Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics

Cognitive linguists are convinced that the nature of linguistic structures is strongly influenced by the way we experience and perceive the world and by how we conceptualize and construe these experiences and perceptions in our minds.

The area of cognitive processing of Chinese and Japanese is currently attracting a great deal of attention by leading cognitive psychologists.

In this special edited volume, the editors and invited English Medium Instruction (EMI) researchers, from different parts of the world, outline the latest EMI research methods.

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

Enriching ESOL Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for Engagement, Reflection, and Inquiry is a collection of thought-provoking articles and activities designed to engage practicing and prospective ESOL teachers in an ongoing process of reflecting on, critically examining, and investigating theory and practice.

Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist economy principles.

Language learning research aims to describe and fully explain how and why language learning takes place, but can fall short of its stated purpose.

This book revolves around educating recently arrived immigrant youth in the United States who are emergent bilinguals.

Bringing together a comprehensive collection of newly-commissioned articles, this Handbook covers the most recent developments across a range of sub-fields relevant to the study of second language Spanish.

A comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of memory, language and cognitive processing across various populations of bilingual speakers.

Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over the last two decades.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the role of recursion in language in two distinct but interconnected ways.

This book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings.

This book contains papers that were written to honor Professor Lyn Frazier on the occasion of her retirement from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION This is one of eight volumes of the Encyclopedia of Language and Educa- tion published by Kluwer Academic.

Volume II of the handbook offers a unique collection of exemplary case studies.

This book is not written for posterity.

This interdisciplinary new work explores one of the central theoretical problems in linguistics: learnability.

This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective.

Psychoanalytic theory has been the critical instrument of choice for colonial critics.

This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development.

This book illustrates the latest developments in literacy and language assessment in the digital context, and subsequently presents a rigorous validation study on a newly proposed form of assessment (scenario-based assessment, SBA) that seeks to respond to the contextual change of literacy activities.

This book presents practical approaches for engaging with Hip Hop music and culture in the classroom.

This volume examines revolutionary constructs in literacy education and demonstrates how they have been gentrified, whitewashed, and appropriated, losing their revolutionary edge so as to become palatable for the mainstream.

The book highlights the expansion of discourse-pragmatic variation and change, especially under-studied variables and languages.

This volume brings together established and new scholarly voices to explore how participatory and situated approaches to learning can contribute to educational innovation.

This authoritative 2003 textbook provides a linguistic perspective on second language acquisition.

In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like.

This book is the first edited book to cover a wide range of issues related to Chinese as a second language (CSL) speech, including tone and segment acquisition and processing, categorical perception of tones, CSL fluency, CSL intelligibility/comprehensibility and accentedness, and pronunciation pedagogy.

A Co-publication of the National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge.

Interest in cognitive development has been resurgent in recent years as a result of continuing improvements in technology and the new methods of research these enable.

This book adopts an integrated approach to the study of contact literature through collaboration between theories of World Englishes and translation studies.

This book explores a much-debated area of language acquisition: the omission by young children of direct objects in a sentence.

This collection of essays is a representative sample of the current research and researchers in the fields of language and social interactions and social context.

This volume highlights unique features of L2 teachers' motivation, autonomy and career development in Far East counties (including Japan, South Korea and China), using diverse methodological research approaches incorporating both quantitative and qualitative paradigms.

This book names and confounds the mono-mainstream assumption that invisibly frames much research, the ideologies that normalize monolingualism, monoculturalism, monoliteracy, mononationalism, and/or monomodal ways of knowing.

This book is an introduction to the statistical analysis of word frequency distributions, intended for linguists, psycholinguistics, and researchers work- ing in the field of quantitative stylistics and anyone interested in quantitative aspects of lexical structure.

This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings.

*Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award*Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning.

This book breaks new ground towards an understanding of the mental processes involved in presupposition, the comprehension of information taken for granted.

This book examines one-way foreign language immersion education in the United States.

This edited book attempts to foreground how challenges and complexities between policy and practice intertwine in the teaching and learning of the STEM subjects in multilingual settings, and how they (policy and practice) impact on educational processes, developments and outcomes.

Originally published in 1980.