Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This book reviews recent research on the second language acquisition of meaning with a view of establishing whether there is a critical period for the acquisition of compositional semantics.

This collection of twelve papers demonstrates that the concepts developed within the Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an insightful perspective on several important areas of second language acquisition and pedagogy.

The purpose of this book is to promote the value of translanguaging in EFL teaching contexts.

Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M.

Now in its sixth edition, this bestselling textbook remains the cornerstone for the study of second language acquisition, providing a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to SLA.

The narrowing of English language education curriculum in many contexts has negatively impacted classroom teaching and learning.

This textbook uniquely highlights the particular complexities of working systemically with couples and families with children.

The Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research Policy, and Practice, Volume 4 is the newest addition to a series of annual publications of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) that address major issues, the latest research, and the best practices in the field of adult literacy and learning.

Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida.

This volume represents major research issues in language production today, presenting readers with a picture of the breadth of current research in the field.

Die kognitive Linguistik behandelt linguistische Phänomene wie die Grammatik nicht nur unter formalen Aspekten, sondern im Hinblick auf allgemeine kognitive, perzeptive und körperliche Fähigkeiten des Menschen.

Drawing on video recordings and transcripts from a wide range of L2 teaching contexts, The Practical Nature of L2 Teaching presents a comprehensive examination of eight sets of specialized actions and action sequences involved in whole group instruction.

This book aims to develop a framework for a fully explanatory theory of speech production and speech perception.

The term translingual highlights the reality that people always shuttle across languages, communicate in hybrid languages and, thus, enjoy multilingual competence.

This book is about how to teach English as a second language and how second language students learn.

Dialogue in Multilingual and Multimodal Communities contains a collection of new articles that approach the study of dialogue through the construct of the 'community', that is, a group of people who come together for any number of reasons; e.

This innovative collection brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars highlighting the "e;appliability"e; of Systemic Functional Linguistics and the ways in which theoretical and analytical conclusions drawn from its applications can inform and advance the study of language.

An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers an accessible review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories, and models.

Die Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung verdeutlicht, welche Chancen sich für Kinder bieten, die in einer mehrsprachigen Umgebung aufwachsen, und wie der Weg zu mehr als einer Muttersprache bewältigt werden kann.

Sprachliche Heterogenität in der Schule sowie der lehr- und ausbildungspraktische Umgang mit ihr sind zu einem der wichtigsten Querschnittsthemen der Lehrkräftebildung avanciert.

This book explains how children''s early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure.

Originally published in 1991, this volume contains critical state-of-the-art essays on significant aspects of children's development and developmental inquiry.

Geert Booij's popular textbook examines how words are formed, compounded, and inflected in different languages.

This book tackles the interface between translation and pragmatics.

This book presents a proposal to better define thematic relations by exploring the relation between language and cognition.

This comprehensive look at Chinese-heritage students' academic, sociocultural, and emotional development in the public schools examines pertinent educational theories; complex (even inconvenient) realities; learning practices in and outside of schools; and social, cultural, and linguistic complications in their academic lives across diverse settings, homes, and communities.

How do children acquire language?

In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, the Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills.

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

This book explores the social and structural dynamics that underlie the creation of new, or restructured, grammars.

The acquisition of language is one of the most remarkable human achievements.

Didáctica de la psicolingüística es una alternativa para transformar las prácticas educativas basadas en la transmisión de saberes teóricos y asignaturas atomizadas−, y se proyecta hacia el desarrollo de la conciencia del lenguaje, necesaria para aprender de manera autónoma a partir de procesos de lectura y escritura.

This book highlights the narratives of teachers of non-English languages.

Classifier constructions are universal to sign languages and exhibit unique properties that arise from the nature of the visual-gestural modality.

This groundbreaking, provocative book presents an overview of research at the disciplinary intersection of psychoanalysis and linguistics.

Standardized tests demand Standard English, but secondary students (grades 6-12) come to school speaking a variety of dialects and languages, thus creating a conflict between students' language of nurture and the expectations of school.

Contains questions and exercises which examine all aspects of communication disorders and give readers practice at analysing clinical linguistic data.

This volume illustrates the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield highly interesting findings.

This book offers cutting-edge research on multilingual identity by scholars from different disciplines on a range of languages and contexts.