Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice.

In recent years, the expansion of screen media, including film, TV, music videos, and computer games, has inspired new tools for both educators and learners.

This book contributes significantly to our understanding of bilingualism and bilingual education as a sociocultural and political process by offering analyses of the stories of five Tibetan individual journeys of becoming bilingual in the Tibetan areas of China at four different points in time from 1950 to the present.

The book explores the pedagogical potential of autobiographical writing in English-as-a-foreign language, approaching the topic from an educational, longitudinal, dialogical, and social perspective.

Bringing together scholarship on issues relating to language, culture, and identity, with a special focus on Asian countries, this volume makes an important contribution in terms of analyzing and demonstrating how language is closely linked with crucial social, political, and economic forces, particularly the tensions between the demands of globalization and local identity.

This book presents a view of human language as social interaction, illustrating its implications for language learning and second language teaching.

This book is an authoritative text that explores best classroom practices for engaging adult learners in beginner-level foreign language courses.

This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent.

The new edition of Bilinguality and Literacy argues that bilingual children's literacy learning in English is necessarily an intercultural process.

This book focuses on the challenges of teaching in diversely multilingual classrooms, discussing how these challenges and complexities interact in the preparation of teachers (language & content areas) in and for multilingual settings, and how they impact on educational processes, developments, and outcomes.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores how multilingualism is shaped by a variety of factors.

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and language testing: shared ground where researchers seek to measure second language performance to better understand how people learn their second languages.

This book, addressed primarily to students and researchers in semantics, cognitive linguistics, English, and Australian languages, is a comparative study of the polysemy patterns displayed by percussion/impact ('hitting') verbs in English and Warlpiri (Pama-Nyungan, Central Australia).

Based on a research project funded by the Army Research Institute, Foreign Language Learning reports original empirical and theoretical research on foreign language acquisition and makes recommendations about applications to foreign language instruction.

This innovative, accessible book is an introduction to using digital storytelling in language teaching, with a focus on English as an Additional Language (EAL) instruction.

As one of the most recognized names in the fields of language assessment and applied linguistics, Lyle F.

Critical Thinking provides language teachers with a dynamic framework for encouraging critical thinking skills in explicit, systematic ways during their lessons.

Despite the increasingly global implications of conversations about writing and learning, U.

Basic text for freshman composition courses.

This volume brings together significant findings, approaches, and research-based pedagogies on teaching and learning source-based writing.

Reading in Chinese as an Additional Language focuses on Chinese literacy acquisition, which has been considered most difficult by both learners and teachers of Chinese as an additional language (CAL).

This volume investigates the interconnections between language and literacy in terms of the structures of language as well as the linguistic contexts of literacy.

An examination of the scientific evidence for the mechanisms which underlie the effect a writer''s language has on the reader.

This book explores the social, political, and historical forces that mediate language ideology and practices in post-colonial education and how such ideology and practices influence students' academic achievement.

This comprehensive account of performance-based assessment of L2 lexical proficiency analyzes and compares two of the primary methods of evaluation used in the field and unpacks the ways in which they tap into different dimensions of one model of lexical competence and proficiency.

This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood.

This volume tracks the impact Processing Instruction has made since its conception.

Practical and accessible, this book comprehensively covers everything you need to know to design, develop, and deliver successful online, blended, and flipped language courses.

This book aims to provide an account of both what and how onomatopoeia communicate by applying ideas from the relevance theoretic framework of utterance interpretation.

This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism.

How is speech produced and understood in the context of everyday communication?

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.

Pete, Jem and Belle play hide and seek.

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax.

This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations.

A spirited and engaging linguistic and social re-imagination of the role and nature of clichés in communication and interaction.

The use of sign language has a long history.

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/foreign language through the lens of instructed second language acquisition.

Reflective Language Teaching: Practical Applications for TESOL Teachers is an extensively revised and updated second edition of the popular and accessible text Reflective Language Teaching: From Research to Practice originally published in 2008.

This multidisciplinary overview of research into emotional mimicry and empathy explores when, how and why emotional mimicry occurs.