Language Acquisition

Essentials of SLA for L2 Teachers: A Transdisciplinary Framework presents an accessible and comprehensive account of current understandings of seco...

The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition is the first collection of state-of-the-art papers pertaining to Instructed Second...

Lucas the Monkey loves to play soccer by the river, but he has a problem Mr. Crocodile, who would love to make Lucas his dinner.This picture book ...

This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. The first chapter identifie...

This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. The first chapter identifie...

This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction and development among Japanese university stud...

This book brings together phonologists working in different areas to explore key questions relating to phonological primitives, the basic building ...

'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convi...

Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society, and as individuals. As we go through life, our relationship w...

Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M. Gasss Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner has become a classical text in the fie...

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

Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and...

This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provide...

Pete, Jem and Belle play hide and seek. Pete has a very good hiding spot will they ever find him?Targeting Subject-Verb-Object sentences and prepo...

Pete, Jem and Belle are enjoying a day at the beach until the weather turns stormy.Targeting Subject-Verb-Object sentences and early adjectives, th...

Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic and central concepts of translation theory and practice, includ...

A comprehensive introduction to how people learn second languages (L2s), this textbook approaches the topic through five problems the L2 learner ha...

Millions of Americans routinely spend half their working day or more with their hands on keyboards and their minds on audiences - writing so much, ...

The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, ...

This volume presents the first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affectin...

The issue of high-level language proficiency in other than monolingual contexts can be approached from a variety of perspectives, including linguis...

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use of English as a common language for communication between speakers whose first ...

Models of theoretical linguistics now emphasize the meeting points, or interfaces, between different aspects of our language capacity. Syntactic op...