Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Explicit Learning in the L2 Classroom offers a unique five-prong (theoretical, empirical, methodological, pedagogical, and model building) approach to the issue of explicit learning in the L2 classroom from a student-centered perspective.

The testing and assessment of second language learners is an essential part of the language learning process.

This book aims to provide a clear description of key aspects of English phonology in order to help teachers diagnose and prioritize problem areas in pronunciation.

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Listening renews its commitment to provide language educators, practitioners, and researchers in the fields of ESL, TESOL, and Applied Linguistics with a state-of-the-art treatment of the linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes underpinning oral language use, and demonstrates how they influence listening in a variety of practical contexts.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian second language acquisition and pedagogy.

What should language and writing teachers do about giving students written corrective feedback?

It is well known that even after several years' exposure to high-school French, most English Canadians remain unable to speak the language.

Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies.

This text makes available in a concise format the chapters comprising the research methodology section of the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Second Edition.

Viewing Art with Babies demonstrates how to facilitate quality art viewing experiences with babies from as young as 2 months old.

This fascinating study of languages in contact introduces new insights from popular culture, the globalised new economy and computer-mediated communication.

This practical handbook is designed to help language teachers, teacher trainers, and students learn more about their options for using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and develop an understanding of the theory and research supporting these options.

This handbook is geared towards the following aims: Reviewing the state of research on disordered language perception and production in adults and children.

The book is dedicated to the blessed memory of Prof.

One of the most important questions about children's development involves how knowledge acquisition depends on the effect of language experience.

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.

A comprehensive overview of Construction Grammar approaches to language.

This book examines the changing linguistic and cultural identities of bilingual students through the narratives of four Japanese returnees (kikokushijo) as they spent their adolescent years in North America and then returned to Japan to attend university.

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimality Theory, Network Morphology, Cognitive Grammar, and Canonical Typology.

This book is the supporting guide for Speech Bubbles 1,the first set in an exciting new series of picture books designed to be used by Speech Language Therapists/Pathologists, parents/caregivers, and teachers with children who have delayed or disordered speech sound development, children receiving speech therapy, or by those wanting to provide sound awareness activities for their children.

Over the last decade task-based approaches to language learning and teaching (TBLT) have become a global focus of increased levels of research.

Practical and concise, this introductory text for language teaching professionals is a guide to ESL assessment and to fulfilling the testing component of TESOL programs in the U.

Metaphor studies is a vibrant and fascinating field.

This handbook presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Korean.

This is a coursebook designed for students of translation, which will also benefit professional translators as it covers key issues in contemporary legal translation.

Tiger wakes from a dream to find a big bite on his tail - but can he discover who is the culprit?

In der Spracherwerbs- und Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung spielen kognitive Aspekte schon lange eine bedeutende Rolle.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways.

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy.

This two-volume set provides a comprehensive overview of the multidisciplinary field of Embodied Cognition.

In Teaching English Language Learners through Technology, the authors explore the use of computers/technology as a pedagogical tool to aid in the appropriate instruction of ELLs across all content areas.

This collection explores the links between multimodality and multilingualism, charting the interplay between languages, channels and forms of communication in multilingual written texts from historical manuscripts through to the new media of today and the non-verbal associations they evoke.

Tongue Shakers provides an inside look into the state of speaking mother tongue in America's multicultural society.

This collection brings together theory and ethnographic research from a range of national contexts to offer unique insights into the nature of agency in language policy and planning.

Ten years ago, the hegemonic idea was that language was a kind of independent module within the mind, a sort of "e;print-out"e; of whatever cognitive activity was taking place, but without any influence whatsoever in that activity.

Innovations and Challenges in Language Learning Motivation provides a cutting-edge perspective on the latest challenges and innovations in language learning motivation, incorporating numerous examples and cases in mainstream psychology and in the field of second language acquisition.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to try to answer the question of how do we, as human beings, go from the socially neutral linguistic act of discriminating external stimuli to the socially loaded act of promoting social discrimination though language?