Language acquisition

First published in 1983.

The latest title in the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition Series presents a comprehensive review of connectionist research in second language acquisition (SLA).

This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies.

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Bloomsbury Companion To Second Language Acquisition, this book is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics.

The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology charts the state of the art in the field, describing relevant areas of communication studies where a biological approach has been successfully applied.

Jasper the badger has a plan to get some peace and quiet so he can eat his piece of fudge by himself.

Researchers working at the intersections of language and education reflect on how their life experiences have informed their research.

Originally published in 1988.

The new edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research on stress and health, moving beyond the former deficit model to a resource growth model.

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as the application of drama, music, dance and storytelling to second language acquisition.

Der didaktische Wert von Picturebooks fur den Englischunterricht in der Grundschule gilt als unumstritten.

Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989.

Dieser Band präsentiert die Grundlagen der Berufs- und Fachsprachenlinguistik sowie der Wissenschaftssprachen-Forschung und behandelt dabei sowohl grammatische als auch pragmatische und lexikalische Aspekte und die Prinzipien der Fach- und Berufskommunikation.

British English Phonetic Transcription provides an accessible introduction to phonemic, phonetic and intonational transcription with a focus on British English.

Originally published in 1995.

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The study of speech errors, or "e;slips of the tongue,"e; is a time-honored methodology which serves as a window to the representation and processing of language and has proven to be the most reliable source of data for building theories of speech production planning.

Surveys key findings and ideas in sign language phonology, exploring the crucial areas in phonology to which sign language studies has contributed.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

With a sharp focus, this culmination of cutting-edge research offers a new neuroscientific model for analysing multilingualism.

Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years.

An evidence-based review of the central issues in language acquisition research.

Originally published in 1991, this volume contains critical state-of-the-art essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry.

This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom.

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 book provides a comprehensive review of new developments in the study of language processing and related neural networks in schizophrenia by addressing the complex link between psychopathology, language and evolution at different levels of analysis.

This collection offers a critical examination of online language teacher education programs (OLTE), looking at a range of issues which have informed their development and the challenges and opportunities in their implementation from a TESOL perspective.

These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP).

Ethics in Applied Linguistics Research explores how ethical issues are negotiated in different areas of language research, illustrating for graduate students in applied linguistics the ethical dilemmas they might encounter in the research methodology classroom and how they might be addressed.

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

Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the brain to demonstrate how language is processed.

This Element explains how different language learning settings dynamically affect bilingual children''s language learning trajectories.

In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate.

An international team of experts provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of working memory and language in this Handbook.

This innovative and original volume brings together studies that apply cognitive and functional linguistics to the study of the L2 acquisition of Japanese.

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.