Second Language Acquisition

Key Issues in Chinese as a Second Language Research presents and discusses research projects that serve as theoretical grounding for improving the teaching and learning of Chinese as a Second Language (CSL) in order to help researchers and practitioners better understand the acquisition, development..

Language in Children provides a concise and basic introduction for students studying child language acquisition for the first time. This book introduces the core areas of this subject and is supported by a companion website that includes exercises with links to real-world data in the CHILDES archive..

Lexical Processing and Second Language Acquisition provides a comprehensive overview of research on second language lexical processing, integrating converging research and perspectives from Cognitive Science and Second Language Acquisition. The book begins by introducing the dominant issues addresse..

In the first volume to present an in-depth overview of metalinguistics as it relates to SLA, Roehr-Brackin discusses metalinguistic awareness in both contexts of child and adult learners, addresses the relationship between metalinguistic awareness and metalanguage, and outlines the methods that can ..

*Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award*_x005F_x000D_ Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning...

Research on Politeness in the Spanish-Speaking World is essential reading for students in Spanish pragmatics and Spanish linguistics, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis...

The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Second Language Acquisition introduces major current approaches in Arabic Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, and offers empirical findings on crucial aspects and issues to do with the learning of Arabic as a foreign language, and Arabic SLA...

Salience in Second Language Acquisition comprehensively brings together contributions from top SLA scholars in the first volume to focus exclusively on existing and current research on salience. A valuable resource, it defines and explores what makes a linguistic feature salient in sections on theor..

Salience in Second Language Acquisition comprehensively brings together contributions from top SLA scholars in the first volume to focus exclusively on existing and current research on salience. A valuable resource, it defines and explores what makes a linguistic feature salient in sections on theor..

This module on SLA provides teachers with a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to key findings in the field, exploring mechanisms in the mind responsible for language acquisition, the roles that input and output play, how language develops in the learner’s mind over time, and the many factors..

Offers the complete beginner a clear and concise overview of the field of second language acquisition theories...

This is the first book to synthesize Peter Skehan’s theoretical and empirical works in one volume. Organized around three distinct themes (theory, empirical studies, and assessment), this collection of Skehan’s influential body of work provides an updated reflection on the material and makes it rele..