Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

This volume--along with its companion Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods--fills an important gap in research on Chicago and, more generally, on language use in globalized metropolitan areas.

Recognizing that the generation of natural language is a goal- driven process, where many of the goals are pragmatic (i.

Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism presents a remarkable diversity of contemporary opinions on the prospects of addressing philosophical topics from a psychological perspective.

This book investigates the notion of Speech Act from a cross-cultural perspective.

Designed for ESL and ELT pedagogy courses around the world, this text describes English grammar from a World Englishes perspective.

This book focuses on the ways in which English language arts (ELA) pre-service and in-service teachers have developed - or may develop - instructional effectiveness for working with English language learners (ELL) in the secondary English classroom.

This textbook focuses on second language speech - how individuals perceive and produce the sounds of their second language.

This book draws on theories of second language acquisition (SLA) to illustrate how interactive white board technology can be exploited to support language acquisition.

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

This book explores stereotypes that learners of six Asian languages- Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Myanmar, Thai and Vietnamese-hold about the target language country, its cultures and people.

This book provides a comprehensive critical account of tandem learning, charting it evolution from its origins in European educational settings to modern programs offering new perspectives on the approach's role within higher education.

Weaving outwards from a centripetal force of biographical stances, this book presents the collective perspectives of literacy researchers from Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and Taiwan.

Speaking Out: Issues and Controversies ?

This is the third volume of a trilogy on English Language education in Asia within the Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education.

Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax.

Focusing on English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in the Arab Gulf states, the authors consider both sociolinguistic and pedagogical perspectives, and explore practical implications.

This is a multi-disciplinary account of language repertoires of early multilingualism across continents, languages and contexts.

Oral assessments are of vital importance to second language learners, but how can teachers and examiners best test L2 learner talk and interaction?

This book explores crosslinguistic influence in third language acquisition, drawing insights from a study of young bilingual secondary school students in Germany to unpack the importance of different variables in the acquisition and use of English as an additional language.

This book is about the possibilities and achievements of children, adolescents and adults who have developmental disorders that make their development of speech difficult or very delayed and who therefore need to develop communication and language with other means than speech.

Modern Hebrew is a highly synthetic Semitic language-its lexicon is rich in morphemes.

This edited book brings together experts on the sociolinguistics of immigration with a focus on the Italo-Romance dialects.

Shortlisted for the 2014 BAAL Book PrizeThis book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education.

Building on the pioneering 2009 volume, Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education, this book reflects the significant expansion in the research since its publication and offers a wider breadth of perspectives on the complex theoretical terrain of race, racism, and antiracism in language education.

Linguistic theory has recently experienced a shift in its conceptual approach from the formulation of descriptively adequate accounts of languages to the definition of principles and parameters claimed to reflect the initial structure of the language faculty, often termed Universal Grammar (UG).

This textbook provides a practical and research-based foundation for teaching second language (L2) multiword units (also commonly called collocations).

Throughout its evolution, Piaget's theory has placed meaning at the center of all attempts to understand the nature and development of knowing.

This book offers a linguistic-semantic analysis of the expression 'Eastern Europe' in international English-language media discourse and academic discourse.

Addresses questions in the study of first language acquisition in three domains of child language.

Based in case studies conducted in the US, Europe, and Latin America, this book explores the feasibility and benefits of trilingual/ multilingual education in the United States.

This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature.

Present-day globalization, migration, and the spread of English have resulted in a great diversity of social and educational contexts in which English learning is taking place.

Explores the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they tell us about the technology-enhanced state of modern society.

Carol Myers-Scotton has edited a collection of essays that covers the choice of one style of English over another in everything from Bible translations to "e;surprise in poetry"e; to supervisor-worker interactions on the automobile assembly line.

This book brings together research on multilingualism, identity and intercultural understanding from a range of locations across the globe to explore the intersection of these key ideas in education.

Using detailed analyses of cross-generational case studies, Smith explains the acquisition of language phonology by children.

From the time of its inception in Canada, multiculturalism has generated varied reactions, none more starkly than between French and English Canadians.

This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions.

With this fun, practical guide, you will have everything you need to re-envision and reinvigorate your world language classroom.

With the increasing linguistic and cultural diversity of students in U.

Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication.