Language Acquisition

Although there has been much empirical study within what has been referred to as "functional approaches to child language," there has yet to be a m...

"This volume has some really nice features such as: the discussion of audio-lingual theory as deriving from behaviorism, the terrific discussion of...

This book provides a deep exploration of technological advancements in language education, tracing its evolution from Computer-Assisted Language Le...

This study examines the use of English in Switzerland from a multilingual perspective based on a corpus of 400 interviews collected in the German s...

What is Second Language Acquisition? In recent years there has been a notable increase in the number of publications discussing and debating issues...

This new book, Processing Instruction: Theory, Research, and Commentary, edited by Bill VanPatten--a pioneer in processing instruction (PI)--is a r...

Tense and aspect are means by which language refers to time--how an event takes place in the past, present, or future. They play a key role in unde...

Synthesizing the theory behind and methodology for conducting judgment tests, Using Judgments in Second Language Acquisition Research aims to clari...

The book presents the process of first and second language acquisition in children as well as the main principles of conventional and unconventiona...

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from Eng...

Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they c...

The last twenty years has seen a huge evolution in approaches to language-learning, due to new technology as well changing theories on how to best ...

Testing of second language pragmatics has grown as a research area but still suffers from a tension between construct coverage and practicality. In...

First published in 1983, this book represents a substantial body of detailed research on children’s language and communication, and more generally ...

Arabic L2 Interlanguage is a significant and timely addition to the field of Second Language Acquisition, providing valuable insight into the devel...

This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children. All the principal strands of language developme...

Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings. Word learning is here understood as the outc...

Ever since attempts were made to describe and explain normal language development, references to exceptional circumstances have been made. Variatio...

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis ...

More than five thousand languages are currently spoken around the globe. Learning to speak one of them is virtually effortless for most of us, so w...

Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japane...

Motivation is one of the key learner characteristics that determine the rate and success of language learning. This volume addresses motivation in ...

This book critically examines South Korean English teachers’ awareness of and attitude towards eight varieties of English and how they respond to t...

This book is the first to summarize the voluminous literature on the development of cognitive, codification, language, and expressive/affective (CC...