Language Development

This title brings together in one volume a comprehensive account and critical analysis of testing second language speaking. It contains a wealth of examples including task types that are commonly used in speaking tests, approaches to researching speaking tests, and specific methodologies that teache..

This title brings together in one volume a comprehensive account and critical analysis of testing second language speaking. It contains a wealth of examples including task types that are commonly used in speaking tests, approaches to researching speaking tests, and specific methodologies that teache..

Regarded as the definitive reader for the study of bilingualism, this new edition has been updated to include nine new chapters and postscripts written by the authors of the original articles, who evaluate them in the light of current research...

Regarded as the definitive reader for the study of bilingualism, this new edition has been updated to include nine new chapters and postscripts written by the authors of the original articles, who evaluate them in the light of current research...

This is the essential guide for students of child language acquisition and development. Focusing on the important issues and debates in the field, the book draws together key articles and places them within their thematic and social contexts...

Details theoretical and methodological advances in the study of language acquisition as an emerging, rather than built-in, capacity, addressing levels of language from phonology to social interaction. For linguists, psycholinguists, and developmentalists..

Oller constructs a new infrastructural model of vocal communication systems that permits provocative reconceptualizations of the ways infant vocalizations progress systematically toward speech, insightful comparaisons between....

A unique book integrating research in language aquisition, psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we call 'comprehension'. The empahsis of the book is on children with specific language impairments...