Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help
Rakuten Kobo
Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Second Language Acquisition eBook Series

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters

  • Learning Foreign Languages in Primary School

    Research Insights

    Edited by Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo ...
    Series Book 115 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book presents research on the learning of foreign languages by children aged 6-12 years old in primary school settings. The collection provides a significant and important contribution to this often overlooked domain and aims to provide research-based evidence that might help to inform and develop pedagogical practice. Topics covered in the chapters include the influence of learner ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Psychology for Language Learning

    Insights from Research, Theory and Practice

    Edited by S. Mercer, S. Ryan, M. Williams ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Offering a timely snapshot of current theory and research in the field of psychology in foreign language learning, this book is accessible to both specialists and non-specialists. Each chapter focuses on a different psychological construct and provides an overview of current thinking in the area drawing on insights from educational psychology. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Sociocultural Theory and L2 Instructional Pragmatics

    by Rémi A. van Compernolle ...
    Series Book 74 - Second Language Acquisition
    Winner of the AAAL First Book Award 2017!This book outlines a framework for teaching second language pragmatics grounded in Vygotskian sociocultural psychology. The framework focuses on the appropriation of sociopragmatic concepts as psychological tools that mediate pragmalinguistic choices. Using multiple sources of metalinguistic and performance data collected during a six-week pedagogical ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Future Research Directions for Applied Linguistics

    Edited by Simone E. Pfenninger, Dr. Judit Navracsics ...
    Series Book 109 - Second Language Acquisition
    This edited volume provides an overview of current thinking and directions for further research in applied linguistics by bringing together in a single volume a range of perspectives regarding original research agendas and innovative methodological approaches. It focuses not only on the challenges that applied linguistics researchers have been facing in recent years but also on producing workable ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • How to start, carry on and end conversations

    Scripts for social situations for people on the autism spectrum

    by Paul Jordan ...
    Do you find it hard to make friends? Do you struggle to know what to say to start a conversation?In this book, Paul Jordan, who is on the autism spectrum, explains how to make sense of everyday social situations you might encounter at school, university or in other group settings. He reveals how, with the use of just 65 simple words, it is possible to create 'scripts for thinking' that break ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Early Learning and Teaching of English

    New Dynamics of Primary English

    Edited by Prof. Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović, Assoc. Prof. Marta Medved Krajnović ...
    Series Book 86 - Second Language Acquisition
    This book offers an insight into the dynamics and complexities of learning and teaching English as a foreign language at primary level. Taking a Dynamic Systems Theory perspective, the chapters present the findings of longitudinal research undertaken in Croatia into the development of English in young learners. The book includes both qualitative and quantitative research and provides insights into ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Code Choice in the Language Classroom

    by Prof. Glenn S. Levine ...
    Code Choice in the Language Classroom argues that the foreign language classroom is and should be regarded as a multilingual community of practice rather than as a perpetually deficient imitator of an exclusive second-language environment. From a sociocultural and ecological perspective, Levine guides the reader through a theoretical, empirical, and pedagogical treatment of the important roles of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education

    Expanding Meaning-Making Potentials

    by Dr. Erin Kearney ...
    Series Book 28 - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    Winner of the 2015-16 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize awarded by the Modern Language AssociationMany educators aim to engage students in deeply meaningful learning in the language classroom, often facing challenges to connect the students with the culture of the language they are learning. This book aims to demonstrate that substantial intercultural learning can and does occur in the modern language ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Rosa Alonso Alonso ...
    Series Book 95 - Second Language Acquisition
    This volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency of structures in acquisition from distinct, overlapping and complementary perspectives. Chapters ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Acquisition of «be» by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong- and its Pedagogical Implications

    by Mable Chan ...
    The present study examines grammaticality judgment data, production data and acceptability judgment data from 243 Cantonese second language learners and a control group of 12 native English speakers. Research areas concern (a) the role of the first language in the acquisition of be by Cantonese second language learners; (b) the question if properties associated with be remain persistently ... Read more

    $131.09 USD

  • Handbook of Arabic Literacy

    Insights and Perspectives

    Edited by Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, R. Malatesha Joshi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing in Arabic. Its particular focus is on the interplay between the linguistic and orthographic structure of Arabic and the development of reading and writing/spelling. In addition, the book addresses the socio-cultural, political and educational milieu in which Arabic literacy is ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Multiple Perspectives on the Self in SLA

    Edited by Sarah Mercer, Marion Williams ...
    Series Book 73 - Second Language Acquisition
    Instead of viewing different perspectives on the self as competing with each other and considering one perspective on the self as being inherently ‘better’ than another, this book takes the view that a fuller, more comprehensive picture of the self in SLA can be gained by examining and combining insights from different perspectives. This original collection of papers thus attempts to provide a ... Read more

    $14.29 USD