Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Anybody who reads or writes Chinese characters knows that they obey a grammar of sorts: though numerous, they are built out of a much smaller set of constituents, often interpretable in meaning or pronunciation, that are themselves built out of an even smaller set of strokes.

This book takes a close look at the ways that five sign languages borrow elements from the surrounding, dominant spoken language community where each is situated.

This book illustrates new virtual intercultural practices for language learning from primary to tertiary education and highlights the transversality of these practices throughout the language curriculum.

This textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics.

This innovative volume is one of the first to represent the usage of bilingual writers in both their languages, offering insight into language corpora as extremely valuable tools in contemporary applied linguistics research, and in turn, into how much of the world's population operate daily.

This book is the very first collection of first-person language learning narratives that offers rich introspective data on the various processes and forces shaping the development and maintenance of multiple languages (seven and more) in a single individual.

Originally published in 1977, this book considers the role language plays in psychological development.

Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories.

In this beautifully illustrated storybook, part of the School Start series, children with language needs can explore the story of Bozo the Clown as he tries to make a new friend.

Which strategies do multilingual learners use when confronted with languages they don't yet know?

This book examines the development of English as a written vernacular and identifies that development as a process of community building that occurred in a multilingual context.

First published in 1987.

China has huge ethnic minorities - over 40 different groups with a total population of over 100 million.

Spotlighting the challenges and realities faced by linguistically diverse immigrant and resident students in U.

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Youth Culture offers the first essential grounding of critical youth studies within sociolinguistic research.

This volume presents selected papers from the 5th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference within the area of discourse analysis.

Written by a team of leading scholars, this book examines how third languages are learned and processed in the brain.

This volume explores the relationship between language and culture while considering its implications for the teaching of modern foreign languages in higher education.

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Linguistics, primarily designed for those beginning postgraduate studies, or taking an introductory MA course as well as advanced undergraduates.

The study endeavors a detailed and systematic classification of linguistic simultaneity expressions.

This book is the first to offer a conceptual framework of English-medium education that can be used across different international higher education (HE) contexts.

Makiguchi Tsunesaburo (1871-1944) was a Japanese schoolteacher, principal, educational philosopher, and Buddhist war resister.

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition (SLA) from multiple perspectives, comprehensively updated to reflect the very latest developments SLA research in recent years.

This timely volume opens a window on issues related to English language education in Vietnam.

CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISHThis innovative book explores how digital language and tools can be used to teach applied grammar in the classroom.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.

Anglophone students abroad: Identity, social relationships and language learning presents the findings of a major study of British students of French and Spanish undertaking residence abroad.

The study of "e;usage"e; has constituted a major line of second language learning research for decades now.

This textbook offers a cutting edge introduction to psycholinguistics, exploring the cognitive processes underlying language acquisition and use.

Moscow is one of the largest cities in Europe.

The Doctorate as Experience in Europe and Beyond presents a detailed and fascintating account of completing a doctorate from the perspectives of researchers, supervisors and students.

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 highly accessible book presents an overview of English morphology for all those involved in the English-language teaching industry.

This collection of 33 papers represents the most current thinking andresearch on the study of cognitive processing in bilingual individuals.

Addresses the question: how can we unravel the evolution of language, given that there is no direct evidence about it?

An extended argument that bilingual speakers have an integrated linguistic competence, rather than two separate grammatical systems.

Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at school.

In this book, leading researchers in morphology, syntax, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics address central questions about the form and acquisition of analogy in grammar.

Teacher educators today need knowledge and practical ideas about how to prepare all pre-service and in-service teachers (not just bilingual or ESL specialists) to teach the growing number of students in K-12 classrooms in the United States who speak native languages other than English.

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and cognition, such as word recognition, language comprehension, and knowledge representations.

In this volume, scholars, researchers, and teacher educators from across the United States present their latest findings regarding teacher education to develop meaningful learning experiences and meet the sociocultural, linguistic, and academic needs of Latino ELLs.

An introduction to the key questions that drive the field of L2 acquisition research, including its historical foundations.

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.