Language Acquisition

The acquisition and maintenance of literacy is of pressing interest and concern to educators and educational policy makers worldwide. What are the ...

Originally published in 1970, parents and teachers were beginning to realise how very much earlier in life human intelligence develops than was pre...

This landmark volume provides a broad-based, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning...

With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concer...

The acquisition and maintenance of literacy is of pressing interest and concern to educators and educational policy makers worldwide. What are the ...

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns...

This landmark volume provides a broad-based, state-of-the-art overview of current knowledge and research into second language teaching and learning...

This book explores the idea of ‘intercultural competence’, which, despite its current popularity across various discourses, has remained a vague an...

CALL Research Perspectives creates a foundation for the study and practice of computer-assisted language learning and provides an overview of ways ...

This book deals with bilingual education in general, but it pays special attention to bilingual education in monolingual areas. One central aim is ...

Butler and Huang’s book is one of the first to focus on second language (L2) development research methods and techniques specifically targeted at c...

Corpus Use in Italian Language Pedagogy: Exploring the Effects of Data-Driven Learning provides a comprehensive overview of corpus use in Italian L...

This timely text offers a how-to guide for analyzing gesture and multimodality in second language learning and teaching. Expert contributors from a...

This innovative, timely text introduces the theory, research, and classroom application of critical approaches to the teaching of minoritized herit...

Developing Notetaking Skills in a Second Language combines theoretical perspectives with an analysis of empirical classroom studies and offers a de...

Writing Using Sources for Academic Purposes: Theory, Research and Practice provides research-based information about key components of source-based...

Confident Speaking provides language teachers and teacher educators with evidence-informed ideas to help second language (L2) learners speak fluent...

Chinese grammar is characterized by its simple structure, lack of inflections, and wide use of monosyllabic morphemes. With the increased popularit...

Confident Speaking provides language teachers and teacher educators with evidence-informed ideas to help second language (L2) learners speak fluent...

Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning: Quantitative Methods and Outcomes provides a how-to guide to choosing, using, and understanding q...

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/...

Longitudinal Studies of Second Language Learning: Quantitative Methods and Outcomes provides a how-to guide to choosing, using, and understanding q...

Instructed Second Language Acquisition of Arabic examines the acquisition of agreement asymmetries in the grammatical system of Arabic as a second/...