Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Under the Universal Grammar (UG) framework, this book discusses the latest research on the role of L1 bidialectism in L2 acquisition, with a particular focus on early Chinese(L1)-English(L2) learners.

This innovative, comprehensive course textbook uses a clinical approach to explore pragmatics and pragmatic language skills.

This book examines current advances in the role of interactional feedback in second language (L2) teaching and learning.

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the field of Persian linguistics, discusses its development, and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within its major subfields, as well as outlining current debates and suggesting productive lines of future research.

Based on a field-based comparative psycholinguistics case study, this is the first book to explore neurocognition in endangered languages.

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners, second edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics.

Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years.

Rethinking Autism with Dolto takes up a principal legacy of Francoise Dolto's immense project-her conviction that autism is a regression to the archaic.

Pete and Jem are having lots of fun at the zoo, but they both want to see different animals, and are pulling their mother in different directions!

Examines the early linguistic development of children bilingual in English and Cantonese.

This module explores the purposes of and methods for teaching second language writing.

Examines the early linguistic development of children bilingual in English and Cantonese.

Designed for students of applied linguistics and second language acquisition on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is a set or recommended textbook on more than a hundred undergraduate and postgraduate courses worldwide.

Taking three different perspectives, this book looks at primary school children's language learning motivation and language attitudes.

Wittgenstein, one of the most influential, and yet widely misunderstood, philosophers of our age, confronted his readers with aporias-linguistic puzzles-as a means of countering modern philosophical confusions over the nature of language without replicating the same confusions in his own writings.

This book shows how corpus analyses can enhance students', practitioners' and researchers' knowledge of academic language.

An essential text on discourse theory and analytic methods, this book demonstrates the possibilities of using discourse analysis to better understand language, literacy, culture, and teaching.

This book explores the emergence and development of multilingual fiction series, a relatively new phenomenon propelled by the globalization of media industries and the consolidation of streaming platforms as central vectors in the production and consumption of audiovisual entertainment content.

Books in the Teaching English Language Learners (ELLs) across the Curriculum Series are written specifically for pre- and in- service teachers who may not have been trained in ELL techniques, but still find themselves facing the realities and challenges of today's diverse classrooms and learners.

This edited book investigates the input provided by lecturers in English-Medium Instruction (EMI) to reveal the characteristics of both written and oral inputs in EMI settings and their pedagogical implications.

Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "e;Interlanguage"e; is a clear exception.

Explains the complexities of how language supports human social interaction using the framework of embodied cognition.

This edited volume examines current themes in the neurolinguistic study of multilingual and monolingual adults and highlights several new directions the field is moving toward.

This reference work is the first to examine pragmatic language disorders of clients in complex and underserved populations.

The vast majority of work in theoretical linguistics from a generative perspective is based on first language acquisition and performance.

Every now and again I receive a lengthy manuscript from a kind of theoretician known to psychiatrists as the "e;triangle people"e; - kooks who have independently discovered that everything in the universe comes in threes (solid , liquid, gas; protons, neutrons, electrons; the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost ; Moe, Larry, Curly; and so on) .

Designed for pre-service and novice teachers in ELT, What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volumes I, II, and III are companion textbooks organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order to help their students to learn English?

This edited volume showcases state-of-the-art research in technological applications in second language writing.

This book presents a broad, multidisciplinary review of the factors that have been shown to or might influence sharing information on social media, regardless of its veracity.

This practical resource book showcases both the theory and practical application for teacher educators in diverse contexts bringing a global Englishes perspective into their teacher education courses, both at pre- and in-service levels.

Damage to the brain can impair language in many different ways, severely harming some linguistic functions whilst sparing others.

Now in its second edition, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context charts the field systematically and coherently for the benefit of language learning practitioners, students, and researchers.

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns with second and foreign language learning and teaching.

A great majority of people around the world know more than one language.

During the last 10 years, more and more linguistic and psycholinguistic research has been devoted to the study of discourse and written texts.

The 'other' languages of England - those which originate in South and East Asia, and Southern and Eastern Europe - are now important parts of everyday life in urban England.

This collection is a comprehensive resource on conducting research in applied linguistics involving written genres that is distinctive in its coverage of a multiplicity of interdisciplinary perspectives.

This book provides a roadmap for teaching with graphic novels as an effective and engaging approach to advancing reading comprehension for English Learners in secondary schools.

What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences?

This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises.

Given the differences in the orthographic structure of the Uyghur, Chinese and English languages, this study used a mixed-method approach to systematically describe and analyze the phonological awareness of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners and its contributions to their trilingual literacy acquisition and development.

This book presents a current, interdisciplinary perspective on language requisites from both a biological/comparative perspective and from a developmental/learning perspective.