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Second Language Acquisition eBook Series

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  • Lexical Processing in Second Language Learners

    Papers and Perspectives in Honour of Paul Meara

    Edited by Tess Fitzpatrick, Dr. Andy Barfield ...
    Series Book 39 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book presents studies from authors at the cutting edge of second language vocabulary research, whose output represents much of the current focus and direction of work in this area. The authors address various aspects of L2 lexical processing and explore different models of acquisition, processing and storage. The studies are linked by the fact that the authors have all belonged to the same ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Foundations of Language

    Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution

    by Ray Jackendoff ...
    How does human language work? How do we put ideas into words that others can understand? Can linguistics shed light on the way the brain operates? Foundations of Language puts linguistics back at the centre of the search to understand human consciousness. Ray Jackendoff begins by surveying the developments in linguistics over the years since Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He goes ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Figurative Language Comprehension

    Social and Cultural Influences

    Edited by Herbert L. Colston, Albert N. Katz ...
    Figurative language, such as verbal irony, metaphor, hyperbole, idioms, and other forms is an increasingly important subfield within the empirical study of language comprehension and use. Figurative Language Comprehension: Social and Cultural Influences is an edited scholarly book that ties together recent research concerning the social and cultural influences on figurative language cognition. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning

    A Sociocultural Perspective

    by Leo van Lier ...
    Series Book 3 - Educational Linguistics
    In this book I try to give a coherent and consistent overview of what an ecological approach to language learning might look like. This is not a fully fledged grand theory that aims to provide an explanation of everything, but an attempt to provide a rationale for taking an ecological world view and applying it to language education, which I regard as one of the most important of all human ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Second Language Acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis

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

    $73.99 USD

  • Introducing Language and Cognition

    A Map of the Mind

    by Michael Sharwood Smith ...
    In this accessible introduction, Mike Sharwood Smith provides a working model or 'map' of the mind, with language as its centrepiece. Drawing on cutting-edge research across linguistics, psychology and neuroscience, it allows students to quickly grasp how each separate aspect of the mind's operations can be related. This 'big picture' view includes the way the mind makes, stores and loses memories ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Linguanomics

    What is the Market Potential of Multilingualism?

    by Dr Gabrielle Hogan-Brun ...
    Globalization, the Internet and an era of mass travel have combined to produce a world with a language mix on a huge scale. Linguanomics explains this multilingualism in a material, economic and cultural sense.What is the effect of this multilingualism on society, organizations and individuals? What are the economic benefits and drawbacks? Should we invest in language skills? Should there be ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Reading in a Second Language

    Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Issues

    by Xi Chen, Vedran Dronjic, Rena Helms-Park ...
    Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, with graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology as its primary audience. The book explores reading processes from a number of complementary standpoints, integrating perspectives from fields such as ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Classification of Developmental Language Disorders

    Theoretical Issues and Clinical Implications

    Edited by Ludo Verhoeven, Hans van Balkom ...
    Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders. They address the question: How can the child's linguistic environment be restructured so that children at risk can develop important adaptive skills in the domains of self-care, social interaction, and problem solving? This theory-based, but practical book emphasizes the ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • Strategic Language Learning

    by GAO, Xuesong (Andy) ...
    This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates language learning experiences in an English medium university. The inquiry reveals dynamic interaction between agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants strategic learning efforts in a multilingual setting. ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Concepts as Correlates of Lexical Labels

    A Cognitivist Perspective

    by Slawomir Wacewicz ...
    Series Book 9 - Dis/Continuities
    The study of language becomes particularly attractive when it is not practised as an isolated descriptive enterprise, but when it has wide-ranging implications for the study of the human mind. Such is the spirit of this book. While categorisation may be the single most basic cognitive process in organisms, and as an area of inquiry, it is fundamental to Cognitive Science as a whole, at the other ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • Language Interrupted

    Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars

    by John McWhorter ...
    Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat down claims that certain languages are "easier" than others, since it is assumed all languages ... Read more

    $97.19 USD