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Second Language Acquisition eBook Series

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  • L2 Learning, Teaching and Assessment

    A Comprehensible Input Perspective

    by Assoc. Prof. Nihat Polat ...
    Series Book 104 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book explores second language (L2) learning, teaching and assessment from a comprehensible input (CI) perspective. This focus on the role of input is important for deepening our understanding of interactions between the learner, teacher and the environment as well as of the nature of the learning, teaching and assessment processes. The book takes a blended approach that promotes the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Learning, Testing and Teaching

    by Dr. Rod Ellis, Shawn Loewen, Prof. Catherine Elder, Dr. Hayo Reinders, Rosemary Erlam, Jenefer Philp ...
    Series Book 42 - Second Language Acquisition
    The implicit/ explicit distinction is central to our understanding of the nature of L2 acquisition. This book begins with an account of how this distinction applies to L2 learning, knowledge and instruction. It then reports a series of studies describing the development of a battery of tests providing relatively discrete measurements of L2 explicit/ implicit knowledge. These tests were then ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Beliefs, Agency and Identity in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching

    by Paula Kalaja, Ana Maria F. Barcelos, Mari Aro, Maria Ruohotie-Lyhty ...
    This book explores the phenomena of believing (or giving personal meanings), acting, and identifying (or identity construction), and the interconnectedness of these phenomena in the learning and teaching of English and other foreign languages. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning

    Edited by Prof. Liming Yu, Dr. Terence Odlin ...
    Series Book 92 - Second Language Acquisition
    When people attempt to learn a new language, the language(s) they already know can help but also hinder their understanding or production of new forms. This phenomenon, known as language transfer, is the focus of this book. The collection offers new theoretical perspectives, some in the empirical studies and some in other chapters, and consists of four sections considering lexical, syntactic, ... Read more

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  • Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics

    by Rémi A. van Compernolle ...
    Series Book 74 - Second Language Acquisition
    Winner of the AAAL First Book Award 2017!This book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. The framework focuses on the appropriation of sociopragmatic concepts as psychological tools that mediate pragmalinguistic choices. Using multiple sources of metalinguistic and performance data collected during a six-week pedagogical ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • How to start, carry on and end conversations

    Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

    by Paul Jordan ...
    Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals how, with the use of just 65 simple words, it is possible to create 'scripts for thinking' that break ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Measuring L2 Proficiency

    Perspectives from SLA

    Edited by Pascale Leclercq, Amanda Edmonds, Heather Hilton ...
    Series Book 78 - Second Language Acquisition
    The creation of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) has given rise to interest and debate among policy makers, testers, teachers and researchers alike in the reliability and feasibility of the assessment of second language (L2) proficiency. This volume brings together concrete ideas on identifying and measuring L2 proficiency from different branches of SLA research ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Prosodic Categories: Production, Perception and Comprehension

    Edited by Sónia Frota, Gorka Elordieta, Pilar Prieto ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Located at the intersection of phonology, psycholinguistics and phonetics, this volume offers the latest research findings in key areas of prosodic theory, including:•The relationship between intonation and pragmatics in speech production•Sentence modality prosody characterization•The role of pitch in quantity-based sound systems•Consonant-conditioned tone depression phonology across languages•The ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Plurilingual Code-Switching between Standard and Local Varieties

    A Socio-Psycholinguistic Approach

    by Dino Selvaggi, Maurizio Gotti ...
    Series Book 229 - Linguistic Insights
    This book presents a comparative study on plurilingual code-switching (CS) in Italy, Croatia and Scotland-UK, based on Italian in contact with four standard varieties (Spanish, English, Philipino and Croatian) and five non-standard varieties (Arbereshe, Occitan, Calabrese, Istrovenetian and Chakavski).It intends to fill a gap in the literature by proposing an interdisciplinary perspective, as most ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • TESOL: A Guide

    by Jun Liu, Cynthia Berger ...
    This book serves as a comprehensive reference resource for current and prospective English language teachers, students of TESOL, academics, and other professionals working within the field of Teaching English as a Second or Other Language (TESOL).As an essential single-volume resource, TESOL: A Guide explores TESOL in three dimensions: as a profession, as a field of study, and as an international ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Working Memory and Second Language Learning

    Towards an Integrated Approach

    by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen ...
    Series Book 100 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book introduces an approach to understanding and measuring working memory components and functions in second language learning, processing and development. It presents comprehensive, thorough and updated reviews of relevant literatures from cognitive sciences and applied linguistics. Drawing on multidisciplinary research, the book advocates a conceptual framework for integrating working ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Heritage and School Language Literacy Development in Migrant Children

    Interdependence or Independence?

    Edited by Raphael Berthele, Amelia Lambelet ...
    Series Book 119 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book discusses literacy development in heritage language speakers and presents the results of four different quantitative studies that investigate the transfer of literacy skills in bi- and multilingual language development. The empirical studies focus on different populations of pupils, most of them located in various parts of Switzerland, and emphasise the potential residing in shared or ... Read more

    $23.79 USD