Language acquisition

Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally.

Using Chomsky's minimalist program as a framework, this volume explores the role of formal (or functional) features in current descriptions and accounts of language acquistion.

Why has English language proficiency in Japan remained so low in comparison to other Asian countries?

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.

Based on a state-of-the-art review of prior research in all related domains, this book makes precise predictions about the expected effects of specific type and token frequency distributions in input floods and tests these in the second language classroom context.

Student-Centered Approaches to Russian Language Teaching looks at how the field of Russian language pedagogy has evolved in recent years due to advances in technology along with shifts in attitudes to language pedagogy, and how the pandemic has compounded and accelerated these changes.

This book explores and analyses Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL) pedagogic practices and learning experiences within a cohort of low socio-economic status students within an Australian primary classroom.

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields.

For nearly four centuries, our understanding of human development has been controlled by the debate between nativism and empiricism.

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research.

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 book focuses on what is involved in acquiring a second dialect and how such learning is different from second language acquisition.

Looks at the problems ''study abroad'' students face in expressing their personalities in a foreign language and culture.

This book introduces you to an exploration of discourse competence as a core component of successful second language (L2) communication, highlighting its role to promote overall intelligibility levels in L2 learner performance.

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years.

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development.

Doing Replication Research in Applied Linguistics is the only book available to specifically discuss the applied aspects of how to carry out replication studies in Applied Linguistics.

Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns.

This volume represents the first collection of empirical studies focusing on peer interaction for L2 learning.

This book aims to bridge the gap in investigations into the acquisition of phonology from a multilingual perspective.

This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish.

The recent progress in cognitive neuroscience, and the importance of genetic factors and gene-environment interactions in shaping behavioral functions in early childhood, have both underscored the primacy of early experience and development on brain development and function.

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.

From Orthography to Pedagogy pays tribute to Richard L.

First published in 1983, this book represents a substantial body of detailed research on children's language and communication, and more generally on the nature of interactive spoken discourse.

Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this is a state-of-the-art, comprehensive view of the emerging area of heritage language study.

Language is of central importance in children's development and vital for their success at school and in the world beyond.

Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society, and as individuals.

Bilingualism Across the Lifespan explores the opportunities and challenges that are inherent in conducting cognitive research in an increasingly global and multilingual society.

An introduction to linguistics, this book acquaints students to the key areas of linguistics using real-world illustrations.

This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages.

Originally published in 1990.

This book focuses on what is involved in acquiring a second dialect and how such learning is different from second language acquisition.

Task-Based Instruction for Teaching Russian as a Foreign Language presents the most recent developments in the field of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and highlights impactful research-based instructional practices of applying TBLT for the teaching of Russian.

Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition explains the links between creativity and second language learning and how to propel the research of creativity as an individual difference in second language acquisition forward at multiple levels.

Examining the motivational development of Japanese language learners, this book investigates the relationship between their future self-image as Japanese speakers and their broader self-image as multilingual individuals.

Translingual discrimination is inequality based on transnational migrants'' specific linguistic and communicative repertoires that are (il)legitimized by the national order of things.

This module on the nature of language aims to provide the novice and even experienced teacher with a broad and accessible picture of language as a formal system.

Chan's exploration of the acquisition of English grammar and phonology by Cantonese learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) offers insights into the specific challenges that learners often encounter and posits ways to help them overcome those challenges.

This edited volume brings together several original studies that critically examine the quantitative and qualitative effects of service-learning (SL) on foreign and second language learning, and its impact on communities, learners, pre-service teacher candidates, and faculty-researchers.

Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context brings together for the first time a series of studies which explore the relationship between language learning and the study abroad experience.

Multimodal Literacy in English as an Additional Language in Higher Education addresses three key aspects of multimodal literacy in higher education: identifying what is understood by multimodal literacy, its teachability in the EAL context, and how to integrate multimodal competence into professional development programmes.

For effective use, this book should be purchased alongside the illustrated picture book Harry's Story.

This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners.