This book raises issues at the centre of language acquisition research, including first and second language acquisition, language impairment, and cross-linguistic comparisons. It constitutes a valuable reference guide for current work in the field.
Focusing on EFL Reading
Reading in a foreign language is a puzzle, but essential for EFL students whose future may depend on it. This book’s thorough coverage of up-to-date theory, practice, and research is an invaluable resource for researchers and teachers.
New Challenges for Language Testing
This text presents the key aspects of the application of assessment in higher education and the systems of accreditation. It teaches the basic principles of language testing and accreditation, providing cases of how new methods are useful to second language teachers and students.
This overview compares how languages express modality (possibility, necessity) covertly. Drawing on diverse languages, it shows that typical Indo-European patterns are not universal, yet reveals recurrent forms that allow for new generalizations.
New Directions in the Acquisition of Romance Languages
This book presents a selection of papers on Language Acquisition with a special focus on Romance varieties. The volume covers a wide array of topics, including L1 and L2 acquisition, typical and atypical development, syntax, semantics, and phonology.
This collection of essays from an international conference presents important research in linguistics. It explores language theory, cross-cultural communication, pragmatics, translation, and teaching methods. An essential volume for scholars and students.
Of the Students, By the Students, and For the Students
Millions of Chinese college graduates study English for years yet remain unable to communicate. This book exposes a 30-year-old failed program, a practice of insanity, and presents a proven solution: the successful remedial program, Holistic English.
This volume is the first to address the position of Cognitive Linguistics between universality and variability. The state-of-the-art contributions point to innovative avenues for future research, making this volume particularly valuable.
– Günter Radden
World English(es) and the Multilingual Turn
Bonomo considers the social value of communication as the basis of multilingualism and of the evolution of language systems. Her data show English as being in the middle of the double “listening” of cultural mediation and the imperfect “magnifying” glass of translation.
A significant contribution to the phonetics-phonology debate. International researchers analyze phenomena in various languages, juxtaposing different theoretical approaches to shed new light on the sound structure of human language.
This book features papers on the latest developments in corpus-based translation studies, contrastive studies, parallel corpus development, and bilingual lexicography. It is a useful resource for researchers and postgraduates in translation and linguistics.
Future Directions in Applied Linguistics
This volume explores the future of applied linguistics, showing global directions through local contexts. The papers cover key issues in language teaching and social practice, examining the influence of globalisation and the use of technology.
11th Conference on British and American Studies
This volume includes a selection of papers exploring the complex relationship between language and culture. The contributions cover a wide array of topics, from language acquisition and translation to the cultural construction of meaning and identity in literature and art.
Within Language, Beyond Theories (Volume I)
This volume presents current research surpassing contemporary linguistic theories to gain new insights into language. Drawing on data from typologically distinct languages, it addresses hotly debated issues in syntax, morphology, phonology, and more.
Leading phonologists from Asia and America unite in this volume, featuring work from giants like Kiparsky, Archangeli, Pulleyblank, Inkelas, Broselow, and Duanmu San.
The Discourse of Tourism and National Heritage
Stoian studies the field of online tourism promotion, focusing on that of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, looking at two different types of websites—institutional and commercial—from three countries, Romania, Spain and the UK.
Definiteness Effects
This volume explores the definiteness effect in grammar from typological, diachronic, and second language acquisition perspectives. It provides an overview of syntactic, morphological, semantic, and pragmatic approaches in European and non-European languages.
CDA and PDA Made Simple
CDA and PDA Made Simple explores power, control, and ideology in discourse. It provides the theoretical background and analytical tools to see how these forces are linguistically realized in English and Arabic through transitivity, modality, and metadiscourse.
Teaching and Learning English in East Asian Universities
Written by scholars in applied linguistics, these chapters showcase English language teaching and assessing in diverse East Asian contexts. Using a variety of methods, they deal with issues relevant to East Asian teachers, learners, and researchers.
This book represents the first systematic, cross-linguistic analysis of how toddlers learn adjectives. It provides valuable insights into universal and language-specific aspects of language acquisition in a field that has received relatively little attention.