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Second Language Learning Theories
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2004; US$ 35.00An introduction to the field of second language learning for students without a substantial background in linguistics, this book provides an up-to-date introductory survey of the most active and significant theoretical perspectives on the subject. more...
Beliefs about SLA
Springer 2006; US$ 59.95A collection of articles, which illustrates work on beliefs about SLA, drawing on the thinking of (educational) philosophers and (discursive) psychologists, including Dewey, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and Potter. It gives accounts of starting points, definitions, methods of data collection and analysis, main findings and implications for further research. more...
Online Second Language Acquisition
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00A book-length exploration of the role of online chat in supporting the teaching and learning of foreign languages is well overdue. Tudini's new book takes a Conversation Analysis approach, which is new to online Second Language Acquisition. It provides observable, previously undocumented insights into how native speakers and... more...
Advanced Language Learning
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 49.95'The editor and authors in this volume make a convincing case for focusing on advanced foreign language instruction. Importantly, they invite consideration of this focus as an opportunity to re-examine conventional definitions of the target of instruction. In so doing, readers also learn more about the theories highlighted in this volume, and their... more...
Continuum Companion to Second Language Acquisition
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 160.00The Continuum Companion To Second Language Acquistion is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for advanced students and academics. It offers a comprehensive reference resource: it features an overview of key topics in SLA as well the key research methods. It then goes on to look at current research areas and new directions... more...
Emerging Bilingual Speech
Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 150.00Anna Verschik offers a new perspective on how a previously monolingual community of Russian-speakers in Estonia is rapidly becoming bilingual after the end of the Soviet occupation in 1991. The contact-induced change in Russian under the growing impact of Estonian is analysed in the theoretical framework of code-copying. Changes in linguistic behaviour... more...
Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 188.00Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics provides readers with a much-needed insight into the development of pragmatic competence, an area of research long neglected in interlanguage pragmatics. The longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of requests, offers and refusals of offers elicited from... more...
The Acquisition of Diminutives
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 180.00This cross-linguistic volume innovates research of the acquisition of diminutives in the inflecting-fusional languages Lithuanian, Russian, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Spanish, German and Dutch, the agglutinating languages Turkish, Hungarian and Finnish and in the introflecting Hebrew. These languages differ in various aspects relevant for the acquisition... more...
The Acquisition of Direct Object Scrambling and Clitic Placement
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 143.00This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the “real time acquisition” of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of the Modularity Hypothesis. Real time development is explained... more...
The Acquisition of French
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 173.00This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations ? first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Impairment ? within the theoretical framework of generative grammar. This approach... more...









