Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population.

Examining what is involved in learning to write for academic purposes from a variety of perspectives, this book focuses in particular on issues related to academic writing instruction in diverse contexts, both geographical and disciplinary.

An introduction to the rapidly growing category of New Adult (NA) literature, this text provides a roadmap to understanding and introducing NA books to young people in high school, college, libraries, and other settings.

Using current intervention research on grammatical properties, this textbook explores key concepts in second language acquisition.

This edited volume brings together studies that test the effectiveness of original version television for foreign language learning and the possible ways to enhance this learning process.

Using English Words examines the impact that the life histories of people have on their vocabulary.

In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew-the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition-and Yiddish-the East European Jewish vernacular-were "e;a match made in heaven that cannot be separated.

Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books explores how contemporary, culturally relevant, and responsive picture books can provide educators with a chance to teach about race and racism in the classroom.

Teaching English to the World: History, Curriculum, and Practice is a unique collection of English language teaching (ELT) histories, curricula, and personal narratives from non-native speaker (NNS) English teachers around the world.

This book is intended to contribute to the clarification of the linguistic research area covered by the terms modal, evidential and epistemic.

This book presents a nuanced look at the relationship between language learning styles and culture to illuminate how these important constructs are understood, employed and play out in the real world.

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues.

Recent developments in linguistic theory, as well as the growing body of evidence from languages other than English, provide new opportunities for deeper explorations into how language is represented in the mind of learners.

This engaging, inviting textbook from a renowned expert in writing education provides all the knowledge, pedagogical strategies, and tools needed to enable any teacher to be an effective teacher of writing.

This book presents a new vision of literacy that frames meaning-making and communication in relation to individual, collective, and ecological needs.

Now in its second edition, this reader-friendly text offers a comprehensive treatment of concepts and knowledge related to teaching second language (L2) listening, with a particular emphasis on metacognition.

This comprehensive collection of chapters is written by leading researchers in psycholinguistics from a wide array of subfields.

This volume explores and compares linguistic practices among young people in linguistically and culturally diverse urban spaces.

Language description plays an important role in language learning/teaching because it often determines what specific language forms, features, and usages are taught and how.

Language plays a central role in human life.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary language shift and identity in a language community in the mid-Atlantic South to offer a unique window into ethnic dialect formation and sociolinguistic processes underpinning dialect acquisition.

Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in the field.

This book investigates how victims of a large-scale traumatic event converge and diverge in metaphor use in describing their traumatic experiences.

This book investigates interaction-focused scholarship on online communication.

This English version of A Language in Space: The Story of Israeli Sign Language, which received the Bahat Award for most outstanding book for a general audience in its Hebrew edition, is an introduction to sign language using Israeli Sign Language (ISL) as a model.

Focusing on the needs and experiences of underrepresented students in the US, this text explores how pre-college outreach programs can effectively support the development of students' writing skills in preparation for the transition from high school to college.

This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics.

This book explores Japanese students' learning experiences and challenges in English medium instruction (EMI) from motivational perspectives.

Este recurso exitoso provee introducciones claras y directas a las teorías fundamentales de John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget y Lev Vygotsky.

A comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of memory, language and cognitive processing across various populations of bilingual speakers.

The central question in this volume is how to create a society of "e;engaged readers"e; in today's world, where reading is increasingly overruled by other media, such as television and personal computers.

"e;I can say with certainty that this book will add a compelling sense of depth and texture to the existing body of research in first and second language literacy.

This book analyses the learning experiences of students of Business English at a Chinese university.

How do we understand what we are told, resolve ambiguities, appreciate metaphor and irony, and grasp both explicit and implicit content in verbal communication?

This book explores debaters' professional identity construction through implicit negation in televised debates from an interpersonal pragmatic perspective.

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

Now in its second edition, this accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview of the problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation, and other language-related domains.

Provides an accessible, comprehensive and practical introduction to current theory and research in second language writing and their classroom applications.

This volume offers a valuable overview of recent research into the semantic aspects of complex words through different theoretical frameworks.

First published in 1984.

This volume gathers recent research findings in the field of foreign language (FL) teaching in Romanian higher education dwelling on both methodology and students' learning outcomes.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition brings together fifty leading international figures in the field to produce a state-of-the-art overview of Second Language Acquisition.

This monograph is intended as a contribution to the integral description of language and verbal communication.

This editedcollection explores the processes of secondlanguage learning and teaching from a psycholinguistic perspective.