Language acquisition

This innovative text presents an introduction to different facets of building and leading language education programs at the university level to meet the needs of students who are minority speakers of a heritage language (HL) - also known as community or home languages.

''Native speakers'' and ''native users'' are playing the same game, sharing, as they do, the model of the Standard Language.

A book on those who know and use two or more languages: Who are they?

This is the latest addition to a group of handbooks covering the field of morphology, alongside The Oxford Handbook of Case (2008), The Oxford Handbook of Compounding (2009), and The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology (2014).

The four articles in this issue represent recent developments in the study of basic processes in L2 reading at the primary level.

The relationship between the individual and the community is at the core of sociolinguistic theorizing.

Writing Using Sources for Academic Purposes: Theory, Research and Practice provides research-based information about key components of source-based writing, and the challenges it presents for novices.

Bilingualism provides a concise and lively introduction to bilingualism as a social and linguistic phenomenon and explains its impact on individuals and on society.

This volume provides a systematic comparative treatment of urban contact dialects in the Global North and South, examining the emergence and development of these dialects in major cities in sub-Saharan Africa and North-Western Europe.

Evidence-Based Second Language Pedagogy is a cutting-edge collection of empirical research conducted by top scholars focusing on instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) and offering a direct contribution to second language pedagogy by closing the gap between research and practice.

In this colourful illustrated storybook, part of the School Start series, children with language needs can explore the story of Rusty the Robber, and the night he got caught.

Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook is a collection of pedagogical narratives that promotes impactful approaches to teaching Russian as a Foreign Language (RFL) when supplementing or going beyond a specific textbook.

Butler and Huang's book is one of the first to focus on second language (L2) development research methods and techniques specifically targeted at children of primary and pre-primary years.

This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations.

The study of language acquisition has taken on new meaning in the last decade.

This book focuses on literature and cinema in English or French by authors and directors not working in their native language.

This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition.

This engaging and accessible book explains the incredible mastery of language by young children.

Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning: Quantitative Methods and Outcomes provides a how-to guide to choosing, using, and understanding quantitative longitudinal research and sampling methods in second and foreign language learning.

This book sheds new light on the form and function of morphemes in construction of words in the Bengali language.

Down the Slide, part of the 'Words Together' series, has been created to support children to understand and use two-word sentences.

Multiliteracies in International Educational Contexts: Towards Education Justice examines how multiliteracies and Learning by Design have been taken up across international second-language instructional contexts, with a focus on inclusive practices and social justice.

This book examines one of the allegedly unique features of human language: structure sensitivity.

Teaching English covers all of the major issues and current trends in language learning and teaching, such as the trends toward empiricism, constructivism, differentiation, learner- and output-orientation, intercultural learning, and the use of multimedia.

The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers.

Teaching English to the World: History, Curriculum, and Practice is a unique collection of English language teaching (ELT) histories, curricula, and personal narratives from non-native speaker (NNS) English teachers around the world.

This edited collection provides research-informed guidance on how reflexivity may be practised in applied linguistics research.

Task Sequencing and Instructed Second Language Learning provides theoretical rationales for, and empirical studies of, the effects of sequencing language learning tasks to maximize second language learning.

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

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability.

A comprehensive survey of cutting-edge work on second language learning covering linguistic, psycholinguistic, processing-based, and cognitive approaches.

This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching.

As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed languages (i.

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.

This book presents a study of the development of time reference in young children acquiring Inuktitut as a first language.

In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking.

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Stromqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "e;frog-story studies"e; book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994).

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition.

Extensive Reading is an innovative resource bridging theory and practice for those seeking to learn about extensive reading (ER) for L2 students' language development, including ways to motivate students to read extensively and to assess learning.

This book provides explanations for the emergence of contact languages, especially pidgins and creoles.

Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition features contributions from the field's leading scientists, and covers recent developments and current issues in the study of cognitive and neural mechanisms that take patterns of air vibrations and turn them 'magically' into meaning.