This book addresses the transfer of rhetorical knowledge from a first language (L1) to a second language (L1-to-L2 rhetorical transfer), a common cognitive phenomenon in the L2 writing of students in foreign language learning environments.
This book argues the case for indigenous African languages, which have been stripped of their importance and are now often overshadowed - both officially, through governmental language policies, and informally, through attitudes and ideologies - by former colonial languages.
This book sheds new light on personality dispositions research into interpreter performance, injecting fresh impetus for a new research agenda designed to further our understanding of hardiness-performance linkages in interpreters.
This eighth edition of Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy, a foundational text in literacy research, is updated to represent a new era in contemporary and critical scholarship.
This book examines Spanish English bilingual patterns in a small town and rural Northeast Georgia community of Hispanics recently immigrated from Mexico and other areas of Latin America.
This book offers a groundbreaking semiotic exploration of metaphor as a fundamental cognitive process shaping how individuals experience and understand the world.
Studying Meaning provides a comprehensive introduction to semantics and pragmatics, covering all key concepts and new developments in an accessible manner.
Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.
Immigrant Englishes Around the World is a collection that explores the varieties of English that emerge when speakers whose native languages are not English immigrate to an English-speaking country.
Using neurolinguistic analysis and innovative research methods, this book explores the fascinating differences between Chinese and English relative clauses, revealing insights into language processing across cultures.
Navigating TESOL is a comprehensive, research-based resource which serves as a practical guide for students of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) for the duration of their master's or certificate program.
'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorker on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar BearAre you formed by your mother tongue?
First published in 1985, Principles of Language and Mind presents a systematic and original account of the principles which enable us to understand the origin, primary functions, and later development of human language.
Navigating TESOL is a comprehensive, research-based resource which serves as a practical guide for students of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) for the duration of their master's or certificate program.
This book addresses how language is conceptualised in Australian schoolingto deliver a better understanding of how multilingualism can be incorporatedinto everyday teaching and learning, practice, and policy.
Using neurolinguistic analysis and innovative research methods, this book explores the fascinating differences between Chinese and English relative clauses, revealing insights into language processing across cultures.
This book supports educators in teaching academic writing skills to Newcomer English Learners (ELs) who are just beginning their English language learning journey.
Dieses Buch fasst mehr als vier Jahrzehnte Forschung zur Imitation in der Säuglingszeit und deren Zusammenhang mit frühem Lernen und soziokognitiver Entwicklung bei typischen und atypischen Kindern zusammen.
Teaching Elementary Grammar with Mentor Texts: Ready to Use Lesson Plans for Grades 3-5 contains detailed grammar lesson plans for teachers in grades three, four, and five.
Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key research questions, experimental designs, research techniques, and instruments used to investigate heritage languages.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies offers a comprehensive survey of cognitive approaches to literature, introducing the influential theoretical tools and latest developments in this vigorously multi-disciplinary field, with leading scholars illuminating the cognitive, affective, and bodily dimensions of literary reading.
Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical research has examined the crucial role of language in the incorporation process, particularly for Indigenous youth.
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies offers a comprehensive survey of cognitive approaches to literature, introducing the influential theoretical tools and latest developments in this vigorously multi-disciplinary field, with leading scholars illuminating the cognitive, affective, and bodily dimensions of literary reading.
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.
