Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

''Native speakers'' and ''native users'' are playing the same game, sharing, as they do, the model of the Standard Language.

The concept of language is an elusive one, and the concept of mind even more so.

This book presents new narratives about international students undertaking transnational education (TNE) in East and Southeast Asia.

The topic of this bibliography in its broadest sense is the subject of a wide range of academic disciplines.

The Skills of Document Use: From Text Comprehension to Web-Based Learning examines functional literacy from a psychological standpoint.

A Reference Grammar for Teaching Chinese - Syntax and Discourse presents a comprehensive guide on the major issues in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Originally published in 1993, the starting place for this book is the notion, current in the literature for around 30 years at that time, that children could not learn their native language without substantial innate knowledge of its grammatical structure.

One of Moliere's gauche characters in Le Bourgeoise Gentilhomme re- sponds with surprise when he learns that he has been speaking prose all his life.

A comprehensive and integrated approach to referring expressions and their typical and atypical use in different language contexts.

This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning.

This volume draws on empirical evidence to explore the interplay between language teacher identity (LTI) and professional learning and instruction in the field of TESOL.

The linguistics and language education world has recently experienced a rapidly proliferating interest in applying technology.

This book addresses contemporary issues in the assessment of plurilingual competence and plurilingual learners.

This is an innovative study of variation among linguistic items in what has been traditionally described as present perfect contexts.

This volume offers a comprehensive account of language development from a Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) perspective, integrating theory and data from a wide range of research studies.

Extending the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, this volume contains chapters on seven more languages, including a section on ergative languages.

Accessible and hands-on, this textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to teaching language through content, an approach known as Content-Based Language Teaching (CBLT).

This hands-on, practical guide for ESL/EFL teachers and teacher educators outlines, for those who are new to doing action research, what it is and how it works.

This book introduces studies on infant and early childhood development that are in a permanent dialogue with the psychology of music, the philosophy of mind, and human movement studies.

Drawing on real-life interviews, Brandt explores what happens when writing overtakes reading as the basis of people''s daily literate experience.

Language is an essential part of what makes us human.

Dealing specifically with the origins and development of human language, this book is based on a selection of materials from a recent international conference held at the Center of Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Bielefeld in Germany.

Based on the assumptions that students expect feedback and want to improve, and that improvement is possible, this book introduces a framework that applies the theory of self-regulated learning to guide second language writing teachers' response to learners at all stages of the writing process.

This book presents novel data from endangered languages and cultures that are ever so often still not focused on.

Noodle loves to jump in muddy puddles, and his friends don't understand.

This book examines the phenomenon of silence in relation to human behaviour from multiple perspectives, drawing on psychological and cultural-philosophical ideas to create new, surprising connections between silence, quiet and rest.

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.

The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship provides an essential contribution to understanding the politics of Israel/Palestine through the prism of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.

What is language and what is the nature of the intelligence that can acquire it?

This volume offers an in-depth description and discussion of research design for a large-scale investigation of bilingual development.

Researching Multilingualism expertly engages with a new sociolinguistics of multilingualism, taking account of this new communicative order and the particular cultural and social conditions of our times.

The Arts and Emergent Bilingual Youth offers a critical sociopolitical perspective on working with emerging bilingual youth at the intersection of the arts and language learning.

Results of the Collaborative Perinatal Project report disclose the risk factors for mental retardation found in children examined from the prenatal period to age seven.

How can English language teachers contribute to peace locally and globally?

Muffin is a quirky little fish full of fun ideas.

Children in the Marshall Islands do many things that adults do not.

Ever since attempts were made to describe and explain normal language development, references to exceptional circumstances have been made.

Effective language learning depends on effective instruction.

It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems.

Contextualizing College ESL Classroom Praxis: A Participatory Approach to Effective Instruction provides pre-service and in-service teachers with a model for engaging in effective instruction with the variety of students encountered in college English as a second language or foreign language classrooms.

Continuing on from the previously published Primary School English-Language Education in Asia: From Policy to Practice (Moon & Spolsky, 2012), this book compiles the proceedings which took place at the 2011 annual conference of AsiaTEFL which took place in Seoul, Korea.

This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child language acquisition, Melissa Bowerman.