SubjectsLinguistics / Language acquisition

Book series

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Bilingual Processing and Acquisition

Edited by John W. Schwieter

ISSN 2352-0531
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Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition

Edited by Elina Druker, Vanessa Joosen and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

ISSN 2212-9006
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Innovations in Language Learning and Assessment

Edited by John M. Norris and Sara T. Cushing

ISSN 2772-9575
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Language Acquisition and Language Disorders

Edited by Roumyana Slabakova and Lydia White

ISSN 0925-0123
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Language Learning & Language Teaching

Edited by Nina Spada and Laura Gurzynski-Weiss

ISSN 1569-9471
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Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching

Edited by Manfred Pienemann, Bruno Di Biase and Jörg-U. Keßler

ISSN 2210-6480
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Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

ISSN 2590-096X
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Studies in Bilingualism

Edited by Fatih Bayram and Tihana Kraš

ISSN 0928-1533
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Task-Based Language Teaching

Issues, Research and Practice

Edited by Martin East, Marta González-Lloret and Andrea Révész

ISSN 1877-346X
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Trends in Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Shanley E.M. Allen and Evan Kidd

ISSN 1569-0644

Yearbooks

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Annual Review of Language Acquisition

Edited by Clara Levelt, Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen

ISSN 1568-1467 | E‑ISSN 1569‑965X
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ISSN 0817-9514 | E‑ISSN 2542‑5102
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EUROSLA Yearbook

Edited by Sarah Ann Liszka

ISSN 1568-1491 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9749

Journals

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Applied Pragmatics

Edited by Zia Tajeddin and Naoko Taguchi

ISSN 2589-109X | E‑ISSN 2589‑1103
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Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

Edited by Peter Crosthwaite

ISSN 0155-0640 | E‑ISSN 1833‑7139
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Chinese as a Second Language (漢語教學研究—美國中文教師學會學報)

The journal of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, USA

Edited by Shuai Li

ISSN 2451-828X | E‑ISSN 2451‑8298
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ISSN 2211-7245 | E‑ISSN 2211‑7253
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Evolutionary Linguistic Theory

Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Eric Fuß

ISSN 2589-1588 | E‑ISSN 2589‑1596
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ISSN 0019-0829 | E‑ISSN 1783‑1490
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International Journal of Learner Corpus Research

General Editor: Tove Larsson and Magali Paquot

ISSN 2215-1478 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1486
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Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes

Edited by Pejman Habibie and Sue Starfield

ISSN 2590-0994 | E‑ISSN 2590‑1001
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Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education

Edited by Susan Ballinger, Ana Llinares and Yuen Yi Lo

ISSN 2212-8433 | E‑ISSN 2212‑8441
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ISSN 2215-1931 | E‑ISSN 2215‑194X
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Journal of Second Language Studies

General Editor: Boping Yuan

ISSN 2542-3835 | E‑ISSN 2542‑3843
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Language Ecology

General Editor: Umberto Ansaldo and Lisa Lim

ISSN 2452-1949 | E‑ISSN 2452‑2147
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Language Teaching for Young Learners

Edited by Dingfang Shu and Jonathan Newton

ISSN 2589-2053 | E‑ISSN 2589‑207X
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Language, Interaction and Acquisition

Langage, Interaction et Acquisition

Edited by Sandra Benazzo, Marion Blondel, Helen Engemann, Marianne Gullberg, Henriëtte Hendriks, Martin Howard, Fabian Santiago, Anita Thomas and Georges Daniel Véronique

ISSN 1879-7865 | E‑ISSN 1879‑7873
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Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch

ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272
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Pedagogical Linguistics

Edited by Andreas Trotzke and Tom Rankin

ISSN 2665-9581 | E‑ISSN 2665‑959X
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Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics

Published under the auspices of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics

Edited by Francisco Alonso-Almeida and Giovanni Garofalo

ISSN 0213-2028 | E‑ISSN 2254‑6774
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ISSN 2405-5522 | E‑ISSN 2405‑5530
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TASK

Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning

Edited by Kris Van den Branden and Koen Van Gorp

ISSN 2666-1748 | E‑ISSN 2666‑1756
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Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts

Edited by Maria González-Davies and Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer

ISSN 2352-1805 | E‑ISSN 2352‑1813
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60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research

Edited by Grégory Miras, Isabel Colón de Carvajal, Nathalie Blanc and Shona Whyte

For sixty years, applied linguistics has stood at the crossroads of language and society, by meeting real-world needs. 60 Years of Applied Linguistics: Toward more engaged research offers a compelling reflection on the field’s evolution while calling for a renewed commitment to socially responsive,… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 22] 2026. xvii, 204 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art

Edited by Soonja Choi

In chapters encompassing phonology, reading and writing, the lexicon, morphology, syntax, and semantics, Acquisition of Korean: The state of the art offers a comprehensive overview of research in each area, along with cutting-edge original studies. Designed to document, support, and inspire… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 36] 2026. vii, 505 pp. + index
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Digital and Internet-Based Research Methods in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Matt Kessler

This edited volume examines topics related to digital and internet-based research methods in the interdisciplinary field of applied linguistics. The book brings together internationally recognized experts with diverse interests from across the field. Covered are key approaches, methods, tools, and… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 15] 2026. xii, 433 pp.
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New Frontiers and Connections in Second Language Acquisition: Selected Proceedings of the 17th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA-17) Conference

Edited by Tania Ionin and Silvina Montrul

This volume contains a representative sample of studies presented at the 17th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference (GASLA-17). The chapters explore new frontiers, and make connections between second language acquisition, bilingualism, psycholinguistic… read more
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Quantitative Methods in Multilingual Acquisition and Processing

Edited by Gabrielle Klassen and John W. Schwieter

The growing fields of language acquisition and processing have made great strides in understanding how individuals learn and use more than one language across various stages of life in diverse contexts. This is partly due to the methodological innovations that have been developed and refined in… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 16] 2026. xv, 314 pp.
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Selected Papers from Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 4

Edited by Thorsten Piske and Thomas Herbst

Special issue of Pedagogical Linguistics 7:1 (2026) v, 219 pp.
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Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Language Learning

Edited by Robyn Ober, Carly Steele and Alistair Harvey

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 49:2 (2026) v, 166 pp.
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Task-Based Approaches to Teaching Additional Languages in Primary School

Veronika Timpe-Laughlin and Yuko Goto Butler

How can primary school children develop real communicative ability in an additional language? How can teachers move beyond isolated vocabulary and grammar practice toward meaningful language use that aligns with children’s cognitive, social, and developmental needs? This volume provides the first… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 19] 2026. xv, 208 pp.
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Turn-Taking in Second Language Acquisition: The role of prosody in turn-end prediction

Emilia Nottbeck

This volume investigates to what extent second language learners of English anticipate the end of a speaker’s turn during turn-taking and what role prosodic cues play in this process. Drawing on two reaction-time experiments that partially replicate earlier turn-taking studies, it compares native… read more
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Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: In honour of Heike Behrens

Edited by Karin Madlener-Charpentier, Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Mirjam Weder and Annelies Häcki Buhofer

Over the last three decades, usage-based (UB) approaches have developed into a leading paradigm in research on language, language use, and (first and second) language acquisition. This volume shows how current UB approaches—embracing diverse perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies—place… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 35] 2026. xx, 343 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Virtual Reality in Inclusive Language Learning: Enhancing vocabulary acquisition for dyslexic university students

Giulia Staggini

This monograph offers a timely and original contribution to applied linguistics by bringing into dialogue second language acquisition, inclusive language learning, and immersive technologies. The volume addresses a persistent gap in current research by focusing on specific language needs and… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 23] 2026. xiii, 323 pp. + index
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Advanced Quantitative Methods in Bi-/Multilingualism

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, George Pontikas and Ian Cunnings

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:4 (2025) v, 175 pp.
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Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages

Edited by Henry Tyne and Stefania Spina

Applying Corpora in Teaching and Learning Romance Languages is the first major volume dedicated to the use of corpora in teaching and learning Romance languages. Covering four Mediterranean Romance languages – French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan – the volume provides a thematically structured… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 122] 2025. vi, 406 pp.
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Approaches and Methods in French Second Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Martin Howard

Against the backdrop of the critical importance of recognising the specificity of learning languages other than English (LOTEs) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, this volume focuses on a state-of-the-art presentation of the research approaches and methods that characterise French as… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 9] 2025. xi, 379 pp.
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Approaches to Machine Translation

Edited by Mahdieh Fakhar, Monica Vilhelm and Paz Díez-Arcón

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 11:1 (2025) v, 126 pp.
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Becoming a Member in Social Worlds

: The interface of learning and socialization in L2 interactions

Edited by Klara Skogmyr Marian and Simona Pekarek Doehler

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 16:1 (2025) v, 198 pp.
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Broadening the Horizon of TBLT: Plenary addresses from the second decade of the International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching

Edited by Martin East

First launched in 2005, the biennial International Conferences on Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) have become an established event for a broad range of participants, and a key feature of the conferences has been the invited plenary (keynote) addresses. This edited volume brings together a… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 17] 2025. viii, 283 pp.
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Child-centered Approaches to Applied Linguistic Research

Edited by Yuko Goto Butler and Annamaria Pinter

In recent years, child-centered research has garnered increasing attention among scholars working with children. However, it remains under-explored within the field of applied linguistics. This gap is partly attributable to the conceptual complexity of the notion itself; “child-centered research”… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 13] 2025. ix, 202 pp.
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Corpus Linguistics for Language Learning Research

Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Geraldine Mark and Anne O'Keeffe

This book serves as an introduction to corpus linguistics (CL) for graduate students and researchers in Applied Linguistics, especially in the domains of language learning and teaching. It provides a structured and accessible approach for those new to CL, equipping readers with the foundational… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 12] 2025. xiii, 207 pp.
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Cumulative Knowledge Building in Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Tove Larsson and Douglas Biber

Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 11:1 (2025) v, 244 pp.
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Early Language Education in Instructed Contexts: Current issues and empirical insights into teaching and learning languages in primary school

Edited by Stefanie Frisch and Karen Glaser

This volume presents state-of-the-art research in early foreign language (L2) education in instructed contexts with a special focus on primary school (ages 5-12). Over the past two decades, early language teaching has become an important factor in both academic inquiry and education policy. Studies… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 62] 2025. xiv, 330 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Emerging Issues in Content-Based Minority Language Immersion Education Contexts

Edited by Laurent Cammarata and Pádraig Ó Duibhir

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 13:1 (2025) vi, 192 pp.
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Epistemological issue: Translanguaging

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 15:1 (2025) vi, 116 pp.
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First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages

Edited by Minna Kirjavainen, Ágnes Lukács and Virve-Anneli Vihman

This book is the first comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the first language acquisition of four Finno-Ugric languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and North Saami. Ten chapters review research on phonological, lexical, and grammatical development, bringing the research within the… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] 2025. vii, 349 pp.
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Historical Linguistics at School

Edited by Theodore Markopoulos and Brian D. Joseph

Special issue of Pedagogical Linguistics 6:2 (2025) v, 145 pp.
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Modality in the Architecture of Language

Edited by Ermenegildo Bidese and Manuela Caterina Moroni

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 7:1/2 (2025) v, 207 pp.
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Questionable Research Practices in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Luke Plonsky

Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 8:2 (2025) vi, 240 pp.
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Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics

Edited by Pejman Habibie and Richard D. Sawyer

Reflexive and Reflective Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics moves the field of Applied Linguistics into new methodological territory. Applying both the newer reflexive methodologies of currere and duoethnography as well as the more established methodologies of autoethnography and narrative… read more
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Research Methods in Complex Dynamic Systems Theory Approaches to Second Language Development

Edited by Wander Lowie, Rosmawati and Vanessa De Wilde

This edited volume is a timely and significant contribution to second language development research from a Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) perspective. The book addresses the growing need for consistent and practical methodologies for CDST research. Each chapter presents an innovative method… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 14] 2025. x, 222 pp.
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Research at the Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics: Studies in honor of Kimberly L. Geeslin

Edited by Megan Solon, Matthew Kanwit and Aarnes Gudmestad

This volume honors the scholarly legacy of Kimberly L. Geeslin. Geeslin’s pioneering work on variation in the Spanish copula system united and extended research in the fields of second language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Geeslin laid the foundation for a growing subfield of investigation… read more
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The Second Language Acquisition of English Tense, Aspect and Modality

Dalila Ayoun

After a comprehensive description of the French and English tense, aspect, mood/modality (TAM) systems in Chapter 1, an overview of key theoretical perspective and applied perspectives from the morpheme-order studies to examples of internal and external interfaces in monolingual child acquisition… read more
[Not in series, 243] 2025. xi, 244 pp.
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Second Language Cognitive Task Complexity: A research synthesis

Shoko Sasayama, Aleksandra Malicka and John M. Norris

This book addresses the topic of cognitive task complexity as it has been investigated in second language (L2) task-based research. This interest is premised on the notion that communication tasks may differ systematically in the types and amounts of cognitive complexity they present to L2… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 18] 2025. xi, 295 pp.
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Teacher Education for Task-Based Language Teaching

Edited by Xavier Gutiérrez, Lara Bryfonski and Greg Ogilvie

Special issue of TASK 5:2 (2025) vi, 216 pp.
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Technology and Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Connecting research and pedagogy

Edited by Shawn Loewen, Frederick J. Poole, Hyun-Bin Hwang and Matthew D. Coss

This book brings together a team of leading international scholars to explore the rich inter-section of technology and second language (L2) learning and teaching. This innovative volume offers a unique blend of cutting-edge empirical research, pedagogy-informed perspectives, and practical… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 63] 2025. x, 365 pp.
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Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity

Edited by Laura Rosseel and Eline Zenner

This volume, resulting from the fifth edition of the conference series Variation in Language Acquisition (ViLA), brings together research at the intersection of language acquisition and sociolinguistics. Work within the ViLA tradition explores how learners—from preschoolers to adult second-language… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 34] 2025. vi, 262 pp.
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Audiovisual Input and Second Language Learning

Edited by Carmen Muñoz and Imma Miralpeix

This volume presents research on second language learning through audiovisual input, conducted within the SUBTiLL (Subtitles in Language Learning) project at the University of Barcelona. It includes studies exploring various language dimensions and skills, such as vocabulary, pronunciation, and… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 61] 2024. x, 241 pp.
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The COLT Observation Scheme: Digital versions and updated research applications. Second revised edition

Nina Spada

This volume presents the second edition of the Communicative Orientation of Language Teaching (COLT) Observation Scheme. Since the book’s original publication, COLT has become well established as a research instrument in L2 teaching and learning. This new edition brings COLT into the 21st century… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 60] 2024. vii, 210 pp.
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Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Studies

Edited by Dilin Liu, Xiaofei Lu and Isaiah WonHo Yoo

Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 7:2 (2024) v, 192 pp.
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Current Perspectives on Generative SLA - Processing, Influence, and Interfaces: Selected proceedings of the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference

Edited by Marta Velnić, Anne Dahl and Kjersti Faldet Listhaug

This volume comprises studies and keynote addresses presented at the 16th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference hosted by The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU, in Trondheim in 2022. The selection of cutting-edge studies presented covers a wide array of… read more
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Digital Social Reading and Second Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by Joshua J. Thoms and Kristen Michelson

Rapid changes in communication channels, tools, and conventions of interaction over the last two decades have paved the way for increasingly digital learning environments. In second language (L2) education, shifts toward digital learning and teaching were intensified during the pandemic and many… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 21] 2024. ix, 193 pp.
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English Prosody in First and Second Language Speakers: A contrastive interlanguage analysis across intonational dimensions

Karin McClellan

Discover the intricate dynamics of L2 prosody with this pioneering study, which examines how advanced learners from Czech, German, and Spanish backgrounds engage with British and American English intonation. By employing a multidimensional approach - spanning phonetic, phonological,… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 120] 2024. xix, 296 pp.
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The Evolution of Expletives: Theoretical and diachronic perspectives

Edited by Eric Fuß and Benjamin L. Sluckin

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 6:1/2 (2024) v, 243 pp.
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Filling the Void: Young language learners and the intercultural domain

Edited by Sandie Mourão and Raphaelle Beecroft

Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 6:2 (2024) v, 143 pp.
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Graded Resources for Second and Foreign Language Learning

Edited by David Alfter and Thomas François

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 175:1 (2024) v, 162 pp.
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Individual Differences and Task-Based Language Teaching

Edited by Shaofeng Li

This volume consists of a collection of empirical studies and research syntheses investigating the role of individual difference (ID) variables in task-based language teaching (TBLT)—a pedagogical approach that emphasizes the importance of the performance of meaning-oriented tasks in facilitating… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 16] 2024. viii, 379 pp
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Interactions and Language Acquisition in Non-Family Settings

Edited by Caroline Masson

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 15:1 (2024) v, 188 pp.
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La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE: Integrating pronunciation in the Spanish language classroom

Editado por Zsuzsanna Bárkányi, M. Mar Galindo Merino y Aarón Pérez-Bernabeu

La integración de la pronunciación en el aula de ELE es una obra colectiva de 23 especialistas que abordan la enseñanza de la pronunciación del español como lengua adicional desde distintas perspectivas con el fin de enriquecer su didáctica. El objetivo es mostrar que la pronunciación encuentra su… read more
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Language Acquisition in Romance Languages

Edited by Vicenç Torrens

The research presented in this volume covers first language acquisition, second language acquisition, language heritage and language impairment. Papers in this collection use a variety of experimental methods, such as eye-tracking, elicitation tasks, production tasks administered off-line and… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 18] 2024. viii, 308 pp.
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Learner Corpus Research for Pedagogical Purposes

Edited by Sandra Götz and Sylviane Granger

Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 10:1 (2024) v, 240 pp.
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Less Frequently Used Research Methodologies in Applied Linguistics

Edited by A. Mehdi Riazi

Research methodology plays a pivotal role in generating new knowledge in any academic discipline. Applied Linguistics (AL) researchers use a variety of research methodologies to address different research problems and research questions, given its interdisciplinary nature. Notwithstanding the… read more
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Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives

Edited by Israel Sanz-Sánchez

This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various… read more
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Multifaceted Multilingualism

Edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann

This volume collects research on language, cognition, and communication in multilingualism. Apart from theoretical concerns including grammatical description, language-specific analyses, and modeling of multilingualism, different fields of study and research interests center around three core… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 66] 2024. x, 434 pp.
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Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: An ecosystemic view to diversity

Edited by Elena Babatsouli

The volume espouses an ecosystemic standpoint on multilingual acquisition and learning, viewing language development and use as both ontogenesis and phylogenesis. Multilingualism is inclusively used to refer to sociolinguistic diversity and pluralism. Whether speech, writing, gesture, or body… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 67] 2024. ix, 645 pp.
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Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll

Edited by Lindsay Hracs

Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research, the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information available to first and second language learners, as well as to shed light on how that information is used to solve a variety of learning problems. The… read more
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Processing in Bilingual Children

Edited by Chantal van Dijk, Jasmijn E. Bosch and Sharon Unsworth

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 14:4 (2024) v, 174 pp.
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Translating Power Distance

Edited by Maria Sidiropoulou

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 10:3 (2024) v, 142 pp.
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Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Language Learning: The need for attention

Ulf Schütze

It is intriguing and challenging to learn a language by diving into the worlds of Virtual Reality (3-D environments, avatars, games) and Artificial Intelligence (chatbots, agents). What are the issues and benefits of these technological innovations? Taking readers on a journey through the brain,… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 19] 2024. xv, 146 pp.
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Audiovisual translation in context: Granting access to digital mediascapes

Edited by Jorge Díaz-Cintas, Alessandra Rizzo and Cinzia Giacinta Spinzi

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:3 (2023) v, 165 pp.
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Bilingualism through the Prism of Psycholinguistics: In honour of Albert Costa

Edited by Mikel Santesteban, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Cristina Baus

Professor Albert Costa (1970-2018) was one of the most influential scholars in the fields of psycholinguistics and bilingualism. This book provides a faithful look at the most relevant lines of research in which he worked during his academic career. Written by some of his close collaborators and… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 17] 2023. vi, 297 pp.
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Challenges and solutions in translation: Insights into training, ELF, and accessibility

Guest-edited by Rossella Latorraca and Jacqueline Aiello

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 9:1 (2023) v, 141 pp.
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Child L2 Writers: A room of their own

Amparo Lázaro-Ibarrola

Studies on L2 writing tasks with child learners have broken through several barriers in the past few years. Although long considered a solitary task, writing is now regularly done in collaborative pairs and groups as well. New and more comprehensive writing and feedback strategies have been… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 32] 2023. xi, 236 pp.
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Cross-language Influences in Bilingual Processing and Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Irina Elgort, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Marc Brysbaert

A great majority of people around the world know more than one language. So, how does knowing one language affect the learning and use of additional languages? The question of cross-language influences is the focus of this book. Do bilinguals hear, understand, and produce language and meaning… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 16] 2023. vi, 321 pp.
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Current State of Second Language Studies in Japan

Edited by John Matthews and Shigenori Wakabayashi

Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 6:2 (2023) v, 171 pp.
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Describing and assessing interactional competence in a second language: Special issue of the journal of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023)

Edited by Emma Betz, Taiane Malabarba and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten

Special issue of Applied Pragmatics 5:2 (2023) vi, 176 pp.
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Developmental Profiles in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Theoretical and methodological implications

Silvia Silleresi

This book presents the current state of knowledge and recent advances on three topics in research on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): the (debated) existence of profiles of abilities, the role of bilingualism, and the impact of interactive technologies. It includes six chapters that cover: a review… read more
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Epistemological issue: The dynamics of bilingualism in language shift ecologies

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:1 (2023) vi, 132 pp.
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Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects

Edited by Georgia Fotiadou and Ianthi Maria Tsimpli

Individual Differences in Anaphora Resolution: Language and cognitive effects explores anaphora resolution from different perspectives, and investigates various aspects of the phenomenon, as contributions include research protocols that combine old and new experimental methodologies as well as… read more
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 18] 2023. vi, 246 pp.
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Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: Historical perspectives

Edited by Richard Smith and Tim Giesler

By adopting a historical perspective, this edited collection of papers takes a fresh look at a key concept in applied linguistics, that of innovation. A substantial introduction advocates historical re-evaluation of this notion via exploration of its rise to prominence, while the ten subsequent… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 20] 2023. x, 220 pp.
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Instrumentalising Foreign Language Pedagogy in Translator and Interpreter Training: Methods, goals and perspectives

Edited by Olaf Immanuel Seel, Silvia Roiss and Petra Zimmermann-González

This volume offers a wide array of cutting-edge original research on the implementation of Foreign Language Pedagogy in translator and interpreter training, a still rather unexplored field of research in Translation Studies. It is divided in two distinct sections. The first section focuses on… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 161] 2023. x, 291 pp.
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L2 Collaborative Writing in Diverse Learning Contexts

Edited by Mimi Li and Meixiu Zhang

This book is the first edited volume to compile up-to-date scholarship that discusses frontier knowledge on second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) and highlights technology-mediated solutions to it. The volume consists of conceptual papers and empirical studies that explore theoretical,… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 59] 2023. vii, 253 pp.
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L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process

Edited by Alicia Martínez-Flor, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández and Júlia Barón

This is the first edited volume dedicated to both teachers and learners of second/foreign language (L2) pragmatics. It comprises a collection of studies that explore how teachers background and practices, and individual learners differences contribute to the teaching and learning of L2 pragmatics.… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 58] 2023. xxii, 343 pp.
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L3 Development After the Initial State

Edited by Megan M. Brown-Bousfield, Suzanne Flynn and Éva Fernández-Berkes

To date, the field of L3 acquisition research has had a heavy focus on the initial state of the L3 grammar. While this initial state research is critical to understanding L3 acquisition as a whole, in order for an explanatory understanding of language acquisition in the multilingual mind, the field… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 65] 2023. vi, 275 pp.
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Language learning for language minority students in a globalized world

Edited by Mark Feng Teng and Fan Fang

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 46:2 (2023) v, 158 pp.
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Learner translation corpus research

Guest-edited by Sylviane Granger and Marie-Aude Lefer

Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 9:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.
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Meaningful Language Test Scores: Research to enhance score interpretation

Edited by Spiros Papageorgiou and Venessa F. Manna

Research on how stakeholders interpret language test scores and how they make decisions about language proficiency is critical because score-based decisions can be extremely consequential for test takers, score users, such as educational institutions and employers, and the society overall. This… read more
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Methods in Study Abroad Research: Past, present, and future

Edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal and Cristina Sanz

Study abroad research has become an established area of inquiry with theoretical impact and methodological sophistication. The field has incorporated the different approaches and methodological changes that have characterized SLA scholarship, including technological advances and new designs. The… read more
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Processability and Language Acquisition in the Asia-Pacific Region

Edited by Satomi Kawaguchi, Bruno Di Biase and Yumiko Yamaguchi

This PALART volume makes an original addition to the Series as it opens a stimulating window on the Asia-Pacific region of the world by bringing together a great deal of empirical and theoretical new work in Second Language Acquisition within the Processability Theory (PT) framework. Readers will… read more
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Research Methods in the Study of L2 Writing Processes

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón and Julio Roca de Larios

This volume brings together the perspectives of new and established scholars who have connected with the broad fields of first language (L1) and second language (L2) writing to discuss critically key methodological developments and challenges in the study of L2 writing processes. The focus is on… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 5] 2023. vi, 387 pp.
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Structural similarity across domains in third language acquisition

Edited by Nadine Kolb, Natalia Mitrofanova and Marit Westergaard

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13:5 (2023) v, 136 pp.
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Study Abroad and the Second Language Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Variation in Spanish

Edited by Sara Zahler, Avizia Y. Long and Bret Linford

This volume offers a comprehensive snapshot of the breadth of empirical research currently being conducted on the second language acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in Spanish during study abroad. Research on this topic spans diverse methodological approaches, types of programs, linguistic… read more
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Understanding Language and Cognition through Bilingualism: In honor of Ellen Bialystok

Edited by Gigi Luk, John A.E. Anderson and John G. Grundy

Bilingualism is a ubiquitous global phenomenon. Beyond being a language experience, bilingualism also entails a social experience, and it interacts with development and learning, with cognitive and neural consequences across the lifespan. The authors of this volume are world renowned experts across… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 64] 2023. vi, 394 pp.
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What can metacognition teach us about the evolution of communication?

Edited by Joëlle Proust

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 5:1 (2023) v, 101 pp.
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10th Anniversary Celebration

Edited by Pádraig Ó Duibhir and Laurent Cammarata

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 10:2 (2022) vi, 269 pp.
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The Acquisition of Gender: Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

Gender as a morphosyntactic feature is arguably “an endlessly fascinating linguistic category” (Corbett 2014: 1). One may even say it is among “the most puzzling of the grammatical categories” (Corbett 1991: 1) that has raised probing questions from various theoretical and applied perspectives.… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 63] 2022. xi, 282 pp.
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Autism, Language, Communication and Cognition

Edited by Stephanie Durrleman

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 4:1 (2022) v, 151 pp.
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Bilingualism, Language Development and Processing across the Lifespan

Julia Herschensohn

How does knowledge of a first or second language develop, and how is that knowledge used in real time comprehension and production of one or two languages? Language development and processing are the central topics that this book explores, initially in terms of first language(s) and then in terms… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 15] 2022. xxi, 292 pp.
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Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Agnieszka Leńko-Szymańska and Sandra Götz

This volume illustrates the high potential of learner corpus investigations for research into the CAF triad by presenting eleven original learner corpus-based studies which are set within solid theoretical frameworks, examine learner corpora with state-of-the-art analytical techniques and yield… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 104] 2022. vi, 327 pp.
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Consumable Reading and Children's Literature: Food, taste and material interactions

Ilgım Veryeri Alaca

Consumable Reading and Children's Literature explores how multisensory experiences enhance early childhood literacy practices through material and sensory interactions. Embodied engagements that focus on the gustatory experience and, in particular, the sense of taste are investigated by studying… read more
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Epistemological issue: Bilingual Language Development in Autism

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:1 (2022) vi, 102 pp.
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The Evolution of Pronunciation Teaching and Research: 25 years of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness

Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro

Inspired by Murray Munro and Tracey Derwing’s 1995 seminal study of intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, this book revisits the insights of their original research and presents subsequent studies extending this work to new ways of understanding second language speech. By rejecting… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 121] 2022. v, 234 pp.
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Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference

Edited by Tania Leal, Elena Shimanskaya and Casilde A. Isabelli

This volume brings together empirical studies and keynote addresses presented at the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition conference hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno in 2019. The studies selected for the volume reflect how the latest developments in generative syntactic… read more
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How to Teach an Additional Language: To task or not to task?

Kris Van den Branden

This book provides a comprehensive, research-based account of how people learn a second/foreign language and shows how classroom practice can be organised around research-based principles. In the first part, the book provides up-to-date insights into the cognitive, motivational, and emotional… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 15] 2022. xiii, 292 pp.
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Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods

Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss and YouJin Kim

Written for novice and established scholars alike, Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research Methods is a stand-alone research methods guide from an Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) lens. After offering foundations of conducting ISLA research, the subsequent chapters are… read more
[Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3] 2022. xxiv, 388 pp.
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Pedagogical Realities of Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching

Rosemary Erlam and Constanza Tolosa

This book documents how teachers, working in school foreign language learning contexts and teaching beginner learners of languages other than English, learn about and use tasks. It first presents a pedagogically researched account of how teachers learn about, design and evaluate tasks, after being… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 14] 2022. ix, 282 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language: Cofluencies as sites of accountability, sequentiality, and multimodality

Maximiliane Frobenius

This monograph presents analyses of filled and unfilled pauses, cut-offs, repair, discourse markers and other phenomena often referred to as disfluencies in the context of advanced language learners' PowerPoint presentations. It adopts a multimodal perspective to demonstrate the functions of these… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 332] 2022. ix, 260 pp.
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Research Methods in Vocabulary Studies

Philip Durrant, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, Benjamin Kremmel and Suhad Sonbul

Understanding vocabulary and its role in language learning is one of the central tasks of applied linguistic research. It is also an area that has seen, and continues to see, huge progress in terms of the complexity and diversity of work being done. While this makes for a rich and exciting research… read more
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Second Language Acquisition Theory: The legacy of Professor Michael H. Long

Edited by Alessandro G. Benati and John W. Schwieter

Professor Michael H. Long (1945-2021) was one of the most influential scholars in the field of second language acquisition. This volume presents a set of chapters that honour some of his key contributions in language teaching and learning. Following a bibliometric analysis of the impact of his… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 14] 2022. xxiv, 276 pp.
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Storytelling: How organization of narratives is (not) affected by linguistic skills

Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:4 (2022) v, 164 pp.
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Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications

Edited by Katherine Messenger

Syntactic priming is a naturally-occurring psycholinguistic phenomenon that has been used as an experimental manipulation to great effect: over the last 20 years, syntactic priming research with children of different backgrounds has added to our understanding of the mechanisms and stages of… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 31] 2022. viii, 226 pp.
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Translingual practices entangled with semiotized space and time

Edited by Shaila Sultana and Dariush Izadi

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 45:2 (2022) v, 116 pp.
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Understanding L2 Proficiency: Theoretical and meta-analytic investigations

Edited by Eun Hee Jeon and Yo In'nami

This edited volume is a collection of theoretical and empirical overviews of second language (L2) proficiency based on four skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Each skill is reviewed in terms of how it has been conceptualized, measured, and studied over the years in relation to… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 13] 2022. xi, 388 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha

William Forshaw

Many theories of language acquisition struggle to account for the morphological complexity and diversity of the world’s languages. This book examines the acquisition of complex morphology of Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic language of Northern Australia. It considers semi-naturalistic data from five… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 30] 2021. xvi, 171 pp.
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The Acquisition of Derivational Morphology: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Veronika Mattes, Sabine Sommer-Lolei, Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Wolfgang U. Dressler

This book offers the first systematic study of the early phases in the acquisition of derivational morphology from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. It presents ten empirical longitudinal studies in genealogically and typologically diverse languages (Indo-European, Finno-Ugric,… read more
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The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach

Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland

This book describes the repertoire and uses of referring expressions by French-speaking children and their interlocutors in naturally occurring dialogues at home and at school, in a wide range of communicative situations and activities. Through the lens of an interactionist and dialogical… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 28] 2021. xix, 372 pp.
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Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities

Edited by Mandy R. Menke and Paul A. Malovrh

This book analyzes the construct of advanced proficiency in second language learning by bringing together empirical research from numerous linguistic domains and methodological traditions. Focusing on the dynamic nature of language use, the volume explores diverse manifestations of high-level… read more
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Aptitude-Treatment Interaction in Second Language Learning

Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser

This volume brings together seven empirical studies about aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI), i.e., about how (second language) learners with different aptitudes match or don’t match with different educational treatments; and aptitude-testing interactions, i.e., about how learners with different… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 116] 2021. v, 202 pp.
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Beyond Concordance Lines: Corpora in language education

Edited by Pascual Pérez-Paredes and Geraldine Mark

In over 30 years of data-driven learning (DDL) research, there has been a growing sophistication in the ways we collect, analyse, and put corpus data to use. This volume takes a three-fold perspective on DDL. It first looks at DDL and its role in informing language learning theory and how it might… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 102] 2021. ix, 255 pp.
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Bi-/Multilingualism and the Declining Brain

Edited by Christos Pliatsikas, Ana Inés Ansaldo and Toms Voits

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:4 (2021) v, 158 pp.
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Biological Evolution: More than a metaphor for grammar change

Edited by Maria Rita Manzini

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:1 (2021) v, 121 pp.
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Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition: A language processing perspective

Bronwen Patricia Dyson

Dynamic Variation in Second Language Acquisition makes a cutting-edge contribution to knowledge about how second language learners develop their second language. Drawing comprehensively on Processability Theory’s theoretical understanding that individual variation dynamically interacts with ordered… read more
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Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners

Edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić and Nicola Halenko

This is the first edited collection focusing exclusively on how second language users interpret and engage with the processes of email writing. With chapters written by an international array of scholars, the present volume is dedicated to furthering the study of the growing field of L2 email… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 328] 2021. vii, 258 pp.
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English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights

Edited by Anastazija Kirkova-Naskova, Alice Henderson and Jonás Fouz-González

English Pronunciation Instruction: Research-based insights presents recent research on L2 English pronunciation including pedagogical implications and applications, and seeks to bridge the gulf between pronunciation research and teaching practice. The volume’s 15 chapters cover a range of aspects… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 19] 2021. xix, 388 pp.
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Epistemological issue: Sources of knowledge in L3 acquisition

Edited by Cristina Flores and Neal Snape

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 11:1 (2021) vi, 129 pp.
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Formal Language Theory and its Relevance for Linguistic Analysis

Edited by Diego Gabriel Krivochen

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 3:2 (2021) v, 134 pp.
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Input Processing and Processing Instruction: The acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic

Alessandro G. Benati

Input Processing is a theoretical framework on which the pedagogical paradigm called Processing Instruction is predicated. In this book, new data on the acquisition of Italian and Modern Standard Arabic are presented and analyzed within this framework. Each study in the book explores how input… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 11] 2021. xv, 185 pp.
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L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning: The view from Romance

Edited by Larisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu

This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired… read more
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Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size

I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead

Estimating native-speaker vocabulary size is important for guiding interventions to support native-speaker vocabulary growth and for setting goals for learners of English as a foreign language. Unfortunately, the measurement of native-speaker vocabulary size has been one of the most… read more
[Not in series, 233] 2021. xiii, 160 pp.
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Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning

Edited by Edith Kaan and Theres Grüter

There is ample evidence that language users, including second-language (L2) users, can predict upcoming information during listening and reading. Yet it is still unclear when, how, and why language users engage in prediction, and what the relation is between prediction and learning. This volume… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 12] 2021. xiii, 234 pp.
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Psycholinguistic Approaches to Production and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults and Children

Edited by Leigh B. Fernandez, Kalliopi Katsika, Maialen Iraola Azpiroz and Shanley E.M. Allen

How do production and comprehension processes interact in the bilingual brain during language interaction? Most experimental and theoretical research in psycholinguistics to date has focused on investigating the mechanisms that underlie language production and language comprehension separately.… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 117] 2021. vi, 272 pp.
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Research on EFL learning by young children in Spain

Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo

Special issue of Language Teaching for Young Learners 3:2 (2021) vi, 190 pp.
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Research on Second Language Processing and Processing Instruction: Studies in honor of Bill VanPatten

Edited by Michael J. Leeser, Gregory D. Keating and Wynne Wong

This volume consists of a well-integrated collection of original research articles and theoretical/overview papers on second language (L2) input processing. The primary contributors are former students of Bill VanPatten from the past three decades, and the collection of articles is intended as a… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 62] 2021. viii, 359 pp.
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Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the Lifespan

Edited by Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot

This volume provides a broad coverage of the intersection of sociolinguistic variation and language acquisition. Favoured by the current scientific context where interdisciplinarity is particularly encouraged, the chapters bring to light the complementarity between the social and cognitive… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 26] 2021. vi, 319 pp.
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Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms

Edited by Yuen Yi Lo and Angel M.Y. Lin

This edited volume presents a collection of empirical studies examining the teaching and learning processes in science classrooms in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. It is a timely contribution to the rapidly growing body of CLIL research in response to scholars’ consistent… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 115] 2021. v, 183 pp.
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Translation and plurilingual approaches to language teaching and learning: Challenges and possibilities

Edited by Ángeles Carreres, María Noriega-Sánchez and Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 7:1 (2021) v, 131 pp.
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25 years of Intelligibility, Comprehensibility and Accentedness

Edited by John M. Levis, Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro

Special issue of Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 6:3 (2020) vi, 234 pp.
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Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Edited by Boping Yuan and Yanyu Guo

Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 3:2 (2020) v, 162 pp.
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The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking

Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul

Differential Object marking (DOM), a linguistic phenomenon in which a direct object is morphologically marked for semantic and pragmatic reasons, has attracted the attention of several subfields of linguistics in the past few years. DOM has evolved diachronically in many languages, whereas it has… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 26] 2020. vi, 369 pp.
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Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary

Edited by Stuart Webb

This volume brings together a collection of chapters focused on the learning, testing, and researching of L2 vocabulary by leading international researchers including Paul Nation, Batia Laufer, Frank Boers, Elke Peters, Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia, and Stuart Webb. Questions that… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 109] 2020. v, 234 pp.
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Audiovisual Translation in Applied Linguistics: Educational perspectives

Edited by Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin, Jennifer Lertola and Noa Talaván

In recent years, interest in the application of audiovisual translation (AVT) techniques in language teaching has grown beyond unconnected case studies to create a lively network of methodological intertextuality, cross-references, reviews and continuation of previous trials, ultimately defining a… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 111] 2020. v, 207 pp.
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Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning: Multidisciplinary perspectives

Edited by Fangfang Li, Karen E. Pollock and Robbin Gibb

This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and via different routes, the book aims to paint a comprehensive picture… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 10] 2020. vii, 306 pp.
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Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development

Edited by Gary G. Fogal and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

This volume integrates complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and L2 writing scholarship through a collection of in-depth studies and commentary across a range of writing constructs, learning contexts, and second and foreign languages. The text is arranged thematically across four topics: (i)… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 54] 2020. xvii, 304 pp.
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Corpus Linguistics and Education in Australia

Edited by Alexandra Garcia Murrago, Peter Crosthwaite and Monika Bednarek

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 43:2 (2020) v, 119 pp.
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Cross-theoretical Explorations of Interlocutors and their Individual Differences

Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss

This book examines the role of interlocutors and their individual differences (IDs) in second language (L2) development from four theoretical lenses: the cognitive-interactionist approach, sociocultural theory, the variationist approach, and complex dynamic systems theory. A theoretical overview to… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 53] 2020. xii, 270 pp.
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Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn

Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey

In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c)… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 27] 2020. ix, 330 pp.
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Developing Narrative Comprehension: Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives

Edited by Ute Bohnacker and Natalia Gagarina

Comprehension of texts and understanding of questions is a cornerstone of successful human communication. Whilst reading comprehension has been thoroughly investigated in the last decade, there is surprisingly little research on children’s comprehension of picture stories, particularly for… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 61] 2020. vii, 341 pp.
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Im/politeness and Stage Translation

Edited by Maria Sidiropoulou

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 6:1 (2020) v, 108 pp.
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Language Processing in Advanced Learners of English: A multi-method approach to collocation based on corpus linguistic and experimental data

Marco Schilk

The production and processing of collocations and formulaic language is a field of growing interest in corpus linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In the past this fascinating field at the interface of grammar and the lexicon has been mainly studied based on English native speakers,… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 9] 2020. xvii, 293 pp.
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Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching: A collection of empirical studies

Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch

This book is the first to bring together a collection of recent empirical studies investigating languaging, an important construct first introduced by Swain in 2006 but which has since been deployed in a growing number of L2 studies. The contributing authors include both established and emerging… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 55] 2020. vii, 313 pp.
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Lexical Issues in the Architecture of the Language Faculty

Edited by Andrea Padovan

Special issue of Evolutionary Linguistic Theory 2:1 (2020) v, 111 pp.
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Linguistic Approaches to Portuguese as an Additional Language

Edited by Karina Veronica Molsing, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna and Ana Maria Tramunt Ibaños

This book includes a selection of theoretical and practical accounts of the acquisition of Portuguese from a broad range of linguistic perspectives. This collection is particularly appealing in the broad academic sphere of language acquisition due to the fact that there has yet to be one entirely… read more
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Lost in Transmission: The role of attrition and input in heritage language development

Edited by Bernhard Brehmer and Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Heritage speakers are a fascinating group of bilinguals with a unique profile. Living abroad as immigrants of the second generation, they speak the language of their own speech community (the heritage language) at home, and the societally dominant language in most other domains. What exactly they… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 59] 2020. vii, 276 pp.
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Mental representations in receptive multilingualism

Edited by Bonnie C. Holmes and Michael T. Putnam

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 10:3 (2020) v, 132 pp.
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Studies in Turkish as a Heritage Language

Edited by Fatih Bayram

Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 60] 2020. xiv, 287 pp.
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Styles, Standards and Meaning in Lesser-Studied Languages

Edited by Uri Horesh, Jonathan R. Kasstan and Miriam Meyerhoff

Special issue of Language Ecology 4:1 (2020) v, 130 pp.
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Teacher Development for Immersion and Content-Based Instruction

Edited by Laurent Cammarata and T.J. Ó Ceallaigh

Teacher preparation and professional development endeavors are key drivers of successful immersion/bilingual (I/B) and content-based language education (CBLE) programs across a variety of models. However, research in this critical area is scant and has not to date received the academic attention it… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 110] 2020. vi, 201 pp.
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Teaching and practising interpreting: From traditional to new remote approaches

Edited by Pilar Rodríguez Reina and Estefanía Flores Acuña

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 6:2 (2020) v, 102 pp.
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Tense and Aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner

The expression of temporal relations, notably through tense and aspect, is central in all processes of communication, but commonly perceived and described as a major hurdle for non-native speakers. While this topic has already received considerable attention in the SLA literature, it features less… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 108] 2020. v, 161 pp.
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Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax

Edited by Vincent Torrens

The present volume presents research on language processing and language disorders. Topics range across typical language processing, child developmental language disorders, adult neurodegenerative disorders and neurological bases of typical or impaired brains. The chapters cover a number of… read more
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Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in honour of Bencie Woll

Edited by Gary Morgan

The study of childhood deafness offers researchers many interesting insights into the role of experience and sensory inputs for the development of language and cognition. This volume provides a state of the art look at these questions and how they are being applied in the areas of clinical and… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 25] 2020. xv, 214 pp.
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Writing and Language Learning: Advancing research agendas

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

The current volume aspires to add to previous research on the connection between writing and language learning from a dual perspective: It seeks to reflect current progress in the domain as well as to foster future developments in theory and research. The theoretical postulations contained in Part… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 56] 2020. vii, 432 pp.
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Aptitude-treatment interaction in second language learning

Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser

Special issue of Journal of Second Language Studies 2:2 (2019) v, 200 pp.
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Atypical Language Development in Romance Languages

Edited by Eva Aguilar-Mediavilla, Lucía Buil-Legaz, Raúl López-Penadés, Victor A. Sanchez-Azanza and Daniel Adrover-Roig

This book presents a range of ongoing studies on atypical language development in Romance languages. Despite the steady increase in the number of studies on typical language development, there is still little research about atypical language development, especially in Romance languages. This book… read more
[Not in series, 223] 2019. vi, 257 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Lauren Spradlin and Virginia Valian

The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 57] 2019. viii, 377 pp.
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Corpus-based Approaches to Spoken L2 Production: Evidence from the Trinity Lancaster Corpus

Edited by Vaclav Brezina, Dana Gablasova and Tony McEnery

Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 5:2 (2019) v, 166 pp.
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Current Visions of TAML2: Tense, Aspect and Modality in Second Languages

Edited by Paz González and Tim Diaubalick

Special issue of Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 8:1 (2019) v, 135 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Documentary Linguistics: Working with Communities

Edited by Sumittra Suraratdecha and Toshihide Nakayama

Special issue of Language Ecology 3:2 (2019) v, 122 pp.
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Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability

Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser and Goretti Prieto Botana

This book is unique in bringing together studies on instructed second language acquisition that focus on a common question: “What renders this research particularly relevant to classroom applications, and what are the advantages, challenges, and potential pitfalls of the methodology adopted?” The… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 52] 2019. vi, 219 pp.
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Heritage Languages: A language contact approach

Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken

Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 58] 2019. xix, 302 pp.
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Language and Intercultural Communication Pedagogies in Australian Higher Education

Edited by Paul J. Moore and Adriana Díaz

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 42:2 (2019) v, 100 pp.
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Language learning and interactional experiences in Study Abroad settings

Edited by M. Rafael Salaberry, Kate White and Alfred Rue Burch

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Learner Corpora and Language Teaching

Edited by Sandra Götz and Joybrato Mukherjee

While native corpora and corpus linguistic tools and methods have been used and applied for quite some time in the development of learning and teaching materials, learner corpora are only just beginning to impact the field of language teaching, testing and assessment. This volume helps to close… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 92] 2019. vi, 267 pp.
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Learning the Language of Dentistry: Disciplinary corpora in the teaching of English for Specific Academic Purposes

Peter Crosthwaite and Lisa Cheung

This book explores the affordances of disciplinary corpora for the teaching and learning of the language of dentistry, within the field of English for Specific Academic Purposes (ESAP). We extract disciplinary register features and vocabulary from three key genres of the dentistry discipline… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 93] 2019. xiv, 222 pp.
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Orality: Language and interpreting challenges

Edited by Estefanía Flores Acuña and Pilar Rodríguez Reina

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:3 (2019) v, 113 pp.
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Psycholinguistic approaches to production and comprehension in bilingual adults and children

Edited by Maialen Iraola Azpiroz, Shanley E.M. Allen, Kalliopi Katsika and Leigh B. Fernandez

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:4/5 (2019) vi, 263 pp.
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Representation and Processing in Bilingual Morphology

Edited by Jennifer R. Austin

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9:1 (2019) v, 162 pp.
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Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy: In honour of Peter Skehan

Edited by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian

This volume honours Peter Skehan’s landmark contributions to research in Task-Based Language Teaching. It offers state-of-the-art reviews as well as cutting-edge new research studies, all reflective of key theoretical and methodological issues in current research, such as the role and nature of… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 13] 2019. xxiii, 328 pp.
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Teachability and Learnability across Languages

Edited by Ragnar Arntzen, Gisela Håkansson, Arnstein Hjelde and Jörg-U. Keßler

Teachability and Learnability across Languages addresses key issues in second, foreign and heritage language acquisition, as well as in language teaching. Focusing on a Processability Theory perspective, it brings together empirical studies of language acquisition, language teaching, and language… read more
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Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms

Edited by Yuen Yi Lo and Angel M.Y. Lin

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 7:2 (2019) v, 178 pp.
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Technology-mediated feedback and instruction

Edited by Hossein Nassaji and Eva Kartchava

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170:2 (2019) v, 159 pp.
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Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research: Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Edited by Tania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli

This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of research (Variation in Input, First Language Acquisition, and Second Language… read more
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Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues

Edited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos

This book explores relationships between Processability Theory approaches and other approaches to SLA. It is distinctive in two ways. It offers PT-insiders a way to see connections between their familiar traditions and theories with other ways of working. Parallel to this it offers readers who work… read more
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Assessing L2 Listening: Moving towards authenticity

Gary J. Ockey and Elvis Wagner

This book is relevant for language testers, listening researchers, and oral proficiency teachers, in that it explores four broad themes related to the assessment of L2 listening ability: the use of authentic, real-world spoken texts; the effects of different speech varieties of listening inputs;… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 50] 2018. xvii, 278 pp.
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Audiovisual translation in applied linguistics: Educational perspectives

Edited by Laura Incalcaterra McLoughlin, Jennifer Lertola and Noa Talaván

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 4:1 (2018) v, 202 pp.
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Bilingual Cognition and Language: The state of the science across its subfields

Edited by David Miller, Fatih Bayram, Jason Rothman and Ludovica Serratrice

This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 54] 2018. vi, 403 pp.
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CLIL and Bilingual Education in the Netherlands

Edited by Tessa Mearns and Rick de Graaff

Special issue of Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (2018) vi, 158 pp.
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Code-switching – Experimental Answers to Theoretical Questions: In honor of Kay González-Vilbazo

Edited by Luis López

This volume compiles eight original chapters dedicated to different topics within bilingual grammar and processing with special focus on code-switching. Three main features unify the contributions to this volume. First, they focus on making a contribution to our understanding of the human language… read more
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Community Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Learners: Making connections and building identities

Kelly Lowther Pereira

This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language… read more
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Complement Clauses in Portuguese: Syntax and acquisition

Edited by Ana Lúcia Santos and Anabela Gonçalves

This volume addresses core issues on complement clauses, focusing on Portuguese (European, Brazilian and Mozambican varieties). It contributes to the discussion of complementation, providing an overview of how theoretical syntax and acquisition studies may combine to broaden our knowledge about the… read more
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Critical Reflections on Data in Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Aarnes Gudmestad and Amanda Edmonds

This edited volume offers critical reflections on an essential component of research method in the field of second language acquisition – data. Scholars working on diverse areas (e.g., pragmatics, corrective feedback, phonology) and approaches (e.g., corpus linguistics, concept-oriented analyses,… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 51] 2018. ix, 231 pp.
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The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition

Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert

Prosodic development is increasingly recognized as a fundamental stepping stone in first language acquisition. Prosodic sensitivity starts developing very early, with newborns becoming attuned to the prosodic properties of the ambient language, and it continues to develop during childhood until… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 23] 2018. vi, 368 pp.
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The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish-English Early Bilinguals: Economy and bilingual first language acquisition

Emma Ticio Quesada

This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 56] 2018. xi, 244 pp.
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Foreign Language Education in Multilingual Classrooms

Edited by Andreas Bonnet and Peter Siemund

This volume challenges traditional approaches to foreign language education and proposes to redefine them in our age of international migration and globalization. Foreign language classrooms are no longer populated by monolingual students, but increasingly by multilingual students with highly… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 7] 2018. viii, 423 pp.
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Form-function Relations in Narrative Development: How Anna became a writer

E. Birgitta Svensson

This book provides insights into the development toward narrative competence, and illustrates multifaceted patterns in the developing capacity to create globally coherent narrative texts. The methodology draws from both a psycholinguistic approach to narrative development, systemic functional… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 24] 2018. xi, 297 pp.
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Genre and Disciplinarity

Edited by Tim Moore, Janne Morton and Steve Price

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 41:2 (2018) v, 120 pp.
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Intercultural Perspectives on Research Writing

Edited by Pilar Mur-Dueñas and Jolanta Šinkūnienė

This volume offers a fresh intercultural perspective on the discursive and rhetorical challenges non-Anglophone scholars face while writing and publishing in English for an international readership. The volume presents a wide spectrum of text-based intercultural analyses of academic texts written… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 18] 2018. x, 310 pp.
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Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler

Edited by Lucy Pickering and Vyvyan Evans

Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler comprises a collection of original empirically and theoretically motivated studies at the nexus of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and second language learning. The thematic relationships between these… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 64] 2018. ix, 317 pp.
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Language of Empire, Language of Power

Edited by Kees Versteegh

Special issue of Language Ecology 2:1/2 (2018) v, 146 pp.
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Learning Language through Task Repetition

Edited by Martin Bygate

After more than 20 years of research, this is the first book-length treatment of second language task repetition – the repetition of encounters with a task that involve re-using the same content with the same overall purpose. The topic links task performance with the growing mastery of both the… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 11] 2018. x, 334 pp.
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Meaning and Structure in Second Language Acquisition: In honor of Roumyana Slabakova

Edited by Jacee Cho, Michael Iverson, Tiffany Judy, Tania Leal and Elena Shimanskaya

This volume presents a range of studies testing some of the latest models and hypotheses in the field of second/third language acquisition, such as the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2016), the Scalpel Model (Slabakova, 2017), and the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace & Serratrice, 2009) to… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 55] 2018. xv, 311 pp.
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Methodologies for intra-sentential code-switching research

Edited by Amaia Munarriz-Ibarrola, M. Carmen Parafita Couto and Emma Vanden Wyngaerd

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:1 (2018) v, 161 pp.
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On the Acquisition of the Syntax of Romance

Edited by Anna Gavarró

This volume presents eleven papers on the acquisition of Romance, most of them presented at the Romance Turn VIII, held in Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain, in September 2016. Part I of the volume is devoted to passives and related constructions. The results unveil domains in comprehension in which… read more
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Pragmatic Transfer and Development: Evidence from EFL learners in China

Wei Li

Email has become a ubiquitous medium of communication. It is used amongst people from the same speech community, but also between people from different language and cultural backgrounds. When people communicate, they tend to follow rules of speaking in their native language, termed by scholars as… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 287] 2018. xv, 268 pp.
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Rethinking Linguistic Creativity in Non-native Englishes

Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte

At a time when the paradigm gap (Sridhar & Sridhar 1986) between the EFL and ESL research areas is attracting much scholarly attention, the contributions in the current volume explore this gap from the perspective of linguistic innovations across the two different types of non-native Englishes. In… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 98] 2018. vi, 223 pp.
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Semantics in Language Acquisition

Edited by Kristen Syrett and Sudha Arunachalam

This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 24] 2018. vi, 391 pp.
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Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners

Edited by Maya Hickmann †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa

Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of… read more
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Speaking in a Second Language

Edited by Maria Rosa Alonso Alonso

For millions of individuals all over the world, speaking in a second language is a daily activity. It is therefore important that research in applied linguistics should contribute empirically to the study of second language spoken interaction. The aim of this volume is to make such a contribution… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 17] 2018. xii, 243 pp.
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TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy

Edited by Virginia Samuda, Kris Van den Branden and Martin Bygate

Bringing together experienced classroom researchers and teacher educators from different countries where tasks are playing an influential role in language education, this collected volume critically explores how TBLT research can engage with pedagogy, and how TBLT pedagogy can engage with research.… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 12] 2018. viii, 292 pp.
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Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics

Edited by Naoko Taguchi and YouJin Kim

This volume is the first book-length attempt to bring together the fields of task-based language teaching (TBLT) and second language pragmatics by exploring how the teaching and assessment of pragmatics can be integrated into TBLT. The TBLT-pragmatics connection is illustrated in a variety of… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 10] 2018. x, 312 pp.
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Tense and aspect in Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Robert Fuchs and Valentin Werner

Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 4:2 (2018) v, 158 pp.
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Translanguaging – researchers and practitioners in dialogue

Edited by Lina Adinolfi, Holly Link and Oliver St John

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 4:3 (2018) v, 91 pp.
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Usage-inspired L2 Instruction: Researched pedagogy

Edited by Andrea E. Tyler, Lourdes Ortega, Mariko Uno and Hae In Park

This book presents a set of compelling essays collectively making a persuasive case for why a usage-based perspective on language is fast becoming a leading theoretical framework for investigating second language (L2) learning and the foundation for effective, innovative, engaging pedagogy. Drawing… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 49] 2018. xvii, 324 pp.
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Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation

Edited by Gunther De Vogelaer and Matthias Katerbow

The study of how linguistic variation is acquired is considered a nascent field in both psycho- and sociolinguistics. Within that research context, this book aims at two objectives. First, it wants to help bridging the gap between researchers working on acquisition from different theoretical… read more
[Studies in Language Variation, 20] 2017. vi, 347 pp.
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Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL

Edited by Ana Llinares and Tom Morton

This book represents the first collection of studies on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) which brings together a range of perspectives through which CLIL has been investigated within Applied Linguistics. The book aims to show how the four perspectives of Second Language Acquisition… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 47] 2017. vi, 317 pp.
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Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa: Current practices and future directions

Edited by Atta Gebril

This volume offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of applied research efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This region has not received due attention in the literature and this publication provides a much-needed contribution to the existing body of knowledge. The editor… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 15] 2017. ix, 390 pp.
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Choosing a Grammar: Learning paths and ambiguous evidence in the acquisition of syntax

Isaac Gould

This book investigates the role that ambiguous evidence can play in the acquisition of syntax. To illustrate this, the book introduces a probabilistic learning model for syntactic parameters that learns a grammar of best fit to the learner’s evidence. The model is then applied to a range of… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 238] 2017. ix, 332 pp.
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Complexity Theory and Language Development: In celebration of Diane Larsen-Freeman

Edited by Lourdes Ortega and ZhaoHong Han

This volume is both a state-of-the-art display of current thinking on second language development as a complex system. It is also a tribute to Diane Larsen-Freeman for her decades of intellectual leadership in the academic disciplines of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. The… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 48] 2017. xv, 234 pp.
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Cross-linguistic Influence in Bilingualism: In honor of Aafke Hulk

Edited by Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips and Jeannette Schaeffer

This book presents a current state-of-affairs regarding the study of cross-linguistic influence in bilingualism. Taking Hulk and Müller’s (2000) and Müller and Hulk’s (2001) hypotheses on cross-linguistic influence as a starting point, the book exemplifies the shift from the original focus on… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 52] 2017. vi, 358 pp.
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Developmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven

Edited by Eliane Segers and Paul van den Broek

Research on the development on written language and literacy is inherently multidisciplinary. In this book, leading researchers studying brain, cognition and behavior, come together in revealing how children develop written language and literacy, why they may experience difficulties, and which… read more
[Not in series, 206] 2017. xi, 447 pp.
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Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity

Edited by Hagen Peukert and Ingrid Gogolin

This volume emphasizes the energetic nature of linguistic diversity and its consequences of how we think about language, how it affects the individual, education in school, and urban spaces across the globe. Hence, linguistic diversity reflects the constant state of rapid change prevalent in modern… read more
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Expanding Individual Difference Research in the Interaction Approach: Investigating learners, instructors, and other interlocutors

Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss

Expanding Individual Difference Research in the Interaction Approach: Investigating learners, instructors, and other interlocutors demonstrates why investigating the individual differences of all interlocutors with whom learners interact – including peer and heritage learners, instructors,… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 16] 2017. xii, 327 pp.
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Flourishing in Italian: Positive Psychology approaches to the teaching and learning of Italian in Australia

Edited by Antonia Rubino, Antonella Strambi and Vincenza Tudini

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40:2 (2017) v, 109 pp.
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L3 Syntactic Transfer: Models, new developments and implications

Edited by Tanja Angelovska and Angela Hahn

This book fills an existing gap in the field of third language acquisition (L3A) by bringing together theoretical, empirical, and practical accounts that contribute to informed teaching practices in multilingual classrooms. The volume is organised into three sections that focus on prominent… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 5] 2017. x, 329 pp.
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Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings: Learner corpus and experimental evidence on passive constructions

Verena Möller

Language Acquisition in CLIL and Non-CLIL Settings builds a bridge between Second Language Acquisition and Learner Corpus Research (LCR) methodologies to take the evaluation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) to a new level. The study innovates in two main ways. First, it is based… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 80] 2017. xx, 417 pp.
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Language Impairment in Bilingual Children: State of the art 2017

Edited by Theodoros Marinis, Sharon Armon-Lotem and George Pontikas

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 7:3/4 (2017) v, 211 pp.
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Lexical Polycategoriality: Cross-linguistic, cross-theoretical and language acquisition approaches

Edited by Valentina Vapnarsky and Edy Veneziano

This book presents a collection of chapters on the nature, flexibility and acquisition of lexical categories. These long-debated issues are looked at anew by exploring the hypothesis of lexical polycategoriality –according to which lexical forms are not fully, or univocally, specified for lexical… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 182] 2017. xiii, 479 pp.
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Multidisciplinary Approaches to Bilingualism in the Hispanic and Lusophone World

Edited by Kate Bellamy, Michael W. Child, Paz González, Antje Muntendam and M. Carmen Parafita Couto

This volume offers a multidisciplinary view of cutting-edge research on bilingualism in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking regions, with the aim of building a bridge between sub-fields and approaches that often find themselves isolated from one another. The thirteen contributions in this volume offer… read more
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Nominal Compound Acquisition

Edited by Wolfgang U. Dressler, F. Nihan Ketrez and Marianne Kilani-Schoch

This book offers a systematic study of the emergence and early development of compound nouns in first language acquisition from a cross-linguistic and typological perspective. The language sample is both genealogically and typologically diversified, ranging from languages rich in compounds, such as… read more
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Segmental, prosodic and fluency features in phonetic learner corpora

Edited by Jürgen Trouvain, Frank Zimmerer, Bernd Möbius, Mária Gósy and Anne Bonneau

Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:2 (2017) v, 176 pp.
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Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç

Edited by F. Nihan Ketrez, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek

Language development is driven by multiple factors involving both the individual child and the environments that surround the child. The chapters in this volume highlight several such factors as potential contributors to developmental change, including factors that examine the role of immediate… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 21] 2017. xii, 242 pp.
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Specialised Translation in Spain: Institutional dimensions

Edited by José Santaemilia-Ruiz and Sergio Maruenda-Bataller

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Studies in Chinese and Japanese Language Acquisition: In honor of Stephen Crain

Edited by Mineharu Nakayama, Yi-ching Su and Aijun Huang

This book focuses on important methodological and theoretical issues in Chinese and Japanese L1 and L2 acquisition. All contributions discuss experiments using the Truth Value Judgment Task (TVJT), on three syntactic and semantic domains, binding, scope interaction, and wh- and logical expressions.… read more
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Study Abroad to, from, and within Asia

Edited by John L. Plews and Jane Jackson

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Tense-Aspect-Modality in a Second Language: Contemporary perspectives

Edited by Martin Howard and Pascale Leclercq

Situated within the long-established domain of temporality research in Second Language Acquisition, this book aims to provide an update on recent research directions in the field through a range of papers which explore relatively new territory. Those areas include the expression of modality and… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 50] 2017. vi, 257 pp.
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Theories of Reading Development

Edited by Kate Cain, Donald L. Compton and Rauno K. Parrila

The use of printed words to capture language is one of the most remarkable inventions of humankind, and learning to read them is one of the most remarkable achievements of individuals. In recent decades, how we learn to read and understand printed text has been studied intensely in genetics,… read more
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 15] 2017. vii, 534 pp.
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Understanding Second Language Processing: A focus on Processability Theory

Bronwen Patricia Dyson and Gisela Håkansson

This book aims to help researchers and teachers interested in language processing and Processability Theory (PT) to understand this theory and its applications. PT is an influential account of second language processing which hypothesizes that, due to the architecture of language processing,… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 4] 2017. xi, 211 pp.
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Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence

Edited by Ruth A. Berman

The volume addresses developing knowledge and use of Hebrew from the dual perspective of typologically specific factors and of shared cross-linguistic trends, aimed at providing an overview of acquisition in a single language from infancy to adolescence while also shedding light on key issues in… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 19] 2016. xvii, 404 pp.
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The Acquisition and Processing of Spanish and Portuguese Morphosyntax: Theoretical and experimental issues

Edited by Rachel Klassen, Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Joanne Markle LaMontagne and Almudena Basanta y Romero-Valdespino

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The Acquisition of L2 Mandarin Prosody: From experimental studies to pedagogical practice

Chunsheng Yang

This book examines the acquisition of L2 Mandarin prosody, a less explored area in SLA. While acknowledging that tone acquisition is one of the most important aspects in acquiring L2 Mandarin phonology, the book demonstrates that phrase- and utterance-level prosody is equally important.… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 1] 2016. xviii, 175 pp.
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The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood

Edited by Belma Haznedar and F. Nihan Ketrez

The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood presents recent research on the nature of language acquisition by typically and atypically developing monolingual and bilingual Turkish-speaking children. The book summarises the most recent research findings on the acquisition of Turkish in childhood, with a… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 20] 2016. viii, 416 pp.
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Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language

Edited by Diego Pascual y Cabo

Bringing together contributions from some of the leading experts in the field of Spanish as a Heritage Language, this volume aims to provide an in-depth understanding of current and emerging trends in research and praxis. To this end, the volume is divided into three thematic units. The first unit… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 49] 2016. ix, 353 pp.
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Aging and Bilingualism

Edited by Ellen Bialystok and Margot D. Sullivan

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:1/2 (2016) vi, 226 pp.
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Bilingualism and Executive Function: An interdisciplinary approach

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina and Lauren Spradlin

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:5 (2016) vi, 213 pp.
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Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition

Edited by Gisela Granena, Daniel O. Jackson and Yucel Yilmaz

Cognitive Individual Differences in Second Language Processing and Acquisition contains 14 chapters that focus on the role of cognitive IDs in L2 learning and processing. The book brings together theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of cognitive IDs, as well as empirical studies… read more
[Bilingual Processing and Acquisition, 3] 2016. vi, 353 pp.
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Cross-linguistic Transfer in Reading in Multilingual Contexts

Edited by Elena Zaretsky and Mila Schwartz

This book represents concurrent attempts of multiple researchers to address the issue of cross-linguistic transfer in literacy. It includes broad spectrum of languages and reflects a new generation of conceptualizations of cross-linguistic transfer, offering a different level of complexity by… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 89] 2016. ix, 183 pp.
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Developing, Modelling and Assessing Second Languages

Edited by Jörg-U. Keßler, Anke Lenzing and Mathias Liebner

This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It engages with current issues in both theory… read more
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching, 5] 2016. xviii, 244 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 16 (2016)

Edited by Sarah Ann Liszka, Pascale Leclercq, Marion Tellier and Georges Daniel Véronique

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 16] 2016. ix, 210 pp.
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Emotion in Multilingual Interaction

Edited by Matthew T. Prior and Gabriele Kasper

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies that investigates how multilingual speakers construct emotions in their talk as a joint discursive practice. The contributions draw on the well established, converging traditions of conversation analysis, discursive psychology,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 266] 2016. vii, 326 pp.
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Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage

Ulrike Stange-Hundsdörfer

Emotive Interjections in British English: A corpus-based study on variation in acquisition, function and usage constitutes the first in-depth corpus-based study on the use of emotive interjections in Present Day British English. In a novel approach, it systematically distinguishes between child and… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 75] 2016. xxi, 221 pp.
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The Idiom Principle and L1 Influence: A contrastive learner-corpus study of delexical verb + noun collocations

Ying Wang

This book examines delexical verb + noun collocations such as make a decision, give rise to and take care of in Swedish and Chinese learner English. Using a methodological framework that combines learner corpus research with a contrastive perspective, the study is one of the very few in the field… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 77] 2016. xii, 249 pp.
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Input-based Tasks in Foreign Language Instruction for Young Learners

Natsuko Shintani

The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context where traditional teaching approaches are entrenched. The book… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 9] 2016. xi, 199 pp.
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Insights in Translation for Specific Purposes: Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2:1 (2016)

Edited by Antonella d’Angelis, Estefanía Flores Acuña and Francisco Núñez-Roman

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2:1 (2016) v, 169 pp.
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Integrating Chinese Linguistic Research and Language Teaching and Learning

Edited by Hongyin Tao

Linguistic research and language teaching have generally been viewed as two separate types of academic endeavor. While linguists have been preoccupied with pattern finding and theory building, language teachers often encounter issues that are not readily addressed by theoretical linguistic research. read more
[Studies in Chinese Language and Discourse, 7] 2016. xviii, 239 pp.
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Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters: Studies in honour of Juana M. Liceras

Edited by Anahí Alba de la Fuente, Elena Valenzuela and Cristina Martínez Sanz

The chapters in this volume take different approaches to the exploration of language acquisition processes in various populations (monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition, L2 acquisition) and address issues in syntax, morphology, pragmatics, language processing and interface phenomena.… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 51] 2016. vi, 305 pp.
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Language Periphery: Monocollocable words in English, Italian, German and Czech

Compiled and edited by František Čermák, Jan Čermák, Zora Obstová and Marie Vachková

A full-length study of monocollocable words, i.e. words whose usage is severely restricted to one or a few combinations only (such as English ado in without much/further ado), that brings together corpus-based data from the four languages along with studies analysing, along both general and… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 74] 2016. vi, 108 pp. + index
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Language-Learner Computer Interactions: Theory, methodology and CALL applications

Edited by Catherine Caws and Marie-Josée Hamel

This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical discussions and applications in order to illustrate the way in which LCI can… read more
[Language Studies, Science and Engineering, 2] 2016. xv, 257 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Linguistic Innovations: Rethinking linguistic creativity in non-native Englishes

Edited by Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte

Special issue of International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2:2 (2016) v, 222 pp.
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Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy

Edited by Jenny Thomson and Linda Jarmulowicz

The intersection of sound processing, speech production, and literacy is a promising and growing area of study. This volume showcases recent empirical research exploring the association between linguistic rhythm and reading. Linguistic rhythm does not easily assume a single definition, which is… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 17] 2016. xiv, 286 pp.
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Literacy Acquisition in School in the Context of Migration and Multilingualism: A binational survey

Inken Sürig, Yazgül Şimşek, Christoph Schroeder and Anja Boness

This book presents the outcomes of a multi-methodical investigation of the processes of literacy acquisition. The focus is on mono- and bilingual first- and seventh-graders in schools in socially underprivileged areas of two major cities in Turkey and Germany. By means of extensive analyses of… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 5] 2016. xii, 297 pp.
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Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing

I.S.P. Nation

Word lists lie at the heart of good vocabulary course design, the development of graded materials for extensive listening and extensive reading, research on vocabulary load, and vocabulary test development. This book has been written for vocabulary researchers and curriculum designers to describe… read more
[Not in series, 208] 2016. xiv, 210 pp.
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Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning: Pedagogical potential and research agenda

Edited by Masatoshi Sato and Susan Ballinger

This volume represents the first collection of empirical studies focusing on peer interaction for L2 learning. These studies aim to unveil the impact of mediating variables such as task type, mode of interaction, and social relationships on learners’ interactional behaviors and language development… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 45] 2016. vii, 399 pp.
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Postgraduate Writing in a Globalised World

Edited by Emmaline Lear and Elke Stracke

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 39:2 (2016) v, 98 pp.
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Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments

Edited by Michael Burke, Olivia Fialho and Sonia Zyngier

Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments is not just about what takes place in literary classrooms. Settings do have a strong influence on student learning both directly and indirectly. These spaces may include the home, the workplace, science centers, libraries, that is,… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 24] 2016. xix, 309 pp.
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Second Language Acquisition of Turkish

Edited by Ayşe Gürel

This book brings together the findings of current studies on the second language (L2) acquisition of Turkish, an Altaic language with more than 140 million native speakers around the world. There is now a growing interest in learning and teaching Turkish as an L2, both in and outside Turkey.… read more
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Second-language Discourse in the Digital World: Linguistic and social practices in and beyond the networked classroom

Ilona Vandergriff

Second-language Discourse in the Digital World illustrates a new, practice-driven approach to technology in second-language (L2) learning that begins with what L2 users do when they connect with others online. With its rich set of examples from a number of different languages and a variety of… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 46] 2016. xiii, 270 pp.
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Spanish Learner Corpus Research: Current trends and future perspectives

Edited by Margarita Alonso-Ramos

The aim of this book is to present a comprehensive picture of the current state of Spanish learner corpus research (SLCR), which makes it unique, since no other monograph has focused on collecting research dealing with learner corpora of any language other than English. In addition to an… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 78] 2016. vi, 337 pp.
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Starting Over – The Language Development in Internationally-Adopted Children

Edited by Fred Genesee and Audrey Delcenserie

Internationally-adopted children are a unique population of language learners. They discontinue acquisition of their birth language when they are adopted by families that speak other languages. Their unique language learning history raises important practical, clinical and theoretical issues.… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 18] 2016. vii, 208 pp.
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Translating Creolization

Edited by Desrine Bogle, Ian Craig and Jason F. Siegel

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2:2 (2016) v, 106 pp.
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World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition: Insights from Southeast Asian Englishes

Michael Percillier

Bridging the gap between the fields of World Englishes and Second Language Acquisition, this volume offers an in-depth comparative analysis of two postcolonial varieties of English (Singapore and Malaysian English) and neighbouring Indonesian learner English in order to examine the Outer/Expanding… read more
[Varieties of English Around the World, G58] 2016. xviii, 205 pp.
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The Acquisition of Italian: Morphosyntax and its interfaces in different modes of acquisition

Adriana Belletti and Maria Teresa Guasti

A major contribution to the study of language acquisition and language development inspired by theoretical linguistics has been made by research on the acquisition of Italian syntax. This book offers an updated overview of results from theory-driven experimental and corpus-based research on the… read more
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The Acquisition of Reference

Edited by Ludovica Serratrice and Shanley E.M. Allen

Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children’s major linguistic achievements. The 13 chapters of this volume bring together a wealth of information on the acquisition of referential processes in… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 15] 2015. vi, 339 pp.
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The Acquisition of Spanish in Understudied Language Pairings

Edited by Tiffany Judy and Silvia Perpiñán

By examining the acquisition of Spanish in combination with languages other than English (Arabic, Basque, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Nahuatl, Quechua, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish), this volume advances novel data pertinent to the field’s understanding of acquisition of Spanish… read more
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The Acquisition of the Present

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

This is the first edited volume that tackles the acquisition of the present (tense, aspect, temporality), an under-researched area, particularly compared to the acquisition of past temporality. The first two chapters focus on the L1 acquisition of English from the perspective of the Aspect… read more
[Not in series, 196] 2015. xvi, 347 pp.
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Domains and Directions in the Development of TBLT: A decade of plenaries from the international conference

Edited by Martin Bygate

This volume brings together contemporary position statements and research reviews which were originally presented as Plenary Addresses to the Biennial International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching, between 2005 and 2013. It thus assembles up-to-date reflections, critiques, and… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 8] 2015. xxiv, 325 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 15 (2015)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Kevin McManus, Norbert Vanek and Danijela Trenkic

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 15] 2015. ix, 163 pp.
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Elicited Metaphor Analysis in Educational Discourse

Edited by Wan Wan and Graham Low

The ability to recognise, discuss and evaluate one’s educational beliefs and working practices in metaphoric terms has for several years been seen as a highly valuable tool for increasing self-awareness, facilitating learning (or teaching), and/or predicting behaviour. This is the first edited book… read more
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Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages

Edited by Patrick Rebuschat

Implicit learning is a fundamental feature of human cognition. Many essential skills, including language comprehension and production, intuitive decision making, and social interaction, are largely dependent on implicit (unconscious) knowledge. Given its relevance, it is not surprising that the… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 48] 2015. xxii, 489 pp.
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Interaction and Second Language Development: A Vygotskian perspective

Rémi A. van Compernolle

This volume addresses the role of communicative interaction in driving various dimensions of second language development from the perspective of Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. Emphasizing the dialectical relationship between the external-social world and individual mental functioning, the… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 44] 2015. xi, 215 pp.
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness

Edited by Marina Terkourafi

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness brings together the work of linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, and second language experts in order to provide readers with a snapshot of the possibilities for studying im/politeness in the 21st century. The volume is organized along… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 14] 2015. xi, 279 pp.
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Language Proficiency in Native and Non-native Speakers: Theory and research

Jan H. Hulstijn

This book, written for both seasoned and novice researchers, presents a theory of what is called Basic and Higher Language Cognition (BLC and HLC), a theory aimed at making some fundamental issues concerning first and second language learning and bilingualism (more) empirical. The first part of the… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 41] 2015. xi, 195 pp.
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Learner Corpora in Language Testing and Assessment

Edited by Marcus Callies and Sandra Götz

The aim of this volume is to highlight the benefits and potential of using learner corpora for the testing and assessment of L2 proficiency in both speaking and writing, reflecting the growing importance of learner corpora in applied linguistics and second language acquisition research. Identifying… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 70] 2015. vi, 220 pp.
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Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning

Joe Barcroft

This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to lexical input processing (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 43] 2015. xi, 194 pp.
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Pronunciation Fundamentals: Evidence-based perspectives for L2 teaching and research

Tracey M. Derwing and Murray J. Munro

The emergence of empirical approaches to L2 pronunciation research and teaching is a powerful fourth wave in the history of the field. Authored by two leading proponents of evidence-based instruction, this volume surveys both foundational and cutting-edge empirical work and pinpoints its… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 42] 2015. xiii, 208 pp.
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Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research

Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki

This volume is dedicated to the field of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), addressing important research questions, including: the interrelation of genetic and cognitive profiles of individuals with SLI; the comorbidity issue and clinical boundaries between SLI and other developmental disorders;… read more
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Structures, Strategies and Beyond: Studies in honour of Adriana Belletti

Edited by Elisa Di Domenico, Cornelia Hamann and Simona Matteini

The volume contains 18 contributions from senior and junior scholars covering core issues within the theoretical investigation of the architecture and the mechanisms of the faculty of language, with particular emphasis on the computational component. They all pursue a comparative approach,… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 223] 2015. xxvi, 421 pp.
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Teachers’ Plurilingual Identities in Transnational Contexts

Edited by Clea Schmidt and Antoinette Gagné

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 38:3 (2015) 98 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya

Pedro Mateo Pedro

Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q’anjob’al Maya. Q’anjob’al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suffixes. The subject… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 14] 2015. xiii, 144 pp.
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Theoretical and Methodological Developments in Processability Theory

Edited by Kristof Baten, Aafke Buyl, Katja Lochtman and Mieke Van Herreweghe

This edited volume is devoted to expanding the theoretical basis of Processability Theory, a theory of second language development that combines insights in the way speakers generate language and store their language knowledge to predict, describe and explain developmental sequences (Pienemann… read more
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Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development

Edited by Hagen Peukert

This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents… read more
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Trilingual Language Acquisition: Contextual factors influencing active trilingualism in early childhood

Sarah Chevalier

This book examines the language development of two children from the ages of two till four, who are growing up exposed to English, Swiss German and French. Its aim is to ascertain the importance of different environmental factors in fostering active trilingualism. These factors include the quantity… read more
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The Acquisition of French as a Second Language: New developmental perspectives

Edited by Christina Lindqvist and Camilla Bardel

Within the field of second language acquisition, interest in the acquisition of French as a second language has a long-standing tradition, especially in the European context. The aim of this book is to offer a synthesis of current research within this area. It contains contributions from different… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 62] 2014. v, 168 pp.
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Communication in Autism

Edited by Joanne Arciuli and Jon Brock

Communication in Autism adopts a multidisciplinary approach to explore one of the most common developmental disorders associated with communication impairment. Perhaps the most fascinating thing about communication in autism is that variation is as extreme as it could possibly be. While some… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 11] 2014. vi, 275 pp.
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Development of Pragmatic and Discourse Skills in Chinese-Speaking Children

Edited by Zhu Hua and Lixian Jin

For many years, studies of the development of pragmatic and discourse skills in young children have predominantly focused on English and other European languages, as with the field of child language development in general. This volume, originally published in Chinese Language and Discourse 3:1… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 60] 2014. v, 134 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 14 (2014)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Ineke Vedder and Jan H. Hulstijn

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 14] 2014. x, 261 pp.
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Exploring Second Language Creative Writing: Beyond Babel

Edited by Dan Disney

Exploring Second Language Creative Writing continues the work of stabilizing the emerging Creative Writing (SL) discipline. In unique ways, each essay in this book seeks to redefine a tripartite relationship between language acquisition, literatures, and identity. All essays extend B.B. Kachru’s… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 19] 2014. v, 157 pp.
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Input and Experience in Bilingual Development

Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis

Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus of much recent research on childhood bilingualism. This volume… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 13] 2014. ix, 204 pp.
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Interlanguage: Forty years later

Edited by ZhaoHong Han and Elaine Tarone

Few works in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) can endure multiple reads, but Selinker's (1972) "Interlanguage" is a clear exception. Written at the inception of the field, this paper delineates a disciplinary scope; asks penetrating questions; advances daring hypotheses; and proposes… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 39] 2014. vii, 255 pp.
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Language Acquisition in Study Abroad and Formal Instruction Contexts

Edited by Carmen Pérez-Vidal

This publication constitutes essential reading for academics, teachers and language policy makers wanting to understand, plan, and implement an educational language program involving learner mobility. The book provides data and analyses from a long-term program of research on study abroad (the SALA… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 13] 2014. vi, 329 pp.
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Language Immersion Education: A research agenda for 2015 and beyond

Edited by Diane J. Tedick and Siv Björklund

Special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 2:2 (2014) vi, 168 pp.
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Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark

Edited by Inbal Arnon, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia

Understanding how communicative goals impact and drive the learning process has been a long-standing issue in the field of language acquisition. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the social and pragmatic aspects of language learning: the way interaction shapes what and how children learn.… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 12] 2014. xi, 358 pp.
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Learning Chinese in Diasporic Communities: Many pathways to being Chinese

Edited by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen and Andy Hancock

This book brings together new theoretical perspectives and bilingual education models from different sociopolitical and cultural contexts across the globe in order to address the importance of sociocultural, educational and linguistic environments that create, enhance or limit the ways in which… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 12] 2014. xv, 243 pp.
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Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing: Applying a corpus-based study to language teaching

Danica Salazar

This book presents an investigation of lexical bundles in native and non-native scientific writing in English, whose aim is to produce a frequency-derived, statistically- and qualitatively-refined list of the most pedagogically useful lexical bundles in scientific prose: one that can be sorted and… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 65] 2014. ix, 212 pp.
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Linguistic Diversity and Social Inclusion in Australia

Edited by Ingrid Piller

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 37:3 (2014) 99 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Motivation and Foreign Language Learning: From theory to practice

Edited by David Lasagabaster, Aintzane Doiz and Juan Manuel Sierra

Motivation is a key aspect of second language learning. There is no doubt that abstract models are basic to gain theoretical insights into motivation; however, teachers and researchers demand comprehensible explanations for motivation that can help them to improve their everyday teaching and… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 40] 2014. viii, 190 pp.
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Parsing to Learn

Edited by Laurent Dekydtspotter and Claire Renaud

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 4:2 (2014) vi, 152pp.
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Pedagogical Grammar

Casey Keck and YouJin Kim

This book provides a comprehensive overview of pedagogical grammar research and explores its implications for the teaching of grammar in second language classrooms. Drawing on several research domains (e.g., corpus linguistics, task-based language teaching) and a number of theoretical orientations… read more
[Not in series, 190] 2014. ix, 245 pp.
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Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen

Edited by Ashley W. Farris-Trimble and Jessica A. Barlow

Any theory of phonology must be able to account for the acquisition and development of a phonological system, and studying acquisition often leads to reciprocal advances in the theory. This volume explores the link between phonological theory and linguistic development from a variety of angles,… read more
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Plurilingual Education: Policies – practices – language development

Edited by Patrick Grommes and Adelheid Hu

Plurilingual communication is common practice in most urban areas. Societal domains such as business and science nowadays see themselves as international, and plurilingual communication is the rule rather than the exception. But how do other players in critical domains of modern societies, and more… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 3] 2014. viii, 260 pp.
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Pragmatic Competence and Relevance

Elly Ifantidou

This book probes into under-researched issues in L2 pragmatics. Firstly, pragmatic competence, pragmatic awareness and metapragmatic awareness are re-defined and clearly distinguished on theoretical grounds. Secondly, pragmatic competence and its manifestations are evaluated on empirical grounds by… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 245] 2014. x, 228 pp.
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Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition

Edited by Danielle Matthews

Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally. From very early on, children demonstrate a strong desire to understand and be understood that motivates the acquisition of lexicon and grammar and enables ever more effective communication. In… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 10] 2014. vi, 394 pp.
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Processing Perspectives on Task Performance

Edited by Peter Skehan

Understanding how second language task-based performance can be raised is vital for progress with task-based approaches to instruction. The chapters in this volume all attempt to advance this understanding, and do so within a viewpoint which assumes limited attentional capacities and accounts for… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 5] 2014. xii, 266 pp.
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Recent Advances in Automatic Readability Assessment and Text Simplification

Edited by Thomas François and Delphine Bernhard

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 165:2 (2014) vi, 243 pp.
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Task-Based Language Learning – Insights from and for L2 Writing

Edited by Heidi Byrnes and Rosa M. Manchón

The book seeks to enlarge the theoretical scope, research agenda, and practices associated with TBLT in a two-way dynamic, by exploring how insights from writing might reconfigure our understanding of tasks and, in turn, how work associated with TBLT might benefit the learning and teaching of… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 7] 2014. xi, 312 pp.
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Technology-mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks

Edited by Marta González-Lloret and Lourdes Ortega

This volume contributes to the development and advancement of TBLT as a research domain by investigating the intersection between tasks and technology from a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., educational, cognitive, sociocultural) and by gathering empirical findings on the design and… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 6] 2014. vi, 336 pp.
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The Acquisition of Ergativity

Edited by Edith L. Bavin and Sabine Stoll

Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from… read more
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The Acquisition of the German Case System by Foreign Language Learners

Kristof Baten

This is the first book on the acquisition of the German case system by foreign language learners. It explores how learners in their interlanguage progress from the total absence to the presence of a case system. This development is characterized by an evolvement from marking the argument’s position… read more
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Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition

Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a field of inquiry that has increased in importance since the 1960s. Currently, researchers adopt multiple perspectives in the analysis of learner language, all of them providing different but complementary answers to the understanding of oral and written data… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 9] 2013. xiii, 265 pp.
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The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition: The Multiple Constraints Hypothesis

Anke Lenzing

Shortlisted for the Christopher Brumfit Award in Applied Linguistics.The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition focuses on the acquisition process of early L2 learners. It is based on the following key hypothesis: the initial mental grammatical system of L2… read more
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 13 (2013)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Anna Ewert, Miroslaw Pawlak and Magdalena Wrembel

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 13] 2013. viii, 250 pp.
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Errors and Disfluencies in Spoken Corpora

Edited by Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Sylvie De Cock

The papers brought together in this volume illustrate how spoken corpora (be they native or learner corpora) can provide insights into various aspects of errors and disfluencies such as pauses and discourse markers. They show, among others, that such phenomena can be influenced by factors like… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 52] 2013. v, 172 pp.
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First Language Attrition

Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke

This volume consists of a collection of papers that focus on structural/grammatical aspects of the process of first language attrition. It presents an overview of current research, methodological issues and important questions regarding first language attrition. In particular, it addresses the two… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 48] 2013. v, 159 pp.
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Fluency in Native and Nonnative English Speech

Sandra Götz

This book takes a new and holistic approach to fluency in English speech and differentiates between productive, perceptive, and nonverbal fluency. The in-depth corpus-based description of productive fluency points out major differences of how fluency is established in native and nonnative speech.… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 53] 2013. xxiii, 238 pp.
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Generative Linguistics and Acquisition: Studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams

Edited by Misha Becker, John Grinstead and Jason Rothman

The articles of this collection cover a wide range of formal syntactic and semantic phenomena. The focus is on a broad array of developmental syntactic phenomena, including topics in Argument Structure and Clause-Internal Syntax, the DP Domain and Learning Theory. In total, the contents of the… read more
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Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic perspectives

Edited by Dominique Bassano-Bonhommo and Maya Hickmann †

Grammaticalization and lexicalization are at the heart of first language acquisition. Understanding how these processes begin and evolve is a major challenge for current theories and has implications for applications in teaching or clinical contexts. This volume examines the relative weight of… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 50] 2013. v, 187 pp.
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Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism

Edited by John W. Schwieter

This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in second language (L2) acquisition and bilingualism and discusses their implications for L2 pedagogy. The book is organized into three sections that focus on prominent linguistic and cognitive theories and together provide… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 38] 2013. xiii, 335 pp.
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Linguistic Superdiversity in Urban Areas: Research approaches

Edited by Joana Duarte and Ingrid Gogolin

Rapidly increasing migration flows contribute to the development of multiple forms of social and cultural differentiation in urban areas – or to ‘super-diversity’. Language diversity is an important part of the resulting new social and cultural constellations. Although linguistic diversity is not a… read more
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Linguistics for Intercultural Education

Edited by Fred Dervin and Anthony J. Liddicoat

The issue of intercultural learning has been tackled, amongst others, in the fields of education, language education and applied linguistics. In spite of the extensive literature on the subject, there is still much which needs to be done to address the ways in which linguistics itself can… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 33] 2013. vi, 201 pp.
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Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education

Edited by Peter Siemund, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz and Julia Davydova

This state-of-the-art volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of current topics and research foci in the areas of linguistic diversity and migration-induced multilingualism and aims to lay the foundations for interdisciplinary work and the development of a common methodological framework for… read more
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The Second Language Acquisition of French Tense, Aspect, Mood and Modality

Dalila Ayoun

Temporal-aspectual systems have a great potential of informing our understanding of the developing competence of second language learners. So far, the vast majority of empirical studies investigating L2 acquisition have largely focused on past temporality, neglecting the acquisition of the… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 10] 2013. xiii, 252 pp.
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Second Language Interaction in Diverse Educational Contexts

Edited by Kim McDonough and Alison Mackey

This volume brings together empirical research that explores interaction in a wide range of educational settings. It includes work that takes a cognitive, brain-based approach to studying interaction, as well as studies that take a social, contextual perspective. Interaction is defined quite… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 34] 2013. xiv, 318 pp.
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Sensitive periods, language aptitude, and ultimate L2 attainment

Edited by Gisela Granena and Mike Long

Research on second language acquisition (SLA) has identified language aptitude and age of onset (AO), i.e., the age at which learners are first meaningfully exposed to the L2, as robust predictors of rate of classroom language learning and level of ultimate L2 attainment in naturalistic settings,… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 35] 2013. xv, 295 pp.
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Social and Cultural Aspects of Language Learning in Study Abroad

Edited by Celeste Kinginger

The papers in this volume offer a sampling of contemporary efforts to update the portrayal of study abroad in the applied linguistics literature through attention to its social and cultural aspects. The volume illustrates diversification of theory and method, refinement of approaches to social… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 37] 2013. ix, 344 pp.
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Teaching Creole-Speaking Children: Issues, concerns and resolutions for the classroom

Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 36:3 (2013) 131 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Technology in Interlanguage Pragmatics Research and Teaching

Edited by Naoko Taguchi and Julie M. Sykes

Technology-informed approaches to L2 research and teaching have prompted great interest by both researchers and practitioners alike. This book highlights the relationship between digitally-mediated technologies and second language pragmatics by presenting exemplary applications of technology for… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 36] 2013. viii, 276 pp.
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Understanding Interfaces: Second language acquisition and first language attrition of Spanish subject realization and word order variation

Laura Domínguez

By combining theoretical analysis and empirical investigation, this monograph investigates the status of interfaces in Minimalist linguistic theory, second language acquisition and native language attrition. Two major questions are currently under debate: (1) what exactly makes a linguistic… read more
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Vocabulary Knowledge: Human ratings and automated measures

Edited by Scott Jarvis and Michael Daller

Language researchers and practitioners often adopt tools and techniques without testing whether they really work as they should. This is understandable because most scholars do not have the time or expertise to properly evaluate the usefulness of all instruments, measures, and methods they need. It… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 47] 2013. viii, 220 pp.
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Writing Assessment in Higher Education

Edited by Bert Weltens, Jos Hornikx, Wander Lowie, Petra Poelmans and Rebecca L. Present-Thomas

Special issue of Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics 2:1 (2013) ix, 132 pp.
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Corpus-Informed Research and Learning in ESP: Issues and applications

Edited by Alex Boulton, Shirley Carter-Thomas and Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet

These specially-commissioned studies cover corpus-informed approaches to researching, teaching and learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP). The corpora used range from very large published corpora to small tailor-made collections of written and spoken text, as well as parallel and contrastive… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 52] 2012. ix, 306 pp.
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Describing School Achievement in Asian Languages for Diverse Learner Groups

Edited by Angela Scarino and Catherine Elder

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 35:3 (2012) 147 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Developmental and Crosslinguistic Perspectives in Learner Corpus Research

Edited by Yukio Tono, Yuji Kawaguchi and Makoto Minegishi

This volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research and developments on the use of learner corpora perceived from developmental and crosslinguistic perspectives. The book is divided into two parts. The eleven contributions of Part I investigate the development of English language… read more
[Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 4] 2012. vi, 361 pp.
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Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA

Edited by Alex Housen, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder

Research into complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) as basic dimensions of second language performance, proficiency and development has received increased attention in SLA. However, the larger picture in this field of research is often obscured by the breadth of scope, multiple objectives and lack… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 32] 2012. xii, 305 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 12 (2012)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Christina Lindqvist, Camilla Bardel and Niclas Abrahamsson

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 12] 2012. viii, 217 pp.
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Gesture and Multimodal Development

Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti

We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 39] 2012. xii, 223 pp.
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Interlanguage Request Modification

Edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis and Helen Woodfield

This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to interlanguage request modification. It is a collection of empirical studies carried out by an international array of scholars which provides insights for researchers, graduate students and language teachers on patterns of interlanguage… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 217] 2012. ix, 318 pp.
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Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies

Edited by Kurt Braunmüller and Christoph Gabriel

The 25 contributions of this volume represent a selection from the more than 120 papers originally presented at the International Conference on “Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies” (MIMS), held in Hamburg (October 2010) and organized by the Collaborative Research Center… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 13] 2012. xiv, 474 pp.
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Multilingualism

Larissa Aronin and David Singleton

This book is an authoritative account of multilingualism in the present era, a phenomenon affecting a vast number of communities, thousands of languages and millions of language users. The book’s focus is specifically on the knowledge and use of multiple languages, but its treatment of the topic is… read more
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Phonological Variation in Rural Jamaican Schools

Véronique Lacoste

This book investigates variation in the classroom speech of 7-year-old children who are learning Standard Jamaican English as a second language variety in rural Jamaica. For sociolinguists and second language/dialect researchers interested in the acquisition and use of sociolinguistic variables, an… read more
[Creole Language Library, 42] 2012. xiv, 293 pp.
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Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues

Edited by J. César Félix-Brasdefer and Dale Koike

Departing from Schneider and Barron (2008), representing the emerging field of Variational Pragmatics, this volume examines pragmatic variation focusing on methods utilized to collect and analyze data in a variety of first (L1) and second (L2) language contexts. The objectives are to: (1) examine… read more
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Second Language Acquisition Abroad: The LDS Missionary Experience

Edited by Lynne Hansen

This volume brings together for the first time a collection of studies devoted to missionary language learning and retention. Introductory chapters provide historical perspectives on this population and on language teaching philosophy and practice in the LDS tradition. The empirical studies which… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 45] 2012. x, 268 pp.
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Syntax, Semantics and Acquisition of Multiple Interrogatives: Who wants what?

Lydia Grebenyova

Multiple interrogatives, questions with multiple wh-phrases (e.g. Who bought what?), have long presented analytical challenges for linguistic theory. This monograph presents a new theoretical and experimental study of this construction. The theoretical findings concern the interaction between… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 195] 2012. xviii, 191 pp.
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Task-Based Language Teaching from the Teachers' Perspective: Insights from New Zealand

Martin East

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) is being encouraged as part of a major overhaul of the entire school languages curriculum in New Zealand. However, teachers often struggle with understanding what TBLT is, and how to make TBLT work in classrooms. Using the stories that emerged from a series of… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 3] 2012. xix, 259 pp.
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Task-Based Language Teaching in Foreign Language Contexts: Research and implementation

Edited by Ali Shehadeh and Christine A. Coombe

This volume extends the Task-Based Language Teaching: Issues, Research and Practice books series by deliberately exploring the potential of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in a range of EFL contexts. It is specifically devoted to providing empirical accounts about how TBLT practice is being… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 4] 2012. xix, 364 pp.
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Third Language Acquisition in Adulthood

Edited by Jennifer Cabrelli, Suzanne Flynn and Jason Rothman

In recent years, researchers have acknowledged that the study of third language acquisition cannot simply be viewed as an extension of the study of bilingualism, and the present volume’s authors agree that a point of departure that embraces the unique properties that differentiate L2 acquisition… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 46] 2012. vii, 312 pp.
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The Transmission of Anglo-Norman: Language history and language acquisition

Richard P. Ingham

This investigation contributes to issues in the study of second language transmission by considering the well-documented historical case of Anglo-Norman. Within a few generations of the establishment of this variety, its phonology diverged sharply from that of continental French, yet core syntactic… read more
[Language Faculty and Beyond, 9] 2012. xii, 179 pp.
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The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function

Edited by Evan Kidd

Explaining the acquisition and processing of relative clauses has long challenged psycholinguistics researchers. The current volume presents a collection of chapters that consider the acquisition of relative clauses with a particular focus on function, typology, and language processing. A diverse… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 8] 2011. viii, 244 pp.
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Applying priming methods to L2 learning, teaching and research: Insights from Psycholinguistics

Edited by Pavel Trofimovich and Kim McDonough

This volume features a collection of empirical studies which use priming methods to explore the comprehension, production, and acquisition of second language (L2) phonology, syntax, and lexicon. The term priming refers to the phenomenon in which prior exposure to specific language forms or meanings… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 30] 2011. ix, 254 pp.
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Australian Languages: A challenge for applied linguistics

Edited by Michael Walsh

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 34:3 (2011) 107 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Bilingualism in the USA: The case of the Chicano-Latino community

Fredric Field

This text provides an overview of bi- and multilingualism as a worldwide phenomenon. It features comprehensive discussions of many of the linguistic, social, political, and educational issues found in an increasingly multilingual nation and world. To this end, the book takes the Chicano-Latino… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 44] 2011. xviii, 320 pp.
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The Development of Grammar: Language acquisition and diachronic change. In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel

Edited by Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11] 2011. viii, 414 pp.
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A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development: Methods and techniques

Edited by Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Kees de Bot and Wander Lowie

Dynamic systems theory, a general theory of change and development, offers a new way to study first and second language development and requires a new set of tools for analysis of empirical data. After a brief introduction to the theory, this book, co-authored by several leading scholars in the… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 29] 2011. ix, 211 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 11 (2011)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Gabriele Pallotti and Camilla Bettoni

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 11] 2011. vi, 272 pp.
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Emergent Literacy: Children's books from 0 to 3

Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer

This edited volume constitutes the first serious, sustained examination of the study of children’s books for children aged from 0 to 3 with contributions by scholars working in different domains and attempting to assess the recognition of the role and influence of children’s literature on the… read more
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Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language

Edited by Inbal Arnon and Eve V. Clark

Are all children exposed to the same linguistic input, and do they follow the same route in acquisition? The answer is no: The language that children hear differs even within a social class or cultural setting, as do the paths individual children take. The linguistic signal itself is also variable,… read more
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First language attrition/L'attrition de la langue première

Edited by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 2:2 (2011) v, 157 pp.
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Internal and External Factors in Child Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Aafke Hulk and Theodoros Marinis

Special issue of Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:3 (2011) v, 139 pp.
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Korean Honorifics and Politeness in Second Language Learning

Lucien Brown

This book investigates the ways that advanced speakers of Korean as a second language perceive, use and learn the complexities of the Korean honorifics system. Despite their advanced proficiency in Korean, the study shows that the honorifics use of these speakers diverges in crucial ways from… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 206] 2011. xiv, 311 pp.
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Language for Specific Purposes

Edited by Antoon De Rycker, Kris Buyse and Lieve Vangehuchten

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 162 (2011) ca. 146 pp.
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Languages in Business Education: Introduction

Edited by Lieven Buysse, Karoline Claes and Erwin Snauwaert

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 161 (2011) ca. 123 pp.
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Learning-to-Write and Writing-to-Learn in an Additional Language

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

This book is a pioneer attempt to bridge the gap between the fields of second language acquisition (SLA) and second and foreign language (L2) writing. Its ultimate aim is to advance our understanding of written language learning by compiling a collection of theoretical meta-reflections and… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 31] 2011. xii, 263 pp.
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Making Requests by Chinese EFL Learners

Vincent X. Wang

Requests, a speech act people frequently use to perform everyday social interactions, have attracted particular attention in politeness theories, pragmatics, and second language acquisition. This book looks at request behaviours in a significant EFL population – Chinese-speaking learners of English. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 207] 2011. xv, 199 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies: Developmental patterns of Mexican students

Elizabeth Flores-Salgado

The purpose of this research is to analyse the pragmatic development of language groups at different proficiency levels and to investigate the relationship between interlanguage pragmatics and grammatical competence. For this study, 36 native Spanish speaking EFL learners at different proficiency… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 212] 2011. xi, 263 pp.
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Second Language Task Complexity: Researching the Cognition Hypothesis of language learning and performance

Edited by Peter Robinson

Understanding how task complexity affects second language learning, interaction and spoken and written performance is essential to informed decisions about task design and sequencing in TBLT programs. The chapters in this volume all examine evidence for claims of the Cognition Hypothesis that… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 2] 2011. xii, 345 pp.
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Studying Processability Theory: An Introductory Textbook

Edited by Manfred Pienemann and Jörg-U. Keßler

Processability Theory (PT) as developed by Manfred Pienemann is a prominent theory of second language acquisition. PT serves as a framework for a wide range of research covering issues, including L2 processing, interlanguage variation, typological effects on SLA, L1 transfer, pidgins and creoles,… read more
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Technology Enhanced Learning and Cognition

Edited by Itiel E. Dror

The use of technology in learning has increased dramatically. Training and education is now utilizing and almost integrated with the World Wide Web, podcasts, mobile and distant learning, interactive videos, serious games, and a whole range of e-learning. However, has such technology enhanced… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 27] 2011. ix, 265 pp.
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Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research. Second edition

Graeme Keith Porte

Designed for students of applied linguistics and second language acquisition on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is a set or recommended textbook on more than a hundred undergraduate and postgraduate courses worldwide. read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 28] 2010. xxv, 307 pp.
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Authoring the Dialogic Self: Gender, agency and language practices

Gergana Vitanova

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on key socio-cultural aspects of second language learning. Building on Bakhtin’s philosophy of language and the self, it examines the complex intersections among gender, culture, and agency in the everyday discursive practices of immigrants.… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 8] 2010. vi, 175 pp.
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Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition: Inside the learner's mind

Edited by Martin Pütz and Laura Sicola

This edited volume represents state of the field research linking cognition and second language acquisition, reflecting the experience of the learner when engaged in noticing, input/output processing, retrieval, and even attrition of target forms. Contributions are both theoretical and practical,… read more
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 10 (2010)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Martin Howard, Muiris Ó Laoire and David Singleton

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 10] 2010. vi, 281 pp.
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Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research

Edited by Elma Blom and Sharon Unsworth

Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research provides students and researchers interested in language acquisition with comprehensible and practical information on the most frequently used methods in language acquisition research. It includes contributions on first and child/adult second… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 27] 2010. vii, 292 pp.
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Gestures in Language Development

Edited by Marianne Gullberg and Kees de Bot

Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 28] 2010. viii, 139 pp.
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Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems

Edited by Michèle Kail and Maya Hickmann †

How and why do all children learn language? Why do some have difficulties while others are early language learners? What are the consequences of early bilingualism? Is it possible to reach native-like competence in a foreign language? Although we still cannot fully answer these questions, research… read more
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Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms

Edited by Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Tarja Nikula and Ute Smit

This volume explores a highly topical issue in second and foreign language education: the spreading practice in mainstream education to teach content subjects through a foreign language. CLIL has been enthusiastically embraced as a language enrichment measure in many contexts and finally research… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 7] 2010. x, 295 pp.
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Lexical Pragmatics and Theory of Mind: The acquisition of connectives

Sandrine Zufferey

The concept of theory of mind (ToM), a hot topic in cognitive psychology for the past twenty-five years, has gained increasing importance in the fields of linguistics and pragmatics. However, even though the relationship between ToM and verbal communication is now recognized, the extent, causality… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 201] 2010. ix, 192 pp.
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Poetry as Research: Exploring second language poetry writing

David I. Hanauer

Poetry as Research develops an approach that allows poetry writing to be used as a research method for exploring questions relating to second language learners and more broadly for studies within the humanities and social sciences. The book investigates the characteristics of poetry writing and… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 9] 2010. xiii, 164 pp.
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Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing

Edited by Bill VanPatten and Jill Jegerski

This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e. read more
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Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World

Edited by Graham Low, Zazie Todd, Alice Deignan and Lynne Cameron

It has become increasingly clear that metaphor needs to be explored in terms of the social and discourse context in which it is used, especially where the aim is to address real-world problems. The notion of 'real world' metaphor research has been developed to describe this important area of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 26] 2010. xii, 385 pp.
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Sociocognitive Approaches to Second Language Pedagogy

Edited by Bronwen Patricia Dyson

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 33:3 (2010) 140 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Acquisition of French: The development of inflectional morphology and syntax in L1 acquisition, bilingualism, and L2 acquisition

Philippe Prévost

This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations — first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment — within the… read more
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The Acquisition of Word Order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy

Marit Westergaard

Within a new model of language acquisition, this book discusses verb second (V2) word order in situations where there is variation in the input. While traditional generative accounts consider V2 to be a parameter, this study shows that, in many languages, this word order is dependent on fine… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 145] 2009. xii, 245 pp.
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Clearing the Air: Applied linguistic perspectives on aviation communication

Edited by John Read and Ute Knoch

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 32:2 (2009) 102 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Connected Words: Word associations and second language vocabulary acquisition

Paul Meara

What words come into your head when you think of SUN? For native English speakers, the most common responses are MOON, SHINE and HOT, and about half of all native speaker responses to SUN are covered by these three words. L2 English speakers are much less obliging, and produce patterns of… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 24] 2009. xvii, 174 pp.
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Corpora and Language Teaching

Edited by Karin Aijmer

The articles in this edited volume represent a broad coverage of areas. They discuss the role and effectiveness of corpora and corpus-linguistic techniques for language teaching but also deal with broader issues such as the relationship between corpora and second language teaching and how the… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 33] 2009. viii, 232 pp.
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Discourses on Language and Integration: Critical perspectives on language testing regimes in Europe

Edited by Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson

One of the most pressing issues in contemporary European societies is the need to promote integration and social inclusion in the context of rapidly increasing migration. A particular challenge confronting national governments is how to accommodate speakers of an ever-increasing number of languages… read more
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 9 (2009)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Georges Daniel Véronique, Anna Nilsson and Marion Tellier

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 9] 2009. vi, 295 pp.
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Electronic Discourse in Language Learning and Language Teaching

Edited by Lee B. Abraham and Lawrence Williams

New technologies are constantly transforming traditional notions of language use and literacy in online communication environments. While previous research has provided a foundation for understanding the use of new technologies in instructed second language environments, few studies have… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 25] 2009. x, 346 pp.
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The Exploration of Multilingualism: Development of research on L3, multilingualism and multiple language acquisition

Edited by Larissa Aronin and Britta Hufeisen

This volume offers an ontogenetic perspective on research on L3, multilingualism and multiple languages acquisition and a conceptually updated picture of multilingualism studies and third/multiple language acquisition studies. The contributions by prominent scholars of multilingualism present… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 6] 2009. vii, 167 pp.

Formulaic Language: Volume 1: Distribution and historical change, Volume 2: Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations. 2 vols. set

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This two volume collection on formulaic language is among the first ones in the field. The authors of the present book represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed are similarly diverse, including languages such as Arabic, Japanese,… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 82-83] 2009. 724 pp.
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Formulaic Language: Volume 2. Acquisition, loss, psychological reality, and functional explanations

Edited by Roberta Corrigan, Edith A. Moravcsik, Hamid Ouali and Kathleen Wheatley

This book is the second of the two-volume collection of papers on formulaic language. The collection is among the first in the field. The authors of the papers in this volume represent a diverse group of international scholars in linguistics and psychology. The language data analyzed come from a… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 83] 2009. xxiv, 361 pp.
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Hispanic Child Languages: Typical and impaired development

Edited by John Grinstead

This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are… read more
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Information Highlighting in Advanced Learner English: The syntax–pragmatics interface in second language acquisition

Marcus Callies

This book presents the first detailed and comprehensive study of information highlighting in advanced learner language, echoing the increasing interest in questions of near-native competence in SLA research and contributing to the description of advanced interlanguages. It examines the production… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 186] 2009. xviii, 293 pp.
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The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech

Stein Bråten

The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech illustrates how recent findings about primary intersubjectivity, participant perception and mirror neurons afford a new understanding of children’s nature, dialogue and language. Based on recent infancy research and the mirror… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 76] 2009. xxii, 351 pp.
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Minimal Answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese

Ana Lúcia Santos

This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the acquisition of the syntax-discourse interface. It provides evidence that children acquiring European Portuguese have a very early ability to spontaneously produce VP ellipsis as answers to yes-no questions. It is also argued that the… read more
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Multilingual, Globalizing Asia: Implications for policy and education. AILA Review, Volume 22

Edited by Lisa Lim and Ee-Ling Low

This special issue has Asia as its focus, springboarding primarily from the multilingual reality that defines South and Southeast Asia, but also including the regions of East Asia normally considered more monolingual. The collection of articles addresses the tensions involved in how the countries… read more
[AILA Review, 22] 2009. iv, 130 pp.
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Representational Deficits in SLA: Studies in honor of Roger Hawkins

Edited by Neal Snape, Yan-kit Ingrid Leung and Michael Sharwood Smith

The main focus of this collection is to explore the question of “representational deficits” in second language acquisition, currently a much-debated topic. The volume is intended as a tribute to Roger Hawkins, a leading scholar in generative second language acquisition, whose research has been… read more
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Second Language Acquisition of Articles: Empirical findings and theoretical implications

Edited by María del Pilar García Mayo and Roger Hawkins

The studies in this collection address a topic that has recently become the focus of considerable interest in second language acquisition (SLA) research: the acquisition of articles. Languages appear to vary in whether they have articles (English, German, Norwegian do, but Chinese, Japanese,… read more
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Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution

Edited by T. Givón and Masayoshi Shibatani

Complex hierarchic syntax is considered one of the hallmarks of human language. The highest level of syntactic complexity, recursive-embedded clauses, has been singled out by some for a special status as the apex of the uniquely-human language faculty – evolutionary but somehow immune to adaptive… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 85] 2009. vi, 553 pp.
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Task-Based Language Teaching: A reader

Edited by Kris Van den Branden, Martin Bygate and John M. Norris

Over the past two decades, task-based language teaching (TBLT) has gained considerable momentum in the field of language education. This volume presents a collection of 20 reprinted articles and chapters representative of work that appeared during that period. It introduces readers­ – graduate… read more
[Task-Based Language Teaching, 1] 2009. ix, 512 pp.
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Toddler and Parent Interaction: The organisation of gaze, pointing and vocalisation

Anna Filipi

This book provides a microanalysis of the interactions between four children and their parents starting when the children were aged 9 to 13 months and ending when they were 18 months old. It tracks development as an issue for and of interaction. In so doing, it uncovers the details of the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 192] 2009. xiii, 268 pp.
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Bilingualism and Identity: Spanish at the crossroads with other languages

Edited by Mercedes Niño-Murcia and Jason Rothman

Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 37] 2008. vii, 365 pp.
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Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives

Edited by Heike Behrens

Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 6] 2008. xxx, 234 pp.
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Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective

Edited by Belma Haznedar and Elena Gavruseva

This volume presents recent generative research on the nature of grammars of child second language (L2) acquirers -- a learner population whose exposure to an L2 occurs between the ages of 4 to 8. The main goal is to define child L2 acquisition in relation to other types of acquisition such as… read more
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Developmental Psycholinguistics: On-line methods in children’s language processing

Edited by Irina A. Sekerina, Eva M. Fernández and Harald Clahsen

How do infants and young children coordinate information in real time to arrive at sentence meaning from the words and structure of the sentence and from the nonlinguistic context? This volume introduces readers to an emerging field of research, experimental developmental psycholinguistics, and to… read more
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 44] 2008. xviii, 190 pp.
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The Didactics of Audiovisual Translation

Edited by Jorge Díaz-Cintas

While complementing other volumes in the BTL series in its exploration of the state of the art of translator training, this collection of essays is solely focused on audiovisual translation, one of the most complex and dynamic areas of the translation discipline. The book offers an easily… read more
[Benjamins Translation Library, 77] 2008. xii, 263 pp.
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ESP in European Higher Education: Integrating language and content

Edited by Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez and Christine A. Räisänen

The Bologna Reform has been implemented in a large part of the European Union and it is time to take a short pause to reflect over some of the lessons learned up to now. The aim of this book is to share experiences and reflections on English for Specific Purposes pedagogy in Western European higher… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 4] 2008. vi, 285 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 8 (2008)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Florence Myles and Annabelle David

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 8] 2008. 311 pp.
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Early Language Development: Bridging brain and behaviour

Edited by Angela D. Friederici and Guillaume Thierry

This book establishes a dialog between experimental psychology and electrophysiology in the study of infant language development. On the one hand, traditional methods of investigation into language development have reached a high level of refinement despite being confined to observing infants’… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 5] 2008. xiv, 263 pp.
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English as an International Language: Challenges and possibilities

Edited by Michael Clyne and Farzad Sharifian †

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 31:3 (2008) 98 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax: Perspectives across languages and learners

Edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, María Pilar Larrañaga and John Clibbens

The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with large numbers of speakers… read more
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Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor

Silvina Montrul

Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 39] 2008. x, 312 pp.
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Learner and Teacher Autonomy: Concepts, realities, and response

Edited by Terry Lamb and Hayo Reinders

This edited volume offers a cohesive account of recent developments across the world in the field of learner and teacher autonomy in languages education. Drawing on the work of eminent researchers of language learning and teaching, it explores at both conceptual and practical levels issues related… read more
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 1] 2008. vii, 286 pp.
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Learning and Teaching L2 Writing

Guest-edited by Daphne van Weijen, Elke Van Steendam and Gert Rijlaarsdam

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 156 (2008) iii, 351 pp.
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Phonology and Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Jette G. Hansen Edwards and Mary L. Zampini

This volume is a collection of 13 chapters, each devoted to a particular issue that is crucial to our understanding of the way learners acquire, learn, and use an L2 sound system. In addition, it spans both theory and application in L2 phonology. The book is divided into three parts, with each… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 36] 2008. vi, 380 pp.
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Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Child's play?

Edited by Jenefer Philp, Rhonda Oliver and Alison Mackey

This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners. Characteristics of children’s cognitive, emotional, and social development distinguish their experiences from those of adult L2 learners,… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 23] 2008. viii, 334 pp.
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Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations

Edited by Carolina Plaza-Pust and Esperanza Morales-López

This volume provides a unique cross-disciplinary perspective on the external ecological and internal psycholinguistic factors that determine sign bilingualism, its development and maintenance at the individual and societal levels. Multiple aspects concerning the dynamics of contact situations… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 38] 2008. xvi, 389 pp.
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Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Anne E. Baker and Bencie Woll

How children acquire a sign language and the stages of sign language development are extremely important topics in sign linguistics and deaf education, with studies in this field enabling assessment of an individual child’s communicative skills in comparison to others. In order to do research in… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 14] 2008. xi, 167 pp.
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Studies in French Applied Linguistics

Edited by Dalila Ayoun

Studies in French Applied Linguistics invites the reader to adopt a broad perspective on applied linguistics, illustrating the fascinating multifaceted work researchers are conducted in so many various, inter-connected subfields. The five chapters of the first part are dedicated to the first and… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 21] 2008. xiii, 400 pp.
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The Acquisition of Diminutives: A cross-linguistic perspective

Edited by Ineta Savickienė and Wolfgang U. Dressler

This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These… read more
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Applied Cultural Linguistics: Implications for second language learning and intercultural communication

Edited by Farzad Sharifian † and Gary B. Palmer

Research in the relatively new field of cultural linguistics has implications for second language learning and intercultural communication. This volume is the first of its kind to bring together studies that examine the implications for applied programs of research in these domains. Collectively,… read more
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Child Second Language Acquisition: A bi-directional study of English and Italian tense-aspect morphology

Sonia Rocca

As one of the first books in child second language acquisition (SLA), this book focuses on the core area of tense-aspect morphology, reporting on three L1-Italian children learning L2 English vs. three L1-English children learning L2 Italian. An innovative longitudinal/bidirectional research… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 35] 2007. xvi, 240 pp.
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Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse

Edited by Jochen Rehbein, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch

In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 5] 2007. viii, 465 pp.
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Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms

Christiane Dalton-Puffer

The label CLIL stands for classrooms where a foreign language (English) is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. This book provides a first in-depth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are embodied in such CLIL classrooms. It examines teacher and student talk at… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 20] 2007. xii, 330 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 7 (2007)

Edited by Leah Roberts, Ayşe Gürel, Sibel Tatar and Leyla Martı

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 7] 2007. iv, 207 pp.
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La centration sur l'apprenant en didactique du FLE: En hommage à Jean Binon

Sous la direction de Piet Desmet et Serge Verlinde

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 154 (2007) ca. 158 pp.
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Language Attrition: Theoretical perspectives

Edited by Barbara Köpke, Monika S. Schmid, Merel Keijzer and Susan Dostert

This collection of articles provides theoretical foundations and perspectives for language attrition research. Its purpose is to enable investigations of L1 attrition to avail themselves more fully and more fundamentally of the theoretical frameworks that have been formulated with respect to SLA… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 33] 2007. vii, 258 pp.
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Language Experience in Second Language Speech Learning: In honor of James Emil Flege

Edited by Ocke-Schwen Bohn and Murray J. Munro

This stimulating collection of articles from leading international researchers provides a state-of-the-art overview of core issues in second language speech perception and production. Aimed at phoneticians, speech scientists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, and pedagogical specialists, it… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 17] 2007. xvii, 406 pp.
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Language as Action

Edited by Maurice Nevile and Johanna Rendle-Short

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 30:3 (2007) 108 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Learning and Teaching Languages Through Content: A counterbalanced approach

Roy Lyster

Based on a synthesis of classroom SLA research that has helped to shape evolving perspectives of content-based instruction since the introduction of immersion programs in Montreal more than 40 years ago, this book presents an updated perspective on integrating language and content in ways that… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 18] 2007. xii, 172 pp.
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Memory, Psychology and Second Language Learning

Mick Randall

This book explores the contributions that cognitive linguistics and psychology, including neuropsychology, have made to the understanding of the way that second languages are processed and learnt. It examines areas of phonology, word recognition and semantics, examining ‘bottom-up’ decoding… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 19] 2007. x, 220 pp.
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On Being Moved: From mirror neurons to empathy

Edited by Stein Bråten

In this collective volume the origins, neurosocial support, and therapeutic implications of (pre)verbal intersubjectivity are examined with a focus on implications of the discovery of mirror neurons. Entailing a paradigmatic revolution in the intersection of developmental, social and neural… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 68] 2007. x, 333 pp.
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Receptive Multilingualism: Linguistic analyses, language policies and didactic concepts

Edited by Jan D. ten Thije and Ludger Zeevaert

Receptive multilingualism refers to the language constellation in which interlocutors use their respective mother tongue while speaking to each other. Since the mid-nineties receptive multilingualism is promoted by the European commission on par with other possibilities of increasing the mobility… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 6] 2007. x, 328 pp.
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The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages

Edited by Vincent Torrens and Linda Escobar

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretical approach based on the Principles and Parameters theory. They favour, discuss and sometimes challenge traditional explanations of first… read more
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Address from a World Perspective

Edited by Heinz L. Kretzenbacher, Catrin Norrby and Jane Warren

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 29:2 (2006) 126 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 6 (2006)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Marta Medved Krajnovic and Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 6] 2006. iv, 261 pp.
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Goals for Academic Writing: ESL students and their instructors

Edited by Alister Cumming

This book documents the results of a multi-year project that investigated the goals for writing improvement among 45 students and their instructors in intensive courses of English as a Second Language (ESL) then, a year later, in academic programs at two Canadian universities. The researchers… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 15] 2006. xii, 204 pp.
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Heritage Language Development: Focus on East Asian Immigrants

Edited by Kimi Kondo-Brown

This collection of studies investigates the individual, micro-psychological, and macro-societal factors that promote or discourage the development of child and young adult heritage language learners’ spoken and written skills in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). The research… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 32] 2006. x, 282 pp.
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Inference and Generalizability in Applied Linguistics: Multiple perspectives

Edited by Micheline Chalhoub-Deville, Carol A. Chapelle and Patricia A. Duff

Concepts such as dependability/generalization and inferences are dealt with implicitly or explicitly in any research undertaken in applied linguistics. This volume provides a well-balanced and cross-disciplinary perspective on how researchers conceptualize inferences about learner acquisition and… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 12] 2006. vi, 248 pp.
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Inquiries in Linguistic Development: In honor of Lydia White

Edited by Roumyana Slabakova, Silvina Montrul and Philippe Prévost

The focus of this collection is on important themes in L2 acquisition, the nature of grammatical systems developed by language learners in L1 acquisition, third language acquisition, and bilingualism and language attrition. The chapters present an interesting mix of theoretical contributions,… read more
[Not in series, 133] 2006. vi, 363 pp.
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Interfaces in Multilingualism: Acquisition and representation

Edited by Conxita Lleó

Modeling of linguistic knowledge generally involves the compartmentalization of grammar into phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic components. These components are not isolated but interacting components. It is the resulting interfaces between grammatical… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 4] 2006. xiv, 284 pp.
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L2 Acquisition and Creole Genesis: Dialogues

Edited by Claire Lefebvre, Lydia White and Christine Jourdan

In this volume, second language (L2) acquisition researchers and creolists engage in a dialogue, focusing on processes at work in L2 acquisition and creole genesis. The volume opens with an overview of the relationship between L2 acquisition and pidgins/creoles (Siegel). The first group of papers… read more
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Metadiscourse in L1 and L2 English

Annelie Ädel

The pervasive phenomenon of metadiscourse – commentary on the ongoing discourse – is beginning to take its rightful place among the major topics of discourse studies. This book makes simultaneous contributions to the theory of metadiscourse, corpus-based methods of studying such phenomena, and our… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 24] 2006. x, 243 pp.
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Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition: In honor of Bonnie D. Schwartz

Edited by Sharon Unsworth, Teresa Parodi, Antonella Sorace and Martha Young-Scholten

The main focus of generative language development research in recent decades has been the logical problem of language acquisition - how learners go beyond the input to acquire complex linguistic knowledge. This collection deals with the complementary issue of the developmental problem of language… read more
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 39] 2006. viii, 222 pp.
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Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition: In Japanese Context

Edited by Asako Yoshitomi, Tae Umino and Masashi Negishi

The selected contributions of this volume focus on various issues related to second language pedagogy and second language acquisition in the Japanese context. Part I covers such topics as discourse pragmatics and cross-cultural pragmatics in language teaching; the instruction of conversation… read more
[Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics, 4] 2006. vi, 274 pp.
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Synthesizing Research on Language Learning and Teaching

Edited by John M. Norris and Lourdes Ortega

This volume presents the first collection of work on research synthesis in applied linguistics. It introduces readers­ ­to a cutting-edge approach for reviewing and summarizing exactly what accumulated research has to say about theoretical and practical subjects. John Norris and Lourdes Ortega… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 13] 2006. xiv, 349 pp.
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Task-Based Language Teaching

Edited by Kris Van den Branden and Machteld Verhelst

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 152 (2006) ca. 160 pp.
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Teacher Education in CALL

Edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy

This volume addresses the need for a more considered and systematic approach to teacher education and training in Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), in all its forms: Technology Enhanced Language Learning, Network-Based Language Learning, Information and Communication Technologies for… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 14] 2006. xii, 354 pp.
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The Acquisition of Swahili

Kamil Deen

This monograph is the first study of the acquisition of Swahili as a first language. It focuses on the acquisition of inflectional affixes, with a particular emphasis on subject agreement and tense. Other inflectional affixes are also investigated, including object agreement and mood. The study… read more
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Collocations in a Learner Corpus

Nadja Nesselhauf

Collocations are both pervasive in language and difficult for language learners, even at an advanced level. In this book, these difficulties are for the first time comprehensively investigated. On the basis of a learner corpus, idiosyncratic collocation use by learners is uncovered, the building… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 14] 2005. xii, 331 pp.
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Cross-Linguistic Aspects of Processability Theory

Edited by Manfred Pienemann

Seven years ago Manfred Pienemann proposed a novel psycholinguistic theory of language development, Processability Theory (PT). This volume examines the typological plausibility of PT. Focusing on the acquisition of Arabic, Chinese and Japanese the authors demonstrate the capacity of PT to make… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 30] 2005. xiv, 303 pp.
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Developmental Theory and Language Disorders

Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller

The chapters in this volume arise from presentations at a unique conference on typical and atypical language development held in Madison, USA in 2002. This joint meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, and the Symposium for Research in Child Language Disorders… read more
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Discourse Markers in Native and Non-native English Discourse

Simone Müller

While discourse markers have been examined in some detail, little is known about their usage by non-native speakers. This book provides valuable insights into the functions of four discourse markers (so, well, you know and like) in native and non-native English discourse, adding to both discourse… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 138] 2005. xviii, 290 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 5 (2005)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, María del Pilar García Mayo and Jasone Cenoz

The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more
[EUROSLA Yearbook, 5] 2005. iv, 281 pp.
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Exploring Corpora for ESP Learning

Laura Gavioli

This book investigates the effects of corpus work on the process of foreign language learning in ESP settings. It suggests that observing learners at work with corpus data can stimulate discussion and re-thinking of the pedagogical implications of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 21] 2005. xi, 176 pp.
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Fossilized Second Language Grammars: The acquisition of grammatical gender

Florencia Franceschina

This monograph is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the mechanisms and causes of successful and unsuccessful adult second language acquisition.Couched within a generative framework, the study explores how a learner’s first language and the age at which they acquire their second… read more
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Planning and Task Performance in a Second Language

Edited by Rod Ellis

The last decade has seen a growing body of research investigating various aspects of L2 learners’ performance of tasks. This book focuses on one task implementation variable: planning. It considers theories of how opportunities to plan a task affect performance and tests claims derived from these… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 11] 2005. viii, 313 pp.
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Progressives, Patterns, Pedagogy: A corpus-driven approach to English progressive forms, functions, contexts and didactics

Ute Römer-Barron

This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 18] 2005. xiv + 328 pp.
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Tense and Aspect in Romance Languages: Theoretical and applied perspectives

Edited by Dalila Ayoun and M. Rafael Salaberry

This volume presents a state-of-the-art descriptive and explanatory analysis of the second language development of Romance tense-aspect systems. It contains new experimental data from adult French, Catalan, Portuguese learners, and Italian children learners. Standing research questions are… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 29] 2005. x, 318 pp.
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UG and External Systems: Language, brain and computation

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

This book explores the interaction of the grammar with the external systems, conceptual-intentional and sensori-motor. The papers in the Language section include configurational analyses of the interface properties of depictives, clitic clusters, imperatives, conditionals, clefts, as well as… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 75] 2005. xviii, 398 pp.
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The Acquisition of French in Different Contexts: Focus on functional categories

Edited by Philippe Prévost and Johanne Paradis

This volume is a collection of studies by some of the foremost researchers of French acquisition in the generative framework. It provides a unique perspective on cross-learner comparative research in that each chapter examines the development of one component of the grammar (functional categories)… read more
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The Acquisition of Spanish: Morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual L1 acquisition and adult L2 acquisition

Silvina Montrul

This is the first book on the acquisition of Spanish that provides a state-of-the-art comprehensive overview of Spanish morphosyntactic development in monolingual and bilingual situations. Its content is organized around key grammatical themes that form the empirical base of research in generative… read more
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The Acquisition of Swedish Grammar

Edited by Gunlög Josefsson, Christer Platzack and Gisela Håkansson

This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language. Some of the thematic chapters present original, unpublished data: on the acquisition of tense, on the range and frequency of different word order patterns in early child Swedish, related to the input, meaning the… read more
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Corpora and Language Learners

Edited by Guy Aston, Silvia Bernardini and Dominic Stewart

Corpus-aided language pedagogy is one of the central application areas of corpus methodologies, and a test bed for theories of language and learning. This volume provides an overview of current trends, offering methodological and theoretical position statements along with results from empirical… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 17] 2004. vi, 312 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 4 (2004)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Michael Sharwood Smith, Antonella Sorace and Mitsuhiko Ota

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 4] 2004. iv, 274 pp.
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First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary perspectives on methodological issues

Edited by Monika S. Schmid, Barbara Köpke, Merel Keijzer and Lina Weilemar

This volume provides a state-of-the-art treatment of research on language attrition, the non-pathological loss of a language through lack of exposure. It combines a review of past and present research with in-depth treatments of specific theoretical and methodological issues and reports on… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 28] 2004. x, 378 pp.
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Formulaic Sequences: Acquisition, processing and use

Edited by Norbert Schmitt

Formulaic sequences (FS) are now recognized as an essential element of language use. However, research on FS has generally been limited to a focus on description, or on the place of FS in L1 acquisition. This volume opens new directions in FS research, concentrating on how FS are acquired and… read more
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How to Use Corpora in Language Teaching

Edited by John McH. Sinclair

After decades of being overlooked, corpus evidence is becoming an important component of the teaching and learning of languages. Above all, the profession needs guidance in the practicalities of using corpora, interpreting the results and applying them to the problems and opportunities of the… read more
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 12] 2004. viii, 307 pp.
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Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence

Edited by Ruth A. Berman

This volume brings together work by scholars with backgrounds in linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, education, and language pathology. As such, the book adds psycholinguistic and crosslinguistic perspectives to the clinical and classroom approaches that have dominated the… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 3] 2004. xiv, 308 pp.
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A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism

Michel Paradis

This volume is the outcome of 25 years of research into the neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. In addition to reviewing the world literature and providing a state-of-the-art account, including a critical assessment of the bilingual neuroimaging studies, it proposes a set of hypotheses about… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 18] 2004. viii, 299 pp.
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Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition

Geoff Jordan

Recently, many SLA researchers have adopted a postmodernist approach which challenges the assumption that SLA research is a rationalist, scientific endeavour. The resulting epistemological arguments, plus problems of theory proliferation, contradicting theories, and theory domain, hinder progress… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 8] 2004. xviii, 294 pp.
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Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, acquisition, and testing

Edited by Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer

The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world’s leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new conclusions about and insights into the selection, the learning and… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 10] 2004. xiv, 234 pp.
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Williams Syndrome across Languages

Edited by Susanne Bartke and Julia Siegmüller

Williams Syndrome (WS), aka Williams Beuren Syndrome, is a developmental disorder that we have known about for some forty years. The cause for WS was detected only recently: a micro deletion on chromosome 7, more specifically at the region of chromosome 7q11.23. The cognitive and behavioral profile… read more
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(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism

Edited by Natascha Müller

The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are… read more
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 1] 2003. xiv, 374 pp.
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Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning how to do things with words in a study abroad context

Anne Barron

Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 108] 2003. xviii, 403 pp.
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The Acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek

Theodoros Marinis

This book offers new data on the acquisition of functional categories in early child speech. Based on longitudinal corpora of five children acquiring Modern Greek as their first language, it describes the development of single DPs consisting of definite and indefinite articles, complex DPs that… read more
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Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 3 (2003)

Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen and Clara Levelt

[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 3] 2003. vi, 180 pp.
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Asian Languages and Computers

Edited by Debra Hoven and Jeong-Bae Son

Asymmetry in Grammar: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Volume I, Syntax and Semantics of Asymmetry in Grammar brings to fore the centrality of asymmetry in DP, VP and CP. A finer grained articulation of the DP is proposed, and further functional projections for restrictive relatives, as well as a refined analyses of case identification and presumptive… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 57-58] 2003. vi, 405 pp. & vi, 309 pp.
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Asymmetry in Grammar: Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition

Edited by Anna Maria Di Sciullo

Asymmetry in Grammar: Morphology, Phonology and Acquisition presents evidence that asymmetry, as a property of linguistic relations, is salient in grammar. The papers in morphology bring further evidence for the centrality of asymmetry in word-structure. It is shown that asymmetry is part of the… read more
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 58] 2003. vi, 309 pp.
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Bilingual Sentence Processing: Relative clause attachment in English and Spanish

Eva M. Fernández

The cross-linguistic differences documented in studies of relative clause attachment offer an invaluable opportunity to examine a particular aspect of bilingual sentence processing: Do bilinguals process their two languages as if they were monolingual speakers of each? This volume provides a review… read more
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The Development of Prosodic Structure in Early Words: Continuity, divergence and change

Mitsuhiko Ota

This monograph addresses three basic questions regarding the development of word-internal prosodic structure: How much of the phonological structure of early words is regulated by the same constituents and principles that govern the organization of prosodic structure of mature grammar? Why do early… read more
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 3 (2003)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen and Simona Pekarek Doehler

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 3] 2003. 
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Information Structure and the Dynamics of Language Acquisition

Edited by Christine Dimroth and Marianne Starren

The papers in this volume focus on the impact of information structure on language acquisition, thereby taking different linguistic approaches into account. They start from an empirical point of view, and examine data from natural first and second language acquisition, which cover a wide range of… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 26] 2003. vi, 361 pp.
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Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology

Edited by Joseph Shimron

This book puts together contributions of linguists and psycholinguists whose main interest here is the representation of Semitic words in the mental lexicon of Semitic language speakers. The central topic of the book confronts two views about the morphology of Semitic words. The point of the… read more
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The Lexicon–Syntax Interface in Second Language Acquisition

Edited by Roeland van Hout, Aafke Hulk, Folkert Kuiken and Richard J. Towell

Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning of the lexical items that have to be incorporated into that syntax. But these two domains involve different kinds of learning. Syntax is… read more
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Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 2 (2002)

Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen

[Annual Review of Language Acquisition, 2] 2002. iv, 202 pp.
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Appraising Research in Second Language Learning: A practical approach to critical analysis of quantitative research

Graeme Keith Porte

Designed for students of applied linguistics and TEFL on research training courses, practising language teachers, and those in training, this combination textbook/workbook is the first to provide specific advice and support to those wishing to learn how to approach the critical analysis of a… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 3] 2002. xx, 268 pp.
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Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project

Edited by Roger D. Sell

In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and… read more
[Studies in Narrative, 2] 2002. xii, 352 pp.
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Computer Learner Corpora, Second Language Acquisition and Foreign Language Teaching

Edited by Sylviane Granger, Joseph Hung and Stephanie Petch-Tyson

This book takes stock of current research into computer learner corpora conducted both by ELT and SLA specialists. It should be of particular interest to researchers looking to assess its relevance to SLA theory and ELT practice. Throughout the volume, emphasis is also placed on practical,… read more
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Directions in Sign Language Acquisition

Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll

As the first book of its kind, this volume with contributions from many well known scholars brings together some of the most recent original work on sign language acquisition in children learning a variety of different signed languages (i.e., Brazilian Sign Language, American SL, SL of the… read more
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Discourse Intonation in L2: From theory and research to practice

Dorothy M. Chun

Intonation, rhythm, and general “melody” of language are among the first aspects of speech that infants attend to and produce themselves. Yet, these same features are among the last to be mastered by adult L2 learners. Why is this, and how can L2 learners be helped? This book first presents the… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 1] 2002. xviii, 285 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 2 (2002)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen, Tanja Ruthenberg and Marie Louise Poschen

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 2] 2002. iv, 289 pp.
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The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language

Edited by T. Givón and Bertram F. Malle

The contributors to this volume are linguists, psychologists, neuroscientists, primatologists, and anthropologists who share the assumption that language, just as mind and brain, are products of biological evolution. The rise of human language is not viewed as a serendipitous mutation that gave… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 53] 2002. x, 394 pp.
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First Language Attrition, Use and Maintenance: The case of German Jews in anglophone countries

Monika S. Schmid

This book is a study of the L1 attrition of German among German Jews who emigrated to anglophone countries under the Nazi regime. It places the study of language attrition within the historical and sociocultural framework of Weimar and Nazi Germany, applying issues of identity and identification to… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 24] 2002. xiv, 259 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)
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Individual Differences and Instructed Language Learning

Edited by Peter Robinson

Second language learners differ in how successfully they adapt to, and profit from, instruction. This book aims to show that adaptation to L2 instruction, and subsequent L2 learning, is a result of the interaction between learner characteristics and learning contexts. Describing and explaining… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 2] 2002. xii, 387 pp.
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Literacies: Tertiary contexts

Compiled and edited by Zosia Golebiowski

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 25:2 (2002) vii, 148 pp.
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Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Studies in honour of Albert Valdman

Edited by Susan M. Gass, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce and Joel Walz

The concept of Pedagogical Norm is grounded in both sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic principles. Pedagogical norms guide the selection and sequencing of target language features for language teaching and learning. This book both situates and expands on this concept highlighting the interaction… read more
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 5] 2002. vi, 305 pp.
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Precursors of Functional Literacy

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven, Carsten Elbro and Pieter Reitsma

The purpose of this volume is to present recent research in the field of the acquisition of functional literacy and its precursors. The volume aims to capture the state of the art in this rapidly expanding field. An attempt is made to clarify the vague and often inconsistent definitions of… read more
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 11] 2002. viii, 360 pp.
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Annual Review of Language Acquisition: Volume 1 (2001)

Edited by Lynn Santelmann, Maaike Verrips and Frank Wijnen

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Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 1

Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23] 2001. xviii, 298 pp.
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Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 2

Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more

Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition… read more
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23-24] 2001. xviii, 299 pp. & viii, 337 pp.
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Conversational Dominance and Gender: A study of Japanese speakers in first and second language contexts

Hiroko Itakura

This book investigates the notion of conversational dominance in depth, and seeks to establish a systematic method of analysing it. It also offers a new insight into the role of gender and the pragmatic transfer of conversational norms in the first and second language conversations among native… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 89] 2001. xviii, 231 pp.
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EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001)

Edited by Susan H. Foster-Cohen and Anna Nizegorodcew

[EUROSLA Yearbook, 1] 2001. iv, 289 pp.
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Input and Evidence: The raw material of second language acquisition

Susanne Elizabeth Carroll

Input and Evidence: the raw material of second language acquisition is an empirical and theoretical treatment of one of the essential components of SLA: the input to language learning mechanisms. It reviews and adds to the empirical studies showing that negative evidence (correction, feedback,… read more
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 25] 2001. xviii, 461 pp.
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Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context

Edited by Ludo Verhoeven and Sven Strömqvist

In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 23] 2001. viii, 430 pp.
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New Perspectives and Issues in Educational Language Policy: In honour of Bernard Dov Spolsky

Edited by Robert L. Cooper, Elana Shohamy and Joel Walters

This formidable selection of papers reflects the psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic underpinnings of the interface between language and education. Following an introduction that positions the field of educational linguistics historically and conceptually, the volume presents 15 contributions by… read more
[Not in series, 104] 2001. vi, 307 pp.
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Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen

Edited by Marcel Bax and Jan-Wouter Zwart

In Reflections on Language and Language Learning: In honour of Arthur van Essen, thirty-one leading language scholars and educational linguists in the Netherlands and abroad with whom over the years Professor van Essen, one of the grandees of applied linguistics, has collaborated provide original… read more
[Not in series, 109] 2001. xxxiv, 366 pp.
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Romance Syntax, Semantics and L2 Acquisition: Selected papers from the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Gainesville, Florida, February 2000

Edited by Joaquim Camps and Caroline R. Wiltshire

This volume contains a selection of refereed and revised papers, originally presented at the 30th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, representing the areas of syntax, semantics, their interfaces, and second language acquisition. The topics addressed include movement (both wh- and… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 216] 2001. xii, 246 pp.
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Telicity in the Second Language

Roumyana Slabakova

The author combines a syntax-theoretical treatment of telicity marking and an empirical study of the second language acquisition of English telicity marking by native speakers of Bulgarian, a Slavic language. It is argued that Vendler’s lexical classes of verbs (states, activities, accomplishments… read more
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Trends in Bilingual Acquisition

Edited by Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee

The chapters in this volume provide the first comprehensive overview of trends in research on early phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development in children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously. Ongoing as well as emerging issues are examined and discussed by leading… read more
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 1] 2001. viii, 288 pp.
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The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement: Syntax and pragmatics

Jeannette Schaeffer

This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the “real time acquisition” of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of the Modularity… read more
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The Development of Past Tense Morphology in L2 Spanish

M. Rafael Salaberry

This book presents an extended analysis of the development of L2 Spanish past tense morphology among L1 English-speaking learners. The study addresses three major questions: (1) what is the developmental pattern of acquisition of past tense verbal morphology among tutored learners? (2) what are the… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 22] 2000. xii, 210 pp.
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Discourse Analysis and Language Teaching

Edited by Eva Alcón-Soler and Josep R. Guzman Pitarch

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Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar

David Lebeaux

Language Acquisition and the Form of the Grammar attempts to re-think the ideal organization of the grammar, given its need to be learned. The book proposes a fundamental connection between the form of the adult grammar and the sequence of grammars which the child adopts in first language… read more
[Not in series, 97] 2000. xxx, 277 pp.
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The Second Time Around – Minimalism and L2 Acquisition

Julia Herschensohn

Linking recent advances in theoretical syntax and empirical research in language development, the book claims that second language acquisition is not totally distinct from first language acquisition, but rather is a replay, a relearning of language. It argues that Universal Grammar is a template… read more
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The Acquisition of Japanese as a Second Language

Edited by Kazue Kanno

This book marks the first-ever collection of papers in English on the acquisition of Japanese as a second language. Its overarching goal is to broaden and deepen the field of SLA research by focusing on Japanese rather than on more commonly studied European languages. Broad in scope and eclectic in… read more
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The Development of Second Language Grammars: A generative approach

Edited by Elaine C. Klein and Gita Martohardjono

This volume is a collection of state-of-the-art papers in generative studies of second language (L2) acquisition bringing together an unusually broad range of interests and inquiry. Selected papers report on controlled experimental studies within specific areas of research investigating the… read more
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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers

Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches – functionalists and formalists – in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41] 1999. vi, 514 pp.
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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies

Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 42] 1999. vi, 407 pp.

Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley

The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 41-42] 1999. vi, 486 pp. & vi, 407 pp.
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Learning a Second Language through Interaction

Rod Ellis

This book examines different theoretical perspectives on the role that interaction plays in second language acquisition. The principal perspectives are those afforded by the Interaction Hypothesis, Socio-Cultural Theory and the Levels of Processing model. Interaction is, therefore, defined broadly;… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 17] 1999. x, 285 pp.
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Linguistic Attractors: The cognitive dynamics of language acquisition and change

David L. Cooper

The interdisciplinary linguistic attractor model portrays language processing as linked sequences of fractal sets, and examines the changing dynamics of such sets for individuals as well as the speech community they comprise. Its motivation stems from human anatomic constraints and several… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 2] 1999. xv, 375 pp.
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Negotiated Interaction in Target Language Classroom Discourse

Jamila Boulima

This book addresses some of the most fundamental questions that can be asked about target language (TL) acquisition in the classroom context, namely1. What is negotiated interaction?2. What are the main discourse functions of negotiated interaction?3. How frequent is negotiated interaction in TL… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 51] 1999. xiv, 338 pp.
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Slips of the Tongue: Speech errors in first and second language production

Nanda Poulisse

This book reports the results of an extensive study of slips of the tongue produced by foreign language (L2) learners at different levels of proficiency. Thus, it provides new data which can be used to test current monolingual models of speech production and to further the development of bilingual… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 20] 1999. xvi, 266 pp.
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The Acquisition of Dutch

Edited by Steven Gillis and Annick De Houwer

In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 52] 1998. xvi, 444 pp.
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Issues in the Teaching and Learning of Japanese

Edited by Nicolette Bramley and Naoko Hanamura

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Morphology and its Interfaces in Second Language Knowledge

Edited by Maria-Luise Beck

This volume treats the connection between syntax and morphology with a focus on L2 acquisition. This interface has been a matter of considerable interest in theoretical circles ever since Chomsky (1994) and others argued that morphological parameters form the primary locus of cross-linguistic… read more
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Second Language Phonology

John Archibald

This volume explores a variety of aspects of second language speech, with special focus on contributions to the field made by (primarely) generative linguists looking at the sounds and sound systems of second language learners. Second Language Phonology starts off with an overview of second… read more
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Talking and Testing: Discourse approaches to the assessment of oral proficiency

Edited by Richard Young and Agnes Weiyun He

This book brings together a collection of current research on the assessment of oral proficiency in a second language. Fourteen chapters focus on the use of the language proficiency interview or LPI to assess oral proficiency. The volume addresses the central issue of validity in proficiency… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 14] 1998. x, 395 pp.
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The Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language

Angelika Becker and Mary Carroll

This book is the third to appear in the SIBIL series based on results from the European Science Foundation's Additional Activity on the second language acquisition of adult immigrants. It analyses from a longitudinal and cross-linguistic perspective the acquisition of the linguistic means to… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 11] 1997. xii, 212 pp.
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Creole and Dialect Continua: Standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC)

Geneviève Escure

Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies,… read more
[Creole Language Library, 18] 1997. x, 307 pp.
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Focus on Phonological Acquisition

Edited by S.J. Hannahs and Martha Young-Scholten

The publication of this edited volume comes at a time when interest in the acquisition of phonology by both children learning a first language and adults learning a second is starting to swell. The ten contributions, from established scholars and relative newcomers alike, provide a comprehensive… read more
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The Language of Emotions: Conceptualization, expression, and theoretical foundation

Edited by Susanne Niemeier and René Dirven †

Since the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Darwin's The Language of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), emotionology has become a respectable and even thriving research domain again. The domain of human emotions is most important for mankind, emotions being right in the center of our… read more
[Not in series, 85] 1997. xviii, 337 pp.
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The Locative Alternation in German: Its structure and acquisition

Ursula Brinkmann

This monograph deals with the locative alternation in German, a change in the argument structure of verbs like spray and load. Like most argument structure changes, the alternation is both productive and constrained: new forms may be derived, but not from all candidate verbs. This raises a… read more
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Teaching Languages, Teaching Culture

Edited by Anthony J. Liddicoat and Chantal Crozet

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Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view

Edited by Clotilde Pontecorvo

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up Writing Development are: (1) Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between speech… read more
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 6] 1997. xxxii, 338 pp.
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Aspects of Argument Structure Acquisition in Inuktitut

Shanley E.M. Allen

This book discusses the first language acquisition of three morphosyntactic mechanisms of transitivity alternation in arctic Quebec Inuktitut. Data derive from naturalistic longitudinal spontaneous speech samples collected over a nine-month period from four Inuit children. Both basic and advanced… read more
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Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons

Edited by Harald Clahsen

Against the background of the proliferation of the various subdisciplines of language acquisition research over the past decades, this volume aims to enhance the existing but somewhat fragile links between language acquisition and theoretical linguistics. With regard to previous research, the book… read more
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 14] 1996. xxvii, 499 pp.
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The Language Testing Cycle: From inception to washback

Edited by Gillian Wigglesworth and Catherine Elder

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Learnability and the Lexicon: Theories and second language acquisition research

Alan Juffs

This book provides a critical review of recent theories of semantics-syntax correspondences and makes new proposals for constraints on semantic structure relevant to syntax. Data from several languages are presented which suggest that semantic structure in root morphemes is subject to parametric… read more
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics: Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics. Volume VIII: Amherst, Massachusetts 1994

Edited by Mushira Eid

This volume includes ten papers selected from the Eighth Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, held at the University of Masschusetts, Amherst, 1994. Six of them deal with the syntax of Arabic two with phonology, and two with variation. The topics represented in the volume include binding in… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 134] 1996. vii, 261 pp.
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Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Variation

Edited by Robert Bayley and Dennis R. Preston

This volume corrects the relative neglect in Second Language Acquisition studies of the quantitative study of language variation and provides insights into such issues as language transfer, acquisition through exposure, language universals, learner’s age and so forth.These studies bolster the idea… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 10] 1996. xix, 317 pp.
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The Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford

Edited by Lynn Eubank, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith

This state-of-the-art volume presents an outstanding collection of 22 studies on current issues facing research in second-language acquisition (SLA). The editors sought contributions for this volume from seasoned veterans of SLA like Lydia White and Susan Gass, from well-known researchers in… read more
[Not in series, 73] 1995. vii, 293 pp.
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Interlanguage and Learnability: From Chinese to English

Virginia Yip

This book investigates a set of structures characteristic of Chinese speakers' English interlanguage (CIL) in the light of grammatical theory and principles of learnability. As a study of CIL grammar, it illuminates both the theory of interlanguage syntax in general and some specific problems in… read more
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Lexical Issues in Language Learning

Birgit Harley

The nine major empirical studies of Lexical Issues in Language Learning address key issues in the development and use of vocabulary by child bilinguals and older second language learners. The thematic focus in this collection of Language Learning articles is on the assessment of lexical development… read more
[Best of Language Learning, 2] 1995. iv, 318 pp.
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The Hard Work–Entertainment Continuum: Teaching Asian languages in Australia

Edited by Andy Kirkpatrick, Yong Zhong and Helen Kirkpatrick

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The Acquisition of Mauritian Creole

Dany Adone

This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first language. As such, it is the first major study of the development of child grammar in a Creole context. Mauritian… read more
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Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development

Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel

The contributions in this volume are based on an analysis of data from bilingual children acquiring French and German simultaneously. The longitudinal studies started at approximately age one year and six months and continued till age six. The papers focus on the development of specific… read more
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Language Acquisition Studies in Generative Grammar

Edited by Teun Hoekstra and Bonnie D. Schwartz

This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework. In line with current methodology in the study of adult grammars, language acquisition is studied here from a comparative perspective. The unifying theme is the issue of… read more
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Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition: Null subjects and morphological uniformity

Usha Lakshmanan

This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal… read more
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Confluence: Linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology

Edited by Fred Eckman

That linguistics, L2 acquisition and speech pathology impinge on each other in areas of vital importance to each discipline seems to be almost undeniable. All three fields are concerned with the characterization of language in one form or another; and all deal with the acquisition of language by… read more
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Knowledge of Reflexives in a Second Language

Margaret Thomas

This study addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a second language. The data are based on two related experiments. The first examines the interpretation of English reflexive… read more
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Language and Gender in the Australian Context

Edited by Joanne Winter and Gillian Wigglesworth

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Language Teaching and Learning in Australia

Edited by Chris Mann and Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. †

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Language Transfer in Language Learning: Revised edition

Edited by Susan M. Gass and Larry Selinker

The study of native language influence in Second Language Acquisition has undergone significant changes over the past few decades. This book, which includes 12 chapters by distinguished researchers in the field of second language acquisition, traces the conceptual history of language transfer from… read more
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One Parent – One Language: An interactional approach

Susanne Döpke

This volume examines the relationship between young children's degrees of bilingualism and features of the verbal input which these children receive from their parents. In particular, it seeks to explore the following question: to what extent are families who follow the 'one parent-one language'… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 3] 1992. xviii, 231 pp.
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Psycholinguistics: Psychology, linguistics, and the study of natural language

Joseph F. Kess

This textbook is designed to serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of psycholinguistics. It is directed at filling the reading needs of courses in departments of linguistics and of psychology, presenting an integrated overview of the ways in which both disciplines have… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 86] 1992. xiv, 383 pp.
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Utterance Structure: Developing grammars again

Wolfgang Klein and Clive Perdue

This volume presents the results of part of the ESF project 'Second language acquisition by adult immigrants'. The present study deals specifically with structure of utterances in learner varieties. The authors have attempted to find general principles which determine the form of utterances from… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 5] 1992. xvi, 354 pp.
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A Case for Psycholinguistic Cases

Edited by Gabriela Appel and Hans W. Dechert

This volume comprises ten papers presented as plenary lectures on the occasion of the Second World Congress of the International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics (ISAPL) at the University of Kassel, Germany, from July 27 — 31, 1987. The articles collected in this volume focus on the production,… read more
[Not in series, 46] 1991. viii, 195 pp.
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Child Language and Developmental Dysphasia: Linguistic studies of the acquisition of German

Harald Clahsen

The subject of this two part work is the acquisition of language structure in which the development of syntax and morphology is examined by investigations on children without language problems and on children with developmental dysphasia. The author uses a comparative acquisition study to provide… read more
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Cross Currents in Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory

Edited by Thom Huebner and Charles A. Ferguson

The term “crosscurrent” is defined as “a current flowing counter to another.” This volume represents crosscurrents in second language acquisition and linguistic theory in several respects. First, although the main currents running between linguistics and second language acquisition have… read more
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Foreign Language Research in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Edited by Kees de Bot, Ralph B. Ginsberg and Claire Kramsch

This volume focuses on priorities for research in language pedagogy. The aim is to give an up-to-date overview of current thinking about important research issues such as the viability of large scale comparisons, the quantitative/qualitative research controversy, new trends in language testing and… read more
[Studies in Bilingualism, 2] 1991. xi, 275 pp.
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Language Bases ... Discourse Bases: Some aspects of contemporary French-language psycholinguistics research

Edited by Gilberte Piéraut-Le Bonniec and Marlene Dolitsky

When child language began to be studied in the sixties, what interested researchers most was what could be considered language per se. Holophrases were excluded as seemingly having no syntax and research work was carried out as of the two-word stage. Language development was studied up to around… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 17] 1991. vi, 342 pp.
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Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language

Edited by Lynn Eubank

Point Counterpoint offers a series of papers and replies originally presented at a special session of the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, March 1989. The focus of the papers is primarily the role of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition, though the agenda also includes discussion… read more
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Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 1

Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas

This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Volume I starts off with an overview of the field by G. Richard Tucker in which he identifies two areas: innovative language education and language education policy. The overal focus of… read more
[Not in series, LKUL 1] 1990. xx, 508 pp.
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Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. Volume 2

Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas

This volume contains selected papers from the Eight World Congress of Applied Linguistics held in Sydney in 1987. Whereas the focus of Volume I is on learning language and the standpoint of the individual learner, the contributions to Volume II are concerned not so much with individuals as with… read more
[Not in series, LKUL 2] 1990. xvi, 488 pp.

Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected papers from the Eighth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16–21 August 1987. 2 Volumes (set)

Edited by M.A.K. Halliday †, John Gibbons and Howard Nicholas

This two-volume collection brings together papers first presented at the AILA Congress in 1987. In volume I, the overall focus is on the individual language learner, and how that individual develops a command of a language (first or second) in home and classroom settings. The papers in the second… read more
[Not in series, LKUL S] 1990. xx, 508 + xvi, 488 pp.
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Contrastive Pragmatics

Edited by Wieslaw Oleksy

This volume deals with a variety of pragmatic issues involved in cross-language and interlanguage studies as well as second-language acquisition and cross-cultural studies. Part I contains papers dealing with general issues stemming from contrastive work, for example, the question of tertium… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 3] 1989. xiv, 282 pp.
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Dimensions of Language Attrition

Edited by Kees de Bot, Michael Clyne and T.J.M. van Els

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 83/84 (1989) ca. 162 pp.
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Universal Grammar and Second Language Acquisition

Lydia White

This book explores the relationship between linguistic universals and second language acquisition. Although no knowledge of generative grammar is presupposed, the theoretical framework underlying the work is the principles and parameters approach to Universal Grammar (UG), as realized in Chomsky's… read more
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Normale und gestörte Kindersprache

Harald Clahsen

Clahsen geht es in seinem neuen Buch um eine prazise empirische Theorie des kindlichen Spracherwerbs. Er argumentiert fur einige zentrale Bestandteile einer solchen Theorie, die groîenteils im Kontext linguistischer Theoriebildung stehen. Fur diesen Zweck werden vergleichende… read more
[Not in series, 33] 1988. ix, 340 pp.
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Australian Applied Language Studies

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 10:2 (1987) vi, 236 pp.
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Perspectives on Child Language

Edited by Annick De Houwer and Steven Gillis

[Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2] 1987. 161 pp.
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Literacy

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 9:2 (1986) v, 157 pp.
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Studies in Turkish Linguistics

Edited by Dan I. Slobin and Karl Zimmer

Turkish is a member of the Turkic family of languages, which extends over a vast area in southern and eastern Siberia and adjacent portions of Iran, Afganistan, and China. Turkic, in turn, belongs to the Altaic family of languages. This book deals with the morphological and syntactic, semantic and… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 8] 1986. vi, 300 pp.
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Volume 3

Edited by Tim F. McNamara

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Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language: Festschrift for Robert Lado. On the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

Edited by Kurt R. Jankowsky

The volume has been written by a great variety of scholars and educators. Not only are the authors literally from all four corners of the world; they also represent, in spite of the large body of shared professional viewpoints and objectives, many different, even diverging, approaches,… read more
[Not in series, 22] 1985. lii, 614 pp.
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Language Handicap

Guest-edited by Ann Zubrick

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 7:2 (1984) iv, 75 pp.
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Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition

Edited by William E. Rutherford

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important… read more
[Typological Studies in Language, 5] 1984. ix, 264 pp.
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Transfer and Interference in Language: A Selected Bibliography

Compiled by Hans W. Dechert, Monika Brüggemeier and Dietmar Fütterer

The topic of this bibliography in its broadest sense is the subject of a wide range of academic disciplines. Given these circumstances, the particular associations and connotations of the terms ‘transfer’ and ‘interference’ in each of these areas are legion, with resultant differences in meaning in… read more
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Foreign Language Teaching

Edited by T.J. Quinn

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 6:2 (1983) iv, 103 pp.
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Papers of the workshop on Language and Prosody

Edited by Karel van den Eynde and Nicole Delbecque

Special issue of ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 60/61 (1983) ca. 158 pp.
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Control and Ability: Towards a Biocybernetics of Language

Waltraud Brennenstuhl

This is the first of the two volumes – the second volume being Thomas Ballmer’s Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication (P&B III:7) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts from a cybernetic explication of some action theoretic notions, like control and ability.… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:4] 1982. vi, 122 pp.
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Language Planning

Special issue of Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 5:2 (1982) viii, 159 pp.
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'The boat's gonna leave': A study of children learning a second language from conversations with other children

Anca M. Nemoianu

This essay attempts to show how a second language is acquired by very young children in the process of socialization with other children. The study seeks to integrate the process of second language learning in the general framework of child development, concentrating in particular on the… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, I:1] 1980. vi, 116 pp.
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