Language Acquisition

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

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook provides a chronological account of first language acquisition, showing how young children acquire languag...

This book addresses several issues that have been controversial in the literature surrounding second language (L2) acquisition, including the role ...

To Advanced Proficiency and Beyond: Theory and Methods for Developing Superior Second Language Ability addresses an important issue in Second Langu...

This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as wel...

This book contributes to our understanding of how older learners negotiate family internal and family external socialisation processes and thereby ...

This edited volume, based on papers presented at the 2017 Georgetown University Round Table on Language and Linguistics (GURT), approaches the stud...

This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It pr...

What does it mean to advocate - in translation, for translation, through translation? What does advocacy look like, for those who do the translatin...

Online Communication in a Second Language examines the use of social computer mediated communication (CMC) with speakers of Japanese via longitudin...

These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). Th...

This book provides an overview of current theory, research and practice in the field of language anxiety and brings together a range of perspective...

Assessing Learners Competence in L2 Chinese is the first book intended to answer the question on whether existing standardised and classroom-based ...

Ben the bear loves to blow bubbles, but what happens when he tries to blow the biggest bubble in the world?This picture book targets the /b/ sound,...