Language acquisition

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition is the first collection of state-of-the-art papers pertaining to Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA).

Past studies of family language socialization often focus on children's verbal communication skills and are conducted from the parents' perspective.

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research provides students and researchers interested in language acquisition with comprehensible and practical information on the most frequently used methods in language acquisition research.

This Element provides an overview of research focusing on language teaching practices for young multilingual learners in English-speaking primary classrooms.

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education.

*Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award*Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning.

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes.

The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena.

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues.

With more than 50 years of teaching experience between them, Ilse Depraetere and Chad Langford present a grammar pitched precisely at advanced learners of English who need to understand how the English language really works without getting lost in the complex specifics.

The National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE) published electronic issues of Volumes 1 and 2 of the NABE Journal of Research and Practice to offer archival records of 2002 and 2003 NABE conferences presentations.

Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.

Current approaches to treating stuttering do not reflect the new understanding of its nature which has emerged from recent studies.

The Classic Edition of this foundational text includes a new preface from Miguel Perez-Pereira, examining how the field has developed since first publication.

This volume is a festschrift for Katherine Nelson, an NYU professor who was a pioneer in infant perception and memory.

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).

This book integrates culture and authenticity into Chinese classroom practice through exploring the potential of contemporary TV drama as teaching and learning materials for intercultural Chinese language teaching and learning.

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 is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood.

Im Fokus des Sammelbandes stehen Studienfachangebote für Deutsch als Zweitsprache (DaZ) für (angehende) Lehrer:innen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz.

This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities.

This book provides an up-to-date snapshot of recent research and developments in the use of corpora for language learning and teaching.

Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds has added to our understanding of the mechanisms and stages of syntactic development and priming.

Including illustrative real-life case studies, this book draws on empirical data to explore how silence can be embraced in teaching.

The workshop Production-Comprehension Asymmetries in Child Language held in Osnabruck in 2009 is the starting point for this book.

A truly comprehensive survey of bilingualism, examining the learning, use, and unlearning of two or more languages across the lifespan.

Practical Grammar Teaching for the Second Language Classroom provides a well-rounded foundation for teaching second language (L2) grammar for pre-service, novice, and practicing teachers, as well as for teacher educators who seek to develop their professional knowledge and skills.

Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning provides a comprehensive overview of what is currently known about prior language knowledge and experience in second language learning.

Talking the Talk provides a comprehensive introduction to the psychology of language, written for the reader with no background in the field or any prior knowledge of psychology.

Archie has stolen Charlie's prize hat - the race is on to get it back.

This volume introduces pedagogical approaches and empirical studies that emphasize deeper, embodied engagement with language, the transformative potential of the language learning experience, and the importance of learner and teacher well-being.

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.