Language Acquisition

What is it about social interaction at the workplace that spurs interactional competence development? This book explores the answers to this questi...

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fi...

For language teachers, the daunting task of teaching languages, both native and foreign, in ways that will engage and motivate their students is a ...

This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension, production, and acquisition of secon...

This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension, production, and acquisition of secon...

This book presents a practical and easy-to-follow guide to develop and deliver an online language course successfully. It provides language teacher...

This publication constitutes essential reading for academics, teachers and language policy makers wanting to understand, plan, and implement an edu...

Any theory of phonology must be able to account for the acquisition and development of a phonological system, and studying acquisition often leads ...

The aim of this volume is to highlight the benefits and potential of using learner corpora for the testing and assessment of L2 proficiency in both...

Pragmatic competence plays a key role in the era of globalization where communication across cultural boundaries is an everyday phenomenon. The abi...

This book presents the latest developments in crosslinguistic influence (CLI) and multilingualism research. The contributors, both veteran research...

Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this v...

This book presents, for the first time, an overarching, trans-Scandinavian, comprehensive and comparable account of linguistic developments and pra...

This book examines how Russian-speaking adoptees in three US families actively shape opportunities for language learning and identity construction ...

This volume presents original up-to-date research in the field of language acquisition. The contributions reflect experimental work guided by lingu...

Instead of viewing different perspectives on the self as competing with each other and considering one perspective on the self as being inherently ...

Affectivity is at the core of everything we do in life. Thus, its development is also central to learning/acquisition and is important for educatio...

Winner of the AAAL First Book Award 2017! This book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultu...

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

This book presents the latest developments in crosslinguistic influence (CLI) and multilingualism research. The contributors, both veteran research...

Beginning from the conflict between individual learner differences and the institutionalized, often inflexible character of formal language instruc...

This book presents, for the first time, an overarching, trans-Scandinavian, comprehensive and comparable account of linguistic developments and pra...

This book explores the role of identity in adolescent foreign language learning to provide evidence that an identity-focused approach can make a di...

Instead of viewing different perspectives on the self as competing with each other and considering one perspective on the self as being inherently ...

A handy, affordable Ukrainian to English and English to Ukrainian dictionary for everyday use, including a guide to common everyday expressions in ...

The home of trusted Turkish dictionaries for everyday language learning. A handy and affordable Turkish to English and English to Turkish...

Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research, the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information...

This book investigates the efficacy of a teacher educator collaborating with rural Chinese teachers of English to activate agentic adoption of task...

International migration and the social diversity it creates constitute one of the key global challenges of the early 21st century. Language and com...

International migration and the social diversity it creates constitute one of the key global challenges of the early 21st century. Language and com...

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisio...

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisio...

This book is the first hands-on roadmap for conducting rigorous experimental research on second language speech processing and spoken word recognit...