy.

Explores English grammar through three real-world applications of language development, language disorders and dialects.

This volume introduces the study of language attrition--the forgetting of language.

Academic vocabulary is in fashion, as witnessed by the increasing number of books published on the topic.

This book examines the relationship between human language and biology in order to determine whether the biological foundations of language can offer deep insights into the nature and form of language and linguistic cognition.

This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA).

Lynn and Lily love licking lollipops, and lollies of all colours, shapes and sizes.

Noodle loves to jump in muddy puddles, and his friends don't understand.

‘Think globally, act locally’ is the message of Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges.

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.

Ever since attempts were made to describe and explain normal language development, references to exceptional circumstances have been made.

Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning.

The Routledge Handbook of English Language Teacher Education provides an accessible, authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date resource of English language teacher education.

This new text consists of parts of Bornstein and Lamb's Developmental Science, 6th edition along with new introductory material that as a whole provides a cutting edge and comprehensive overview of cognitive development.

This book sheds light on the array of transformative literacies in the Global South, which English language teachers and educators seek to integrate within their pedagogical practices.

The past decade has brought important new advances in the fields of genetics, behavioral genetics, linguistics, language acquisition, studies of language impairment, and brain imaging.