Language acquisition

Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist bridges theory and practice to demonstrate how applied linguists are uniquely positioned to make vital contributions towards advancing health equity in the U.

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write.

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

Corpus Use in Italian Language Pedagogy: Exploring the Effects of Data-Driven Learning provides a comprehensive overview of corpus use in Italian L2 Pedagogy.

Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has given formal recognition of parents' rights.

Debates in Second Language Education provides an up-to-date account of the key debates and areas of controversy in the field of second language learning and teaching.

This addition to the Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition series presents a comprehensive review of the latest research findings on sentence processing in second language acquisition.

This Element focuses on English-Medium instruction (EMI), an educational approach that is spreading widely in higher education institutions.

How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple language input from birth and when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood?

In diesem Buch untersucht Christian Helmchen, ob sich Stereotype Threat – konzeptualisiert durch Stigma Consciousness, Ingroup Identification und Domain Identification – negativ auf Schulleistungen der Fächer Mathematik, Deutsch und Englisch auswirkt.

Originally published in 1992.

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 volume provides an integrative review of the emerging and increasing use of network science techniques in cognitive psychology, first developed in mathematics, computer science, sociology, and physics.

This essay attempts to show how a second language is acquired by very young children in the process of socialization with other children.

Now in its third edition, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition continues to present a structured, comprehensive introduction to ISLA's theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical themes, as well as a range of key issues in research and practice.

Many African American children make use of African American English (AAE) in their everyday lives, and face academic barriers when introduced to Standard American English (SAE) in the classroom.

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.

A comprehensive yet concise survey of Japanese linguistics, from leading scholars in the field.

This publication constitutes essential reading for academics, teachers and language policy makers wanting to understand, plan, and implement an educational language program involving learner mobility.

The study of "e;usage"e; has constituted a major line of second language learning research for decades now.

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

Native and Non-Native Teacher Talk in the EFL Classroom explores and compares the linguistic features of native and non-native English teacher talk with the aid of corpus linguistics.

Das Buch Unterrichtseinheiten Englisch für die Praxis hilft Fremdsprachenlehrkräften den bildungspolitischen Anforderungen noch besser gerecht zu werden und dabei gleichzeitig hilfreichen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen zu folgen.

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

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

Now in its second edition, this fundamental undergraduate textbook provides students with everything they need when studying developmental psychology.

How do teachers inspire students to learn to appreciate different Englishes?

The Diagnosis of Reading in a Second or Foreign Language explores the implications of language assessment research on classroom-based assessment practices by providing an in-depth look at the little-examined field of diagnosis in second and foreign language reading.

This book introduces studies on infant and early childhood development that are in a permanent dialogue with the psychology of music, the philosophy of mind, and human movement studies.

This guidebook has been created to accompany the Grammar Tales story books, a collection of beautifully illustrated picture books designed to support grammar and language development in children.

Second Language Processing: An Introduction is the first textbook to offer a thorough introduction to the field of second language processing (SLP).

Health Disparities and the Applied Linguist bridges theory and practice to demonstrate how applied linguists are uniquely positioned to make vital contributions towards advancing health equity in the U.

This book makes a fresh contribution to the field of research ethics by considering research issues through relatable autobiographical narratives.

Since the publication of Vygotsky's Thought and Language in the United States, a number of North American and European investigators have conducted systematic observations of children's spontaneous private speech, giving substantial support to Vygotsky's major hypotheses - particularly those regarding the social origins of higher psychological functions.

Originally published in 1986.

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South.

Dieses werk beschäftigt sich mit Sprachmischungen innerhalb der Nominalphrase bei bilingual aufwachsenden Kindern, die von Geburt an simultan zwei Erstsprachen erwerben.

This timely collection explores the role of digital technology in language education and assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Drawing on a total of 8,308 haiku poems written by 834 English as a foreign language (EFL) university students in Japan, this book explores the value, possibility, and potential of teaching and researching English-language haiku in second and foreign language (SFL) contexts.