Language acquisition

This edited volume offers an insightful theoretical conceptualization of issues central to 21st century foreign language learning and teaching.

Winner of the 2011 Kenneth W.

This book focuses on Portuguese as an additional language and its young learners in threecase studies within the Portuguese-speaking world: Portuguese as a second language inCape Verde, Portuguese as a heritage language in Switzerland and Portuguese as a foreignlanguage in Macao SAR.

This edited volume explores studying second languages abroad by critically and constructively reviewing established programming, providing theoretical and research-informed support for pedagogical and curriculum interventions, and analysing participant experiences.

This book focuses on Japanese science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) students and their experiences of learning English.

This volume encompasses the range of research questions on language-related problems that arise in language teaching, learning and assessment.

This book offers a novel framework for describing and understanding student identity via the central concept of "e;genre practices"e;, developed through an empirical focus on multimodality within the genre of English as a medium of instruction (EMI) undergraduate presentations.

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 provides a critical analysis and account of the development of the Comprehension Approach as a method for language learning.

This book fills the gap in World Englishes studies in terms of the pedagogic implication of China English and its use in the Chinese workplace.

This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.

This book is the first edited book to cover a wide range of issues related to Chinese as a second language (CSL) speech, including tone and segment acquisition and processing, categorical perception of tones, CSL fluency, CSL intelligibility/comprehensibility and accentedness, and pronunciation pedagogy.

Drawing on experiences of ESOL teachers from around the world, this book provides insights into how peer learning is understood and used in real language classrooms.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

Drawing on experiences of ESOL teachers from around the world, this book provides insights into how peer learning is understood and used in real language classrooms.

The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign language (SFL) writing.

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

Written in a clear, approachable way, this is an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to phonetics, ideal for beginners.

The Diagnosis of Writing in a Second or Foreign Language is a comprehensive survey of diagnostic assessment of second/foreign language (SFL) writing.

The Learning and Teaching of Cantonese as a Second Language brings together contributions on such issues as Cantonese textbooks, linguistic description, literacy and tone acquisition, supplemented by case studies from the Netherlands and Japan.

This book explores the concept of disfluency in speech production, particularly as it occurs in the context of second language acquisition.

This edited volume offers an insightful theoretical conceptualization of issues central to 21st century foreign language learning and teaching.

Practice is a recurring and popular theme in language education.

Practice is a recurring and popular theme in language education.

Child and Adolescent Psychology provides an accessible and thorough introduction to human development by integrating insights from typical and atypical development.

Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings.

*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.

This book traces the evolutionary trajectory of language and teaching from the earliest periods of human evolution to the present day.

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

Confident Speaking provides language teachers and teacher educators with evidence-informed ideas to help second language (L2) learners speak fluently and confidently in different social and academic contexts.

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

Identity and Communicative Competence in Spanish for Specific Purposes analyzes the experiences of three Spanish for specific purposes (SSP) students, offering insight into the intersectionality of society, politics, identity, and linguistics in community-based settings.

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.

Identity and Communicative Competence in Spanish for Specific Purposes analyzes the experiences of three Spanish for specific purposes (SSP) students, offering insight into the intersectionality of society, politics, identity, and linguistics in community-based settings.

Confident Speaking provides language teachers and teacher educators with evidence-informed ideas to help second language (L2) learners speak fluently and confidently in different social and academic contexts.

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at the university level with important implications for Arabic-speaking countries.

This book describes the grammar of Chinese nominal groups for the purpose of text analysis, drawing upon Halliday's systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model.

This book investigates Chinese secondary EFL learners' meaning-making abilities in English L2 writing by adopting theoretical frameworks used in systemic functional linguistics (SFL).

This book presents an empirical study to develop and validate a proficiency scale of business English writing in the Chinese tertiary context.

This book provides interdisciplinary perspectives on task-based language teaching (TBLT) and task-based language assessment (TBLA) in English as a second language (ESL) context.

This book fills the gap in World Englishes studies in terms of the pedagogic implication of China English and its use in the Chinese workplace.

This book explores heterogeneity in the Indian academic setting.

This book is the first edited book to cover a wide range of issues related to Chinese as a second language (CSL) speech, including tone and segment acquisition and processing, categorical perception of tones, CSL fluency, CSL intelligibility/comprehensibility and accentedness, and pronunciation pedagogy.

Based on 55 semi-structured in-depth interviews, this book investigates 15 high-tech engineering co-op professionals' writing experience in the workplace.

This volume addresses an important gap in the literature on task design and second language use.

This book contributes to the literature of interlanguage pragmatics by building an interface between researching and teaching speech acts in the Chinese context.