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Child Language Acquisitionby Ben Ambridge; Elena V. M. Lieven
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 38.00An evidence-based review of the central issues in language acquisition research. more...
Second Language Acquisitionby Kees de Bot; Wander Lowie; Marjolojn Verspoor
Routledge 2005; US$ 39.95Second Language Acquisition introduces the key areas in the field, including: multilingualism, the role of teaching, the mental processing of multiple languages, and patterns of growth and decline. more...
Emerging Patterns of Literacyby Rhian Jones
Routledge 1996; US$ 185.00A unique study of parent-infant interactions at home drawing on psychology, linguistics and anthropology. more...
Child Languageby Jean Stilwell Peccei
Routledge 2005; US$ 35.95This comprehensive introduction to child language, introduces students to the key theories of language acquisition and teaches skills for analysing children's language. more...
Language of Childrenby Julia Gillen
Routledge 2003; US$ 25.95From introducing the key theories of language acquisition to children's hand-written stories, with emails and records of babies' first words, this new text explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities. more...
Universal Grammar in Second-Language Acquisitionby Margaret Thomas
Routledge 2004; US$ 173.00This book discusses how scholars in the west have conceived that human languages share important properties, and how westerners have understood the nature of second or foreign language learning. more...
How Children Learn Languageby William O'Grady; Jean Aitchison
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 27.00This engaging and accessible book explains the incredible mastery of language by young children, discussing how they learn to produce and distinguish among sounds, and their acquisition of words and meanings, and of the rules for building sentences. An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to discover how children acquire language. more...
Silence in Second Language Acquistionby Colette A. Granger
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 39.95This text examines the under-researched and often troubling phenomenon of silence in second language learning through a triangulation of SLA research, memoirs and language learner diaries, and psychoanalytic concepts of anxiety, ambivalence, conflict and loss. more...
Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisitionby ZhaoHong Han
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 39.95This text is a systematic attempt to address the issue of fossilization in relation to a fundamental question in second language acquisition research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to? more...
Age, Accent and Experience in Second Language Aquisitionby Alene Moyer
Multilingual Matters 2004; US$ 39.95This work critically addresses the age debate in second language acquisition studies, presenting an in-depth study of factors that predict foreign accent. more...