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  • Demystifying Bilingualism

    How Metaphor Guides Research towards Mythification

    by Silke Jansen, Sonja Higuera del Moral, Jessica Stefanie Barzen, Pia Reimann, Markus Opolka ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative perspective on the debate on possible cognitive (dis)advantages in bilinguals, arguing that it is biased by popular “language myths”, which often manifest themselves in the form of metaphors. Since its beginnings, Cognitive Psychology has ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition

    by Lourdes Ortega ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

    Perspectives and Practices

    by Kirsten M. Hummel ...
    Series series Linguistics in the World
    Introducing Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives and Practices represents a clear and concise introduction to the main concepts, issues, and debates in second language acquisition studies aimed specifically at undergraduates encountering the topic for the first time.Follows six fictitious language learners throughout the text whose stories serve to introduce various concepts and ... Read more

    $102.00 USD

  • Bilingual First Language Acquisition

    by Dr. Annick De Houwer ...
    Series Book 2 - MM Textbooks
    A comprehensive textbook on bilingual language acquisition.Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages.It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development. It also includes new analyses of previously published ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Sociocultural Theory Second Language Learning

    by James P. Lantolf ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. Specific topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar; sociocultural theory as a theory of ... Read more

    $66.39 USD

  • The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

    Edited by Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    **Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title**Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism.Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Life as a Bilingual

    Knowing and Using Two or More Languages

    by François Grosjean ...
    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 children bilingual. This makes a resource on what it means to become and be bilingual all the more necessary. This book brings together a selection of posts from the author's highly successful Psychology Today blog, grouped by topic into 15 chapters. The ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Edited by Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
    The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Research on Teaching and Learning Mathematics at the Tertiary Level

    State-of-the-art and Looking Ahead

    by Irene Biza, Victor Giraldo, Reinhard Hochmuth, Azimehsadat Khakbaz, Chris Rasmussen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This topical survey focuses on research in tertiary mathematics education, a field that has experienced considerable growth over the last 10 years. Drawing on the most recent journal publications as well as the latest advances from recent high-quality conference proceedings, our review culls out the following five emergent areas of interest: mathematics teaching at the tertiary level; the role of ... Read more

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  • Identity, Gender, and Sexuality

    150 Years After Freud

    Edited by Peter Fonagy, Rainer Krause, Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber ...
    Series series The International Psychoanalytical Association Controversies in Psychoanalysis Series
    'While Freud opened the door on the formative and motivating power of sexuality, contemporary psychoanalysts, with some notable exceptions, have consigned sexuality to the psychoanalytic closet. This book not only re-opens the door on the broad subject of psychosexuality, but also provides fresh insights into heterosexuality, bisexuality, homosexuality, gender identity disorder, transvestism and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Bilingual Mind

    And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought

    by Aneta Pavlenko ...
    If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind. Bilinguals were either excluded from this research as 'unusual' or ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Applied Linguistics

    Edited by Li Wei ...
    Series series Introducing Linguistics
    In this complete survey of the theories, methods, and key findings within applied linguistics, students are introduced to core research questions and the various approaches to tackling these.Provides a comprehensive introduction to this interdisciplinary field of research and practice, dealing with practical issues of language and communicationTakes a problem-solving approach, introducing students ... Read more

    $37.00 USD