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Second Language Acquisition eBook Series

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  • L2 Interactional Competence and Development

    Edited by Prof. Joan Kelly Hall, John Hellermann, Simona Pekarek Doehler ...
    Series Book 56 - Second Language Acquisition
    Drawing on data from a range of contexts, including classrooms, pharmacy consultations, tutoring sessions, and video-game playing, and a range of languages including English, German, French, Danish and Icelandic, the studies in this volume address challenges suggested by these questions: What kinds of interactional resources do L2 users draw on to participate competently and creatively in their L2 ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Understanding Developmental Language Disorders

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Courtenay Frazier Norbury, J. Bruce Tomblin, Dorothy V.M. Bishop ...
    Developmental language disorders (DLD) occur when a child fails to develop his or her native language often for no apparent reason. Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the most common reasons for parents of preschool children to seek the advice of their family doctor. Although some children rapidly improve, others have more persistent language difficulties. These long-term ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Word Grammar

    by Richard Hudson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Word grammar is a theory of language structure and is based on the assumption that language, and indeed the whole of knowledge, is a network, and that virtually all of knowledge is learned. It combines the psychological insights of cognitive linguistics with the rigour of more formal theories. This textbook spans a broad range of topics from prototypes, activation and default inheritance to the ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Argumentation, Communication, and Fallacies

    A Pragma-dialectical Perspective

    by Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst ...
    This volume gives a theoretical account of the problem of analyzing and evaluating argumentative discourse. After placing argumentation in a communicative perspective, and then discussing the fallacies that occur when certain rules of communication are violated, the authors offer an alternative to both the linguistically-inspired descriptive and logically-inspired normative approaches to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • 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

  • Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis

    Edited by David Birdsong ...
    Series series Second Language Acquisition Research Series
    Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis is the only book on the market to provide a diverse collection of perspectives, from experienced researchers, on the role of the Critical Period Hypothesis in second language acquisition. It is widely believed that age effects in both first and second language acquisition are developmental in nature, with native levels of attainment in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Online Teaching and Learning

    Sociocultural Perspectives

    Series series Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching
    Online Teaching and Learning shows how learning through the internet depends on complex human interactions for success.The text uses sociocultural theory as its foundational stance to empirically examine the dynamics of these interactions. It seeks to understand meaning making in all of its social, linguistic and cultural complexity. Each chapter examines how it is that culturally and historically ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Child Language

    by Jean Stilwell Peccei ...
    Series series Language Workbooks
    Building on the established strengths of the first edition, Child Language has now been fully updated and includes some basic theory content, more exercises and summaries at the end of each unit.Child Language:* introduces students to key areas involved in the study of children's language: vocabulary development, word and sentence structure, conversational skills and pronunciation* contains a ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching with Technology

    Edited by Professor Michael Thomas, Dr Hayo Reinders ...
    This edited collection considers the relationship between task-based language teaching (TBLT) and technology-enhanced learning. TBLT is concerned with a number of macro-tasks such as information gathering and problem-solving as well as evaluative tasks, all of which are increasingly available via online and Web-based technologies. Technology Enhanced Learning refers to a broad conception of ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Q & Eh

    Questions and Answers On Language With a Kiwi Twist

    by Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes, Laurie Bauer, Paul Warren ...
    Fascinating answers to quirky questions about language Why is it not wrong to be doubly negative? Where do you place the stress in such words as 'dissect'? Where do 'wowser', 'craw thumper' and the 'f-word' come from? Do New Zealanders mangle the English language? Should we say different 'from' or 'to' or 'than'? We use it every day, but what is this thing called language, and are there rights ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics

    Edited by Michael Spivey, Ken McRae, Marc Joanisse ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Our ability to speak, write, understand speech and read is critical to our ability to function in today's society. As such, psycholinguistics, or the study of how humans learn and use language, is a central topic in cognitive science. This comprehensive handbook is a collection of chapters written not by practitioners in the field, who can summarize the work going on around them, but by ... Read more

    $63.19 USD

  • How the Brain Evolved Language

    by Donald Loritz ...
    How can an infinite number of sentences be generated from one human mind? How did language evolve in apes? In this book Donald Loritz addresses these and other fundamental and vexing questions about language, cognition, and the human brain. He starts by tracing how evolution and natural adaptation selected certain features of the brain to perform communication functions, then shows how those ... Read more

    $54.89 USD