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AAAL 2021 Virtual Conference (AAAL 2021)

Denver, Colorado, March 20-23, 2021

The 2021 annual meeting of the AAAL will take place online. Kees Vaes (kees.vaesbenjamins.nl) and/or Seline Benjamins (seline.benjaminsbenjamins.nl) will be present in the virtual exhibit space during scheduled breaks. We're happy to see you there to talk about our books, your work, and possible publishing projects. If you're not able to visit us then, please contact us by email to schedule a chat at some other time.

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TiLAR 26

The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking

Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul

June 2020. vi, 369 pp.

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... read more

BCT 109

Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary

Edited by Stuart Webb

August 2020. v, 234 pp.

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... read more

Z 231

The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing

Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir

September 2021. x, 299 pp.

This book is a bridge to confident academic writing for advanced non-native English users. It emphasizes depth over breadth through mastery of core writing competencies and strategies which apply to most academic disciplines and... read more

Z 203

Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist
The life histories of some applied linguists

Edited by Rod Ellis

October 2016. vi, 373 pp.

Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist contains narrative accounts of the lives of thirteen well-established applied linguists. Their professional autobiographies document the development of some of the key areas of... read more

LL&LT 54

Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 Writing Development

Edited by Gary G. Fogal and Marjolijn H. Verspoor

June 2020. xvii, 304 pp.

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... read more

SCL 98

Corpus Approaches to Social Media

Edited by Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter

November 2020. vi, 210 pp.

From Twitter to Reddit, Facebook, and WhatsApp – social media is a part of modern everyday life. Studying the language used on social media platforms presents great opportunities as well as challenges to corpus linguists. The... read more

LL&LT 53

Cross-theoretical Explorations of Interlocutors and their Individual Differences

Edited by Laura Gurzynski-Weiss

January 2020. xii, 270 pp.

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... read more

LL&LT 52

Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom
Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability

Edited by Robert M. DeKeyser and Goretti Prieto Botana

March 2019. vi, 219 pp.

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,... read more

SiBil 58

Heritage Languages
A language contact approach

Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken

November 2019. xix, 302 pp.

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... read more

Z 195

How to do Linguistics with R
Data exploration and statistical analysis

Natalia Levshina

November 2015. xi, 443 pp.

This book provides a linguist with a statistical toolkit for exploration and analysis of linguistic data. It employs R, a free software environment for statistical computing, which is increasingly popular among... read more

Z 220

Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews

Edited by Kathryn Roulston

March 2019. xviii, 330 pp.

Methodological accounts of research interviews find that how researchers use this tool in their work varies widely: there are many “ways” of interviewing. This edited collection unpacks the interactional dynamics of qualitative... read more

LL&LT 55

Languaging in Language Learning and Teaching
A collection of empirical studies

Edited by Wataru Suzuki and Neomy Storch

August 2020. vii, 313 pp.

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... read more

Z 208

Making and Using Word Lists for Language Learning and Testing

I.S.P. Nation

September 2016. xiv, 210 pp.

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... read more

Z 233

Measuring Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size

I.S.P. Nation and Averil Coxhead

February 2021. xiii, 160 pp.

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... read more

Z 229

Professional Development in Applied Linguistics
A guide to success for graduate students and early career faculty

Edited by Luke Plonsky

July 2020. vi, 204 pp.

Success in academia requires more than an understanding of discipline-specific literature and an ability to teach and do research. It is also necessary to develop an understanding of a range of professionally-oriented skills such... read more

SiBil 62

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

March 2021. viii, 359 pp.

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... read more

TBLT 13

Researching L2 Task Performance and Pedagogy
In honour of Peter Skehan

Edited by Zhisheng (Edward) Wen and Mohammad Javad Ahmadian

August 2019. xxiii, 328 pp.

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... read more

BCT 110

Teacher Development for Immersion and Content-Based Instruction

Edited by Laurent Cammarata and T.J. Ó Ceallaigh

September 2020. vi, 201 pp.

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... read more

Z 228

Visual Linguistics with R
A practical introduction to quantitative Interactional Linguistics

Christoph Rühlemann

July 2020. ix, 258 pp.

This book is a textbook on R, a programming language and environment for statistical analysis and visualization. Its primary aim is to introduce R as a research instrument in quantitative Interactional Linguistics. Focusing on... read more

LL&LT 56

Writing and Language Learning
Advancing research agendas

Edited by Rosa M. Manchón

November 2020. vii, 432 pp.

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... read more