Grammar & Vocabulary

The articles in this volume were originally presented in spring 2009 at an international conference hosted by the Institute of Germanic and Romance...

The book discusses various arguments for and against Critical Period Hypothesis for the acquisition of foreign language native-like pronunciation. ...

Migration und Mehrsprachigkeit stellen die Schulen in vielen Ländern vor eine bedeutende Herausforderung: Wie sollen sie mit der sprachlichen Versc...

This volume has its origins in an international conference on emotions organized by the Polish Association for the Study of English and held at the...

This volume is a collection of German and English papers presented at a symposium for young researchers on ‘Norms in Educational Linguistics’, whic...

Mit der vorliegenden Festschrift für Rüdiger Grotjahn wird ein Wissenschaftler geehrt, der die deutsche Sprachlehrforschung der letzten 30 Jahre ma...

Mit Translation, Sprachvariation und Mehrsprachigkeit sind die Hauptarbeitsgebiete von Lew Zybatow benannt, dem dieser Band aus Anlass seines 60. G...

This book approaches the empirical validation of a popular method of assessing lexical knowledge – the yes/no vocabulary test or lexical decision t...

This publication constitutes a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New S...

Lexical innovations represent unconventional forms resulting from unsuccessful rule application by children as they unpack regular patterns in thei...

Early literacy is tackled from different angles. Researchers from Germany, Spain and Australia focus on learning to read and spell in two languages...

This book examines the whys and wherefores of family language transmission from the perspective of parents as language planners and managers of the...

Diese Arbeit zeichnet mit Hilfe innovativer quantitativer und qualitativer Methoden die Entwicklung der französischen Marketingterminologie anhand ...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht zum einen - am Beispiel deverbaler Substantivbildungen - die Frage der Abweichungen der argentinischen Lexik von ...

Russian-speaking immigrants residing in the Czech Republic or Germany are faced with the challenge of acquiring the Slavic (Czech) or Non-Slavic (G...

This book is based on the belief that the research object of studies on multilingualism needs a new interpretation and clearer definition. It is ar...

This volume presents a textbook on German grammar written by Francis (Franz) Lieber in 1835. Persecuted in Germany for his revolutionary views, Lie...

This monograph offers an incisive analysis of how the second language learner can achieve cultural proficiency, which is more than a set of rules a...

The author uses a theoretical account rooted in TEFL, language acquisition and educational psychology to provide the basis for the development of a...

This longitudinal qualitative study explores the motivation and identity development of students in a comprehensive university who are learning Eng...

Das Wörterbuch der deutschen Gegenwartssprache ist in der Geschichte der Lexikographie ein Sonderfall, denn man kann wohl kein anderes vergleichbar...

Contents: Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk/Katarzyna Dziwirek: Emergence of Cognitive Corpus Linguistics – Piotr Pęzik: Extraction of multiword expre...

Is two-way immersion education associated with social and intercultural benefits? This book examines social and intercultural benefits of bilingual...

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes fokussieren methodische und theoretische Probleme in sprachwissenschaftlichen Bereichen, in denen Norbert Dittmar in sei...

Based on an innovative corpus-based approach, this book offers a comprehensive survey of the phonological and phonetic properties of L2 speech in E...

The diagnostic assessment of writing is an important aspect of language testing which has often been neclected in the literature. However, it is an...

Assessment in Second Language Pronunciation highlights the importance of pronunciation in the assessment of second language speaking proficiency. L...

Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar is a reference to Korean grammar, and presents a thorough overview of the language, concentrating on the real patte...