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Second Language Acquisition eBook Series

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  • Lexical Errors and Accuracy in Foreign Language Writing

    by María del Pilar Agustín Llach ...
    Series Book 58 - Second Language Acquisition
    Lexical errors are a determinant in gaining insight into vocabulary acquisition, vocabulary use and writing quality assessment. Lexical errors are very frequent in the written production of young EFL learners, but they decrease as learners gain proficiency. Misspellings are the most common category, but formal errors give way to semantic-based lexical errors as proficiency increases, likewise, the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Acquisition of Heritage Languages

    by Silvina Montrul ...
    Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage language does not fully develop. In the last decade, the acquisition of heritage languages has become a central focus of study within linguistics and applied linguistics. This work centres on the grammatical ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • WorldCALL: Sustainability and Computer-Assisted Language Learning

    Edited by Senior Lecturer Ana María Gimeno Sanz, Mike Levy, Senior Lecturer Françoise Blin, David Barr ...
    Series series Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching
    This volume focuses on computer- and digitally-assisted language learning in all of its forms: technology-enhanced language learning, network-based language learning, mobile-assisted language learning and so on, in close relation to the topic of sustainability. How can these technologies and techniques be implemented in a sustainable and repeatable way? The book covers a wide range of areas in ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • New Perspectives on Transfer in Second Language Learning

    Edited by Prof. Liming Yu, Dr. Terence Odlin ...
    Series Book 92 - Second Language Acquisition
    When people attempt to learn a new language, the language(s) they already know can help but also hinder their understanding or production of new forms. This phenomenon, known as language transfer, is the focus of this book. The collection offers new theoretical perspectives, some in the empirical studies and some in other chapters, and consists of four sections considering lexical, syntactic, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Reading Development and Difficulties in Monolingual and Bilingual Chinese Children

    Edited by Xi Chen, Qiuying Wang, Yang Cathy Luo ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume explores Chinese reading development, focusing on children in Chinese societies and bilingual Chinese-speaking children in Western societies. The book is structured around four themes: psycholinguistic study of reading, reading disability, bilingual and biliteracy development, and Chinese children’s literature. It discusses issues that are pertinent to improving language and literacy ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Acquisition of «be» by Cantonese ESL Learners in Hong Kong- and its Pedagogical Implications

    by Mable Chan ...
    The present study examines grammaticality judgment data, production data and acceptability judgment data from 243 Cantonese second language learners and a control group of 12 native English speakers. Research areas concern (a) the role of the first language in the acquisition of be by Cantonese second language learners; (b) the question if properties associated with be remain persistently ... Read more

    $131.99 USD

  • Der C-Test: Aktuelle Tendenzen / The C-Test: Current Trends

    Aktuelle Tendenzen / Current Trends

    Edited by Rüdiger Grotjahn ...
    Series Book 34 - Language Testing and Evaluation
    C-Tests bestehen aus mehreren kurzen Texten, in denen fehlende Wortteile zu rekonstruieren sind. Sie haben hervorragende psychometrische Eigenschaften und werden in einer Vielzahl von Kontexten zur ökonomischen Messung von (allgemeiner) Sprachkompetenz eingesetzt. Dieser Band illustriert den aktuellen Stand der C-Test-Forschung. Der Fokus liegt auf Augenscheingültigkeit und Washback von C-Tests; C ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education

    Expanding Meaning-Making Potentials

    by Dr. Erin Kearney ...
    Series Book 28 - Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
    Winner of the 2015-16 Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize awarded by the Modern Language AssociationMany educators aim to engage students in deeply meaningful learning in the language classroom, often facing challenges to connect the students with the culture of the language they are learning. This book aims to demonstrate that substantial intercultural learning can and does occur in the modern language ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Strategic Language Learning

    by GAO, Xuesong (Andy) ...
    This monograph reports on a longitudinal inquiry into mainland Chinese undergraduates language learning experiences in an English medium university. The inquiry reveals dynamic interaction between agency and contextual conditions underlying the participants strategic learning efforts in a multilingual setting. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition

    Edited by Rosa Alonso Alonso ...
    Series Book 95 - Second Language Acquisition
    This volume provides an unprecedented insight into current approaches to crosslinguistic influence (CLI). The collection investigates a range of themes including linguistic relativity, the possible contributions of neurolinguistics, the problem of cognitive development and the role of the frequency of structures in acquisition from distinct, overlapping and complementary perspectives. Chapters ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Approaching Language Transfer through Text Classification

    Explorations in the Detection-based Approach

    Edited by Dr. Scott Jarvis, Scott A. Crossley ...
    Series Book 64 - Second Language Acquisition
    Recent work has pointed to the need for a detection-based approach to transfer capable of discovering elusive crosslinguistic effects through the use of human judges and computer classifiers that can learn to predict learners’ language backgrounds based on their patterns of language use. This book addresses that need. It details the nature of the detection-based approach, discusses how this ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Developing Interactional Competence in a Japanese Study Abroad Context

    by Naoko Taguchi ...
    Series Book 88 - Second Language Acquisition
    In the process of second language acquisition, the ability to interact effectively is critical. But what does it mean to be interactively competent? This book addresses this question by presenting research on the development of interactional competence among learners of Japanese as a second language. Qualitative data collected on learners studying abroad in Japan is evaluated to explain changes in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD