Language Acquisition

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One-on-one encounters with writers often contribute more to the development of student writing abilities than any classroom activity because they a...

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora is a state-of-the-art collection of cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection ...

This mixed-methods study investigates the link between accent and identity in an English as a lingua franca setting. The subjects, German and Frenc...

This book addresses the issue of using texts of culture in the EFL classroom. It analyzes some of the common problems observed in the teaching of E...

The present volume provides a cross-linguistic perspective on the development of tense-aspect in L2 acquisition. Data-based studies included in thi...

Understanding, Evaluating, and Conducting Second Language Writing Research speaks to the rapidly growing area of second language writing by providi...

In which way can language be an indicator for cultural identity in immigration contexts? How are collective identity, social networks and the use o...

This introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition – forgetting or loss of language proficiency...

Traditionally, the teaching of English pronunciation has been a marginalized, or indeed neglected, area in many English language teaching (ELT) pro...

Research in Heritage Speaker Bilingualism unites diverse methodological perspectives on heritage language research, offering insights into key rese...

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from Eng...

This introductory text brings together diverse perspectives and research streams on language attrition – forgetting or loss of language proficiency...

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research. Authored by well-known scholars ...

This edited volume represents a collaborative effort from over 20 authors worldwide, who generously shared their expertise and insights on diversit...

This volume looks at different ways in which research and educational practice in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) can be linked. The cha...

After decades of research most scholars generally agree that language acquisition is a complex and multifaceted process that involves the interacti...

This book is the first monographic study on subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing from a multidisciplinary perspective, from engineering to ph...

Widely considered to be a foundational work in the field of listening, Teaching and Researching Listening is among the most recommended textbooks i...

What do we do when we are about to utter speech? On which linguistic units do we rely? How do these units evolve from childhood to adulthood, or ac...

This book discusses the nature of optionality in second language grammars and the indeterminacy observed in second language users’ linguistic repre...

This book brings together a collection of high-quality empirical studies which examine multiple aspects involved in the acquisition, teaching and a...