(Paperback, 2nd edition)

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

(Paperback)

An argument that the way we listen to speech is shaped by our experience with our native language.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Offers an overview of research and innovations in corpus-based and corpus-driven language teaching and learning. This book focusses on innovative uses of corpora by language teachers and learners. It also focuses on various corpus-based tools for LSP learning. It illustrates research findings from corpora consisting of language learner data.

(Hardback)

Offers a conversation analysis based exploration of the role of online chat in supporting the teaching and learning of foreign languages. This book contributes to our understanding of how conversation in a foreign language unfolds between native speakers and learners in an online social environment, rather than in the classroom.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

A book-length exploration of the role of online chat in supporting the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It takes a Conversation Analysis approach, which is new to online Second Language Acquisition. It provides insights into how native speakers and learners pursue the learning of foreign language and culture during online text chat.

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

This book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition. It goes on to refine the theory by revisiting and challenging the traditional assumptions that underlie it, based on cross-linguistic language data that cover a range of syntactic and phonological phenomena.

(Paperback)

How do children learn to produce language sound patterns and what errors do they make Assuming only an undergraduate background in phonology, child speech patterns and their analogues across adult languages are used to discuss Optimality Theory. It also investigated how phonological learning interacts with other aspects of language acquisition.

(Hardback)

How do children learn to produce language sound patterns and what errors do they make Assuming only an undergraduate background in phonology, child speech patterns and their analogues across adult languages are used to discuss Optimality Theory. It also investigated how phonological learning interacts with other aspects of language acquisition.

(Hardback)

Enriches Possible Worlds Theory and stylistics by using reader response data and stylistic analysis in a framework of textual possible and actual worlds to explore how literary texts affect readers emotions.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

Processing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning. This book compares student assessment after traditional grammar instruction and after Processing Instruction to assess the positive benefits of this method of second language teaching.

(Hardback)

This book is a guide for language researchers who are considering the adoption of a transdisciplinary and multidimensional approach to language research. It aims to provide a n overview of each of the most popular physiological methods today, along with their applications in research, and basic data collection procedures.

(Paperback)

Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language.

(Hardback)

Raising Multilingual Children: Foreign Language Acquisition and Children elucidates how children learn foreign languages and when they can do so with the best results.

(Hardback)

Through its constuctivist orientation and Sociocultural perspective, this book contributes to an improved understanding of what it means to read and, particularly, to recall, second language texts in the context of both second language reading and research.

(Paperback)

Through its constuctivist orientation and Sociocultural perspective, this book contributes to an improved understanding of what it means to read and, particularly, to recall, second language texts in the context of both second language reading and research.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Hardback)