Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

From the Constitution to the Bible, from literary classics to political sound bites, our modern lives are filled with numerous texts that govern and influence our behavior and beliefs.

The studies in this volume show how multilingual learners use language play in second language acquisition to internalize sets of 'voices' (rather than decontextualized linguistic systems), namely complexes of linguistic and non-linguistic features incorporating the personalities of significant others.

This book presents an extended analysis of the development of L2 Spanish past tense morphology among L1 English-speaking learners.

In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its translation into an equivalent English schema.

This book includes studies that employ a variety of research techniques from diverse fields targeting a better understanding of the second language (L2)/foreign language (FL) acquisition process including issues of heritage language (HL) learning.

Este trabajo investiga la adquisición del sistema temporal-aspectual en español como segunda lengua/lengua extranjera desde una perspectiva múltiple.

Understanding Reading revolutionized reading research and theory when the first edition appeared in 1971 and continues to be a leader in the field.

This book presents a novel experimental approach to investigating the mental representation of linguistic alternatives.

This collection of 64 papers by contributors throughout the world presents work from a variety of fields, primarily Indo-European linguistics and philology, and thus reflects the broad interests of Edgar C.

Drawing on cutting-edge research, Evans presents an alternative to the received wisdom, showing how language and the mind really work.

The objective of this book is to better acquaint English-speaking linguistics with a corpus of texts hitherto untranslated, containing the cognitive-based research in formal linguistics of one of the most important theoreticians in the field: Antoine Culioli (b.

This bestselling textbook offers an accessible introduction to the application of cognitive psychology, looking at how the findings of cognitive psychologists have been put to use in real life.

Innovative and accessible, this book provides a roadmap for designing school environments that address the needs of English learners (ELs).

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

Designed to support English-teaching faculty across high schools and universities, this practical guide presents novel ideas for integrating pop culture into ELA classroom instruction.

Drawing on the underrepresentation of the Global South in global knowledge production with a focus on the existing inequalities, the book highlights the importance of postcolonial narratives within Global Southern epistemologies in English language teaching (ELT) and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

The Think-Aloud Controversy in Second Language Research aims to answer key questions about the validity and uses of think-alouds, verbal reports completed by research participants while they perform a task.

This volume brings together the work of 32 scholars from 13 countries -- investigations of children learning 15 different languages, in some instances more than one at a time.

Building on Zoltan Dornyei's authoritative work in the field of learner motivation, this book introduces a new conceptualization-Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs)-and sets out the defining aspects of what they are, what they are not, and how they are related to language learning motivation.

This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English.

Now in its second edition, this volume offers a strong synthesis of classic and current work in conversation analysis (CA), usefully encapsulated in a model of interactional practices that comprise interactional competence.

Embracing a sociocultural perspective on human cognition and employing an array of methodological tools for data collection and analysis, this volume documents the complexities of second language teachers' professional development in diverse L2 teacher education programs around the world, including Asia, South America, Europe, and North America, and traces that development both over time and within the broader cultural, historical and institutional settings and circumstances of teachers' work.

Complex factors affect young children and their families in today's increasingly diverse world characterized by globalization, the transnational movement of people, and neo-liberal government policies in western and industrialized countries.

In der vorliegenden Publikation werden zwei Konzepte beschrieben, die vom Deutschen Jugendinstitut München und der Universität Koblenz-Landau im Auftrag der Baden-Württemberg Stiftung entwickelt und erprobt wurden.

Linguistic theory has seen a substantial shift in focus during the past decade.

Russisch würde man ja gern lernen, wäre da nicht dieses schreckliche Alphabet, kyrillisch (oder wie es heißt).

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

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 book takes the following question as its starting point: What are some of the crucial things the reader must do in order to make sense of a literary narrative?

The book contains a collection of papers dealing with the question of how rhythm shapes language.

Taking a critical, research-oriented perspective, this exploration of the theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical connections between the reading and teaching of young adult literature and adolescent identity development centers around three key questions: Who are the teens reading young adult literature?

How humans produce and understand language is clearly introduced in this textbook for students with a basic knowledge of linguistics.

The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Processing presents a clear overview of current theories and findings in bilingual processing.

Asking students to write journals that reflect on their learning has become a widespread pedagogical practice in recent years.

The Role of English Teaching in Modern Japan examines the complex nature of Japan's promotion of English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

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

The book investigates how machine translation (MT) provides opportunities and increases the willingness to communicate in a foreign language.

An investigation into the underlying logic of human languages which looks at how children acquire English and Mandarin.

An in-depth and meticulous study of the English-Spanish bilingual development of two siblings from their first word to age six.

This volume uses unique properties of Chinese script to focus on morphological analyses during the character and word recognition process, though some of the reported work also pertains to the use of phonological information.

Researchers in Romance languages will find this book a stimulating and broad-ranging treatment of the development of grammar, demonstrating the relevance of markedness for both linguistic theory and language teaching.

How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages?

Leadership in English Language Education: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Skills for Changing Times presents both theoretical approaches to leadership and practical skills leaders in English language education need to be effective.

Language in Children provides a concise and basic introduction for students studying child language acquisition for the first time.