Language Acquisition

Essentials of SLA for L2 Teachers: A Transdisciplinary Framework presents an accessible and comprehensive account of current understandings of seco...

The Routledge Handbook of Instructed Second Language Acquisition is the first collection of state-of-the-art papers pertaining to Instructed Second...

Lucas the Monkey loves to play soccer by the river, but he has a problem Mr. Crocodile, who would love to make Lucas his dinner.This picture book ...

This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. The first chapter identifie...

This book offers a detailed account of the issues, models, and outcomes of research into the cognition of bilingualism. The first chapter identifie...

This book uses a narrative-oriented approach to shed light on the processes of identity construction and development among Japanese university stud...

This book brings together phonologists working in different areas to explore key questions relating to phonological primitives, the basic building ...

'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convi...

Language fundamentally defines and distinguishes us as humans, as members of society, and as individuals. As we go through life, our relationship w...

Twenty years after its first publication, Susan M. Gasss Input, Interaction, and the Second Language Learner has become a classical text in the fie...

This volume is the first to explore links between the Russian linguist Mikhail Bakhtin's theoretical insights about language and practical concerns...

Identity and Language Learning draws on a longitudinal case study of immigrant women in Canada to develop new ideas about identity, investment, and...

This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provide...

Pete, Jem and Belle play hide and seek. Pete has a very good hiding spot will they ever find him?Targeting Subject-Verb-Object sentences and prepo...

Pete, Jem and Belle are enjoying a day at the beach until the weather turns stormy.Targeting Subject-Verb-Object sentences and early adjectives, th...

Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic and central concepts of translation theory and practice, includ...

A comprehensive introduction to how people learn second languages (L2s), this textbook approaches the topic through five problems the L2 learner ha...

Millions of Americans routinely spend half their working day or more with their hands on keyboards and their minds on audiences - writing so much, ...

The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, ...

This volume presents the first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affectin...

The issue of high-level language proficiency in other than monolingual contexts can be approached from a variety of perspectives, including linguis...

English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is a term used to describe the use of English as a common language for communication between speakers whose first ...

Models of theoretical linguistics now emphasize the meeting points, or interfaces, between different aspects of our language capacity. Syntactic op...

Empirical translation studies is a rapidly evolving research area. This volume, written by world-leading researchers, demonstrates the integration ...

If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and...

This book closes the gap between theory and classroom application by capitalizing on learners individuality in second or foreign language learning....

Here's How Children Learn Speech and Language: A Text on Different Learning Strategies is an effective resource for speech-language pathologists wo...

This book is the result of a collaboration between a human editor and an artificial intelligence algorithm to create a machine-generated literature...

The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Language Teaching: metodologías, contextos y recursos para la enseñanza del español L2 provides a comprehensive, ...

Forty-four chapters offering an interdisciplinary overview of SLT written by over sixty renowned experts from around the world; Five broad sections...

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

Second Language Research: Methodology and Design is a clear, comprehensive overview of core issues in L2 research. Authored by well-known scholars ...

Bag the perfect KS2 Spanish dictionary this Back to School. A fun, colourful Spanish to English and English to Spanish dictionary, design...

Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessar...

This singular new textbook is both an introduction to the major theories of second language acquisition and a practical proposal for their applicat...

About half the world's population knows and uses two or more languages in everyday life, and an increasing number of parents are raising their chil...

Culture and language provide two essential frameworks to deal with the concept of time. They view time as observer-determined and thus shed light o...

This comprehensive collection equips readers with a state-of-the-art description of clinical phonetics and a practical guide on how to employ phone...

This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohisto...

This book correlates English-speaking childrens brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes from childrens b...

Defining the construct of interaction for paired assessment purposes has been difficult, despite the evolution of our view of language to include t...

The book investigates adult second language (L2) acquisition of Greek by first language (L1) Russian speakers in the bi-dialectal setting of Cyprus...