Language Acquisition

This major new textbook offers an accessible introduction to many of the most interesting areas in the study of multilingualism. It consists of twe...

This volume is the first handbook devoted entirely to the multitude of frameworks adopted in the field of morphology, including Minimalism, Optimal...

Teachers in any subject area must have a basic understanding of how language is learned and used in educational contexts because language impacts t...

This edited collection contains 13 selected papers presented at the Romance Turn IV conference, which was held at Université François Rabelais, Tou...

The main focus of this volume is test development and accreditation requirements and needs. One of the major objectives here is to show the key asp...

This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across th...

This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage p...

Communication in Autism adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore one of the most common developmental disorders associated with communication...

We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form o...

This volume explores several recurring topics in Romance phonetics and phonology, with a special focus on the segment, syllable, word, and phrase l...

This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisi...

This volume contributes to the development and advancement of TBLT as a research domain by investigating the intersection between tasks and technol...

This book focuses on an increasingly attractive, yet controversial topic of non-native accentedness in speech. The contributors here are aware of t...

This book showcases how language learner agency can be understood and researched from varying perspectives by providing, for the first time, a coll...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in the role of tasks in second language acquisition and a substantial body of research now exists to show...

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple per...

This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject,...

This volume honours Peter Skehans landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as...

Since the 1990s the inclusion of additional languages in primary and kindergarten curricula has become the norm in many jurisdictions globally. Too...

Bilingual language behaviour is driven by numerous factors that are usually studied in isolation, even though individual factors never operate alon...

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015). The contributions c...

This major new textbook offers an accessible introduction to many of the most interesting areas in the study of multilingualism. It consists of twe...

This is the first book on language learner autonomy to combine comprehensive accounts of classroom practice with empirical and case-study research ...

This clear and concise introduction offers students of linguistics and English language a comprehensive overview of English grammar, including word...

Learning a foreign language is much easier when it is approached with a knowledge of language structure ('grammar'), but many students find grammar...

This book presents diverse, original research studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal...

In recent years, prosodic competence has become increasingly important in second language acquisition studies, as it is a crucial element in the id...

The present pocket-sized alphabetic guide to Second Language Acquisition is a landmark and excellent piece of work which gives an up-to-date introd...

A bilingual person, in a broad definition, is one who can communicate in more than one language, be it actively (through speaking, writing, and/or ...

The second edition of Theories in Second Language Acquisition seeks to build on the strengths of the first edition by surveying the major theories ...

Current Issues in Language Evaluation, Assessment and Testing: Research and Practice is a collection of research papers, most of which were present...