Products In Language acquisition (Total Products 42, Showing: 1 -> 42)
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Written corrective feedback (CF) is a written response to a linguistic error that has been made in the writing of a text by a second language (L2) lea...
This book deals with intercultural pragmatics and how both nonnative teachers (NNTs) and native teachers (NTs) may enhance their classroom instruction...
This book investigates the interplay of language, emotion and gender in a multilingual context and provides rich insights into the complexities of bil...
How are two or more languages learned and contained in the same mind or the same community? This handbook presents an up-to-date view of the concept o...
Language and culture are concepts increasingly found at the heart of developments in applied linguistics and related fields. Taken together, they can ...
A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS and R, Second Edition is the only text available that demonstrates how to use SPSS ...
Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decis...
The study of bilingualism and all of its aspects - from theory and models to social approaches and their practical applications - forms the cornerston...
In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of em...
'Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being.'
'I was o...
Drawing from the commentators of the Koran to Walter Benjamin, from the esoteric speculations of Judaism to Herodotus, The Tongue of Adam is a nimble book about the mysterious rise of humankind's multilingualism.
This volume offers fresh perspectives on a controversial issue in applied linguistics and language teaching by focusing on the use of the first langua...
Speech Perception and Spoken Word Recognition features contributions from the field's leading scientists, and covers recent developments and current i...
In the age of the global village and the world wide web, understanding the way in which people learn languages is of ever increasing importance. This ...
This volume offers new insights into the assessment of the language of Young Learners (YLs). YLs are defined here as being from 5 to 17 years, and are...
This is a practical, accessible manual for Speech and Language Therapists, Educational Psychologists and Educators who assess children with language i...
Exploring the canonical topics in second language acquisition, this book introduces different theoretical perspectives and explores the types of resea...
Berwick and Chomsky draw on recent developments in linguistic theory to offer an evolutionary account of language and humans' remarkable, species-spec...
Being a successful speaker of a given language involves control of the meaning and use of vocabulary items, taking in their lexical content (what phen...
This book addresses fundamental questions regarding the relationships between successful language learning and strategy use and development according ...
This prize-winning, readable introduction to research in language acquisition is recommended reading for second language teachers worldwide.
In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bi...
In this comprehensive introduction, Anne-Michelle Tessier examines how we acquire the sounds and sound patterns of language. Analyzing child speech pa...
Positive psychology is the scientific study of how human beings prosper and thrive. This is the first book in SLA dedicated to theories in positive ps...
At the heart of this volume is the recognition that children's engagement with play and story are intrinsically and intricately linked. The contributi...
The Second Language Learning Processes of Students with Specific Learning Difficulties is the only recent book available to offer a detailed and in-de...
This book questions assumptions about the nature of language and how language is conceptualized. Looking at diverse contexts from sign languages in In...
A new edition of a foundational work of cognitive science that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions.Sinc...
Now in a fourth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its...
This book introduces an approach to understanding and measuring working memory components and functions in second language learning, processing and de...
This landmark volume offers a collection of conceptual papers and empirical research studies that investigate the dynamics of language learning motiva...
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This is the best book on the market for taking students from 'how children acqui...
Inside and outside the classroom, children of all ages spend time interacting with their peers. Through these early interactions, children make sense ...
This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic s...
Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic and central concepts of translation theory and practice, including...
Despite the key role played by second language acquisition (SLA) courses in linguistics, teacher education and language teaching degrees, participants...
This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methodsresearchers use to study child language, written by experiencedscholars in the study of lan...
Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are foun...
Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those...
The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems. Language and music are un...
This superbly organised presentation consists of four introductory theoretical chapters dealing with the why, what and how of RLS, six chapters devote...
The issue of high-level language proficiency in other than monolingual contexts can be approached from a variety of perspectives, including linguistic...