Language Acquisition

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...