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SiBil 63
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. Most languages display...
full descriptionJanuary 2022. xi, 282 pp.
Z 231
The Art and Architecture of Academic Writing
Patricia Prinz and Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
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 genres. Tailored to students in EMI programs, the content was piloted and revised during a...
full descriptionSeptember 2021. x, 299 pp.
BPA 17
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 friends, the book...
full descriptionSeptember 2023. vi, 297 pp.
BPA 15
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 of additional...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. xxi, 292 pp.
TiLAR 32
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 implemented and task...
full descriptionJanuary 2023. xi, 236 pp.
SCL 104
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 highly interesting...
full descriptionDecember 2022. vi, 327 pp.
BPA 16
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 differently because of...
full descriptionMay 2023. vi, 321 pp.
RMAL 1
Ethnographies of Academic Writing Research
Theory, methods, and interpretation
Edited by Ignacio Guillén-Galve and Ana Bocanegra-Valle
This book illustrates the use of ethnography as an analytical approach to investigate academic writing, and provides critical insights into how academic writing research can benefit from the use of ethnographic methods. Throughout its six theoretical and practice-oriented studies, together with the introductory...
full descriptionOctober 2021. xi, 162 pp.
LALD 67
Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism
Features, interfaces, and beyond
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 theory and...
full descriptionAugust 2022. vii, 318 pp.
TBLT 15
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 dimensions of learning an...
full descriptionApril 2022. xiii, 292 pp.
Z 195
How to do Linguistics with R
Data exploration and statistical analysis
Natalia Levshina
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 linguists. How to do Linguistics with R: Data exploration and statistical analysis is unique in its scope,...
full descriptionNovember 2015. xi, 443 pp.
AALS 20
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 chapters present...
full descriptionJune 2023. x, 220 pp.
RMAL 3
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 organized by four skill...
full descriptionDecember 2022. xxiv, 388 pp.
LL< 59
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, methodological, and...
full descriptionAugust 2023. vii, 253 pp.
LL< 58
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. Also included are...
full descriptionApril 2023. xxii, 343 pp.
SiBil 65
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 needs to expand its...
full descriptionOctober 2023. vi, 275 pp.
LL< 57
Language Teacher Development in Digital Contexts
Edited by Hayriye Kayi-Aydar and Jonathon Reinhardt
This volume demonstrates how various methodologies and tools have been used to analyze the multidimensional, dynamic, and complex nature of identities and professional development of language teachers in digital contexts that have not been adequately examined before. It therefore offers new understandings and...
full descriptionJanuary 2022. x, 196 pp.
RMAL 6
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 plethora of research...
full descriptionJanuary 2024. vi, 274 pp.
ILLA 1
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 edited volume is...
full descriptionJune 2023. x, 172 pp.
Z 233
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 methodologically contentious areas...
full descriptionFebruary 2021. xiii, 160 pp.
RMAL 4
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 present volume...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. ix, 393 pp.
SiBil 66
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 themes: The Early Years...
full descriptionApril 2024. x, 434 pp.
SiBil 67
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 movement, language is a...
full descriptionExpected June 2024. ix, 645 pp.
TBLT 14
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 introduced to TBLT...
full descriptionFebruary 2022. ix, 282 pp.
PALART 9
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 be pleasantly...
full descriptionFebruary 2023. vii, 309 pp.
RMAL 2
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 scene, it can also...
full descriptionSeptember 2022. xv, 325 pp.
RMAL 5
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 studies of composing...
full descriptionOctober 2023. vi, 387 pp.
BPA 14
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 research to the field,...
full descriptionAugust 2022. xxiv, 276 pp.
BPA 13
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 relevant (sub-)...
full descriptionAugust 2022. xi, 388 pp.
SILV 28
Variation in Second and Heritage Languages
Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Robert Bayley, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li
Variationist work in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) began in the mid 1970s and steadily progressed during the 1980s. Much of it was reviewed along with newer approaches in Bayley and Preston 1996 (B&P), heavily devoted to VARBRUL analyses that exposed the variability in developing interlanguages and placed...
full descriptionJuly 2022. xx, 365 pp.
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