Language acquisition books

The chapters in this volume are based on papers that were presented at the VIIIth International Congress for the...  Read More >>

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"Focusing on ""English for Academic Purposes"", this text demonstrates the scope, theoretical issues and pedagogical...  Read More >>

This volume presents a comprehensive introduction to the study of second language learning, multilingualism and...  Read More >>

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The essays in this collection examine the public construction of languages, the linguistic construction of publics,...  Read More >>

Provides a resource for the critical discussion of issues in learning to read Chinese from a child acquisition perspective....  Read More >>

This work considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching. Block and Cameron's...  Read More >>

This work considers the issues globalization raises for second language learning and teaching. Block and Cameron's...  Read More >>

"This title explores romance syntax, semantics and second language acquisition. It is part of the ""Current Issues...  Read More >>

When first published in 1923, this classic work took the psychological world by storm. Piaget's views expressed...  Read More >>

This title focuses on the many issues surrounding second language acquisition, from property and transition theories,...  Read More >>

Reviews a range of research on classroom learning, developing a theory of instructed second language acquisition...  Read More >>

An analysis of the beginnings and of the early and subsequent development of thinking about language and languages...  Read More >>

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How children acquire competence in verb placement in languages in which verb placement in matrix clauses does not...  Read More >>

How children acquire competence in verb placement in languages in which verb placement in matrix clauses does not...  Read More >>

This book presents an engaging challenge to those who view the human capacity for language as a winner-take-all...  Read More >>

This title explores the possibility that infants might use information in the speech signal as aid to discovering...  Read More >>

This volume adopts a psycholinguistic approach in the study of cross-linguistic influence in third language acquisition...  Read More >>

This volume is not the product of direct field-work but a gathering together, a sifting and an analysis of all the...  Read More >>

This text looks at the subject of telicity in the second language, and includes such topics as: aspectual distinctions;...  Read More >>

This work is a thorough investigation and comparison of intonational features of two varieties of English: the English...  Read More >>