Language Acquisition

How does classroom language learning take place? How does an understanding of second language acquisition contribute to language teaching? In answe...

This volume explores the cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition from the perspectives of critical/sensitive periods, maturational ef...

Creole languages have in recent years become a valuable source of data for current theories of syntax and theories of child/adult language acquisit...

Dr. Dolittle—and many students of animal communication—are wrong: animals cannot use language. This fascinating book explains why. Can animals be t...

This book explores emotions and affect in language learning during total lockdown during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic when all teaching...

If your listening is preventing you from getting the score you need in IELTS, Collins Listening for IELTS can help. Don't let one skill h...

This book is the first to explore the development of sociolinguistic competence among adult second language (L2) learners in Austria, considering b...

In the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of langu...

In the updated third edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride looks at reading and writing development and impairment across a range of langu...

Rethinking Language Education in the Age of Generative AI bridges the gap between theory, research, and practice in AI and language education. Thro...

Cognitive Task Complexity and Second Language Performance provides an overview of research focusing on the effects of cognitive task complexity (CT...

Cognitive Task Complexity and Second Language Performance provides an overview of research focusing on the effects of cognitive task complexity (CT...

Rethinking Language Education in the Age of Generative AI bridges the gap between theory, research, and practice in AI and language education. Thro...

This fourth edition of the best-selling Theories in Second Language Acquisition surveys the major theories and frameworks currently used in second ...

This book develops the theory and practice of critical foreign language pedagogy. Written by a distinguished scholar of pragmatics and sociolinguis...

This is a book about languages, what languages can and what they cannot do.In this dialogue between a Nobel Laureate and a leading translator, prov...

This new text consists of parts of Bornstein and Lamb’s Developmental Science, 6th edition along with new introductory material that as a whole pro...