Language Acquisition

This book provides an analysis of two theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of l...

This carefully balanced set of studies and practitioner research projects carried out in various learning contexts around the world highlights cutt...

This carefully balanced set of studies and practitioner research projects carried out in various learning contexts around the world highlights cutt...

This volume offers an introduction to the field of second language acquisition with a particular focus on second language Spanish. It connects key ...

The new media have long become an essential part of the foreign language classroom, and computer enhanced language pedagogy is now becoming a stand...

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition is a clear and concise introduction to the main theo...

Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928) is an international Buddhist leader, peacebuilder, prolific author, and the founder of the secular Soka kindergartens, elem...

Non-professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT) is a recent discipline. Books and volumes on this subject that combine all the different field...

The age for early language learning has dropped dramatically in the past decade to include children under 6 years old, yet very little published re...

Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research presents and discusses research projects that serve as theoretical grounding for improving the ...

This book provides an analysis of two theories of language acquisition: the theory that acquisition is primarily mediated by innate properties of l...

SLA Research and Materials Development for Language Learning is the only book available to focus on the interaction between second language acquisi...

Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the analysis of various characteristics within individuals t...

Written as a tribute to Lila Gleitman, an influential pioneer in first language acquisition and reading studies, this significant book clearly esta...

Extending the tradition of this series, which has become a standard reference work in language acquisition, this volume contains chapters on seven ...

Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to ...

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teac...

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teac...

First Language versus Foreign Language deals with the «battle» that takes place in writers’ heads when writing in a foreign language. Most academic...

This book dissiminates a selected collection of research texts from the Congress Hybrid Identities, held in 2011 in the Institute for Research into...

SLA Research and Materials Development for Language Learning is the only book available to focus on the interaction between second language acquisi...

Each child is spoken to by genetic heritage and by the rich current set of interactional environments -- familial, local community, and broader cul...

The past two decades have created quantitatively higher and qualitatively different demands for foreign language skills. Learners’ needs, expectati...

Over the past decade, the focus of inquiry into the psychology of SLA has shifted from the analysis of various characteristics within individuals t...

This volume contains contributions from leaders in the field of child language in honor of one of the preeminent scholars in the field of child lan...

The goal of the present study was to identify, describe and account for bilingual (Russian-Hebrew) varieties spoken in the Russian immigrant commun...

This book aims to aid English teachers at the junior and senior secondary school levels in teaching pronunciation within a regular EFL syllabus. It...

Based on the Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Biology and Knowledge Revisited focuses on the classic issue of the relationship between ...

This book focuses on the early acquisition of signed languages and the later development of reading by children who use signed languages. It repres...

While research into aspects of standardised language tests is growing, the area of classroom-based language assessment (CBLA) is still not well-def...

Black and Wiliam’s (1998) influential article Inside the Black Box prompted an increasing interest in assessment processes within the classroom. Ho...

This publication is dedicated to the memory of Associate Professor Pavlos Pavlou, a distinguished language testing and assessment researcher, ELT p...

The 21st-century global linguistic landscape has seen many changes for language learners. New assessments have been made in a host of areas, especi...

The Guidelines for Good Practice of the European Association for Language Testing and Assessment (EALTA) stress the importance of collaboration bet...

A volume on second-language acquisition theory and pedagogy is, at the same time, a mark of progress and a bit of an anomaly. The progress is shown...