Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 275 p. How are languages represented in the human brain? Ideas from neuroscience have increasingly been applied to the study of language, exploring the neural processes involved in acquisition, maintenance and loss of language and languages, and the interaction between languages in bi- and multilingual speakers. With a sharp focus on...
Multilingual Matters, 1992. — 200 p. The book aims to establish the concept of attitudes as more central to the study of minority and majority languages. The strong tradition of attitude theory and research from social psychology is made relevant to language restoration and decay. Original research shows how attitude to bilingualism is conceptually distinct from attitude to a...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — 237 p. — (The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series. Volume 2) — ISBN: 3319229907 It is common to make an analogy between mental structures and computational mechanisms in linguistics literature. We speak of the ‘input’ the mind receives and the ‘output’ it produces. We attempt to understand the mental ‘processes’ during...
Multilingual Matters, 2011. — 216 pages. — ISBN: 978-1-84769-326-6 Taking a different perspective to traditional case studies on one bilingual child, this book discusses the whole family and the realities of life with two or more children and languages. What do we know about the language patterns of children in a growing and evolving bilingual family? Which languages do the...
Padstow: Blackwell Publishers, 2004. — 884 p. — (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics). Notes on Contributors Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie Overview and Foundations Tej K. Bhatia Foundations of Bilingualism John Edwards Studying Bilinguals: Methodological and Conceptual Issues François Grosjean Neurological and Psychological Aspects of Bilingualism William C. Ritchie...
Multilingual Matters, 2005. — 168 p. In research on language and aging there are traditionally two streams, one that focuses on language spoken in interaction with elderly people ('elderspeak') and one that focuses on language skills in the elderly. In this book we present a dynamic systems perspective on language and aging looking at language in aging as a normal process of...
Springer, 2021. — 236 p. This book demonstrates how resources taken from positive psychology can benefit both teachers and learners. Positive psychology is the empirical study of how people thrive and flourish. This book explores a range of topics, such as affectivity and positive emotions, engagement, enjoyment, empathy, positive institutions, a positive L2 self-system, as...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 422 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-50858-5 Code-switching - the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a bilingual speaker - is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that generates a great deal of pointed discussion in the public domain. This handbook provides the most comprehensive guide to this...
Routledge, 2023. — 215 p. — ISBN 978- 0- 367- 41701- 7. Butler and Huang’s book is one of the first to focus on second language (L2) development research methods and techniques specifically targeted at children of primary and pre-primary years.The last decade has seen a growing number of L2 studies of children aged 4–12, a demographic with special developmental characteristics...
Dordrecht: Springer, 2007. — 275 p. — (Studies in theoretical Psycholinguistics. Volume 37). Bilingualism and Bilingual First. Language Acquisition. Early mixing. The theoretical framework. Code-switching. Data. The analysis of early mixing. The analysis of code-switching. Findings and conclusions.
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 407 p. This book deals with the question of how children exposed to two languages simultaneously from birth learn to speak those two languages. After a critical and comprehensive survey of most of the literature on the subject, the author concludes that empirically well-documented knowledge in this area is very scant indeed. The core of the...
Springer International Publishing, 2016. — 370 p. This book introduces readers to the principles of a fairly new branch of psychology – positive psychology – and demonstrates how they can be applied in the context of second language acquisition in a natural environment and in instructed foreign language (FL) learning. It focuses both on the well-being and success of the learner...
Edward Arnold, 1986. — 224 p. — (Social Psychology of Language, 4). The basic premise underlying a social psychological perspective of second language acquisition is that language is a defining characteristic of the individual. It is involved in one's thoughts, self-communication, social interaction, and perception of the world. Moreover, language is a defining attribute of...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — xii, 242 pages. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-59488-5. It is quite commonplace for bilingual speakers to use two or more languages, dialects or varieties in the same conversation, without any apparent effort. The phenomenon, known as code-switching, has become a major focus of attention in linguistics. This concise and original study explores how, when...
Multilingual Matters, 2004. — x, 240 p. — ISBN: 1-85359-741-4; ISBN: 1-85359-740-6. This book explores two main areas. First, what a high level of proficiency in two languages consists of, and second, what factors can produce this high level of bilingual proficiency. Higher level language is usually acquired at school, but many minority language students are educated in only...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. — 235 p. Multilingualism, including bilingualism, has become internationally important today because of the increasing interdependence between countries, regions and continents, and because of increasing concern with preserving linguistic and cultural diversity. This book is a comprehensive introduction to research on multilingualism....
Multilingual Matters, 2002. — 192 p. The model presented in this volume draws together various strands of research – second language acquisition theory, bilingualism research, dynamic systems theory – to develop a novel approach to this challenging subject. Its main focus lies on the psycholinguistic dynamics of multilingualism, the processes of change in time affecting two or...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 344 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 555). This book explores nominal dislocations in simultaneous bilingual French and German language acquisition in early childhood. The study shows that this process involves a grammatical area that is not vulnerable to language influence. In addition, empirical analyses provide evidence that postverbal, non-resumptive...
De Gruyter, 2014. — 344 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 555). This book explores nominal dislocations in simultaneous bilingual French and German language acquisition in early childhood. The study shows that this process involves a grammatical area that is not vulnerable to language influence. In addition, empirical analyses provide evidence that postverbal, non-resumptive...
New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007. — 150 p. Bilingualism and Social Context. Is There a Bilingual Mind? The Bilingual Linguistic Organization. Language Switching As a Communication.
Springer, 2016. — 216 pages — (The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series). — ISBN: 978-3-319-47635-3. This volume provides an up-to-date and evaluative review of theoretical and empirical stances on emotion and its close interaction with language and cognition in monolingual and bilingual individuals. Importantly, it presents a novel methodological approach that takes into...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016. — 264 p. — (Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching 5). This edited volume brings together the work of a number of researchers working in the framework of Processability Theory (PT), a psycholinguistic theory of second language acquisition (SLA) (Pienemann 1998; 2005). The aim of the volume is two-fold: It...
3rd ed. — Plural Publishing, Inc., 2019. — 375 p. Language Disorders in Bilingual Children and Adults, Third Edition, provides speech-language pathologists, advanced students in communication disorders programs, and clinical language researchers with information needed to formulate and respond to questions related to effective service delivery to bilingual children and adults...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 610 p. — ISBN: 0195151771. How is language acquired when infants are exposed to multiple language input from birth and when adults are required to learn a second language after early childhood? How do adult bilinguals comprehend and produce words and sentences when their two languages are potentially always active and in competition with one...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. — 198 p. — (Language Learning & Language Teaching 40). Motivation is a key aspect of second language learning. There is no doubt that abstract models are basic to gain theoretical insights into motivation; however, teachers and researchers demand comprehensible explanations for motivation that can help them to improve their everyday...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. — 272 p. In the world today, bilingualism is more common than monolingualism. Thus, the default mental lexicon may in fact be the bilingual lexicon. More than ever, social and technological innovation have created a situation in which lexical knowledge may change dramatically throughout an individual's lifetime. This book offers a new...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 385 p. Bloomsbury Companion To Second Language Acquisition, this book 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...
ITexLi, 2024. — 119 p. — ISBN 1803565438 9781803565439 180356542X 9781803565422 1803565446 9781803565446. This volume will aim to present the process of learning an additional language apart from one’s native language. This book intends to provide readers with language acquisition, language comprehension, language development, language processing, and psychological and social...
Pelican, 2023. — 336 p. You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people speak Spanish, some Mandarin. Some speak poetry, some are fluent in maths. Humans are built for multilingualism. Drawing on cutting-edge research and theory, delivered with wit and lucid insight, psycholinguist Viorica Marian...
Palgrave Pivot, 2023. — 135 p. This book examines a century of research on the relationship between bilingualism and intelligence and relates it to more recent research on bilingualism and executive functioning. In doing so, it highlights how bilingualism research has been understood and used by wider society and its impact on current debates in cognitive science as well as...
John Benjamins Publishing, 2018. — 408 p. This collection brings together leading names in the field of bilingualism research to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Studies in Bilingualism series. Over the last 25 years the study of bilingualism has received a tremendous amount of attention from linguists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists. The breadth...
John Benjamins, 2008. — 325 p. Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage speakers who, unlike adult second language learners,...
Cambridge University Press. 2000. — 306 pages. — ISBN: 0521771684 This book provides an in-depth analysis of the different ways in which bilingual speakers switch from one language to another in the course of conversation. Pieter Muysken identifies three distinct patterns of mixing and explores how different mixing strategies depend on the contrasting grammatical properties of...
Multilingual Matters, 2015. — 288 p. This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large-scale, long-term research project focusing on Polish-English cognates and their use by bilingual and multilingual learners/users of English. It discusses extensive qualitative and...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018. — 162 р. This book addresses a particularly important area of second language acquisition research, specifically the factors that mediate learning outcomes in learning a second or foreign language. It provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of studies in the field of second language learning and L2 use from the point of view of...
Redleaf Press, 2012. — 128 р. Growing research shows that many children from immigrant and refugee families are not doing well in school, due in part to linguistic and cultural disadvantages. Teaching dual-language learners requires cultural sensitivity, an understanding of language acquisition, and intentional teaching strategies. Combining research and techniques, this...
Multilingual Matters, 2009. — 250 pages. — (Bilingual Education & Bilingualism). — ISBN13: 978-1-84769-125-5; ISBN13: 978-1-84769-124-8. How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? The first aim of this volume is to offer up-to-date answers to these questions. Its second...
Living Language, 2008. — 345 p. Raising a Bilingual Child provides parents with information, encouragement, and practical advice for creating a positive bilingual environment. It offers both an overview of why parents should raise their children to speak more than one language and detailed steps parents can take to integrate two languages into their child’s daily routine....
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998. — 384 p. — (Studies in Bilingualism 15). This book marks a new development in the field of second language acquisition research. It explores the way in which language processing mechanisms shape the course of language development. Language Processing and Second Language Development thus adds one major psychological component to the...
Routledge, 2023. — 175 p. Researching Creativity in Second Language Acquisition explains the links between creativity and second language learning and how to propel the research of creativity as an individual difference in second language acquisition forward at multiple levels. It features an array of sample research questions and methods for student and professional...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. — 257 p. This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the properties of nominal expressions in...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 356 p. Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second? Are all instances of non-native language acquisition simply one and the same? In this first book-length study of the topic, the authors systematically walk the reader through the evidence to answer these questions. They suggest that acquiring an additional language in...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2020. — 534 p. Even a cursory look at conference programs and proceedings reveals a burgeoning interest in the field of social and affective factors in home language maintenance and development. To date, however, research on this topic has been published in piecemeal fashion, subsumed under the more general umbrella of 'bilingualism'. Within bilingualism...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019. — 880 p. — ISBN: 9781119387701. The definitive guide to 21st century investigations of multilingual neuroscience. The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism provides a comprehensive survey of neurocognitive investigations of multiple-language speakers. Prominent scholar John W. Schwieter offers a unique collection of works from globally...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 800 p. Bringing together cutting-edge research, this Handbook is the first comprehensive text to examine the pivotal role of working memory in first and second language acquisition, processing, impairments, and training. Authored by a stellar cast of distinguished scholars from around the world, the Handbook provides authoritative insights on...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. — 387 p. — (Studies in Bilingualism 57). The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often...
Multilingual Matters, 2021. — 328 p. This book brings together a diverse range of empirical chapters spanning various contexts and educational levels which explore the psychology of teaching and learning a subject through a second or other language. The chapters discuss both the psychological stressors and strains for learners and teachers, as well as the benefits and joys of...
Springer, 2020. — 230 p. This volume builds upon emergent understandings about educational leadership and policy in hopes of continuing to refine our understanding of what effective leadership means in linguistically and culturally diverse school contexts. The volume seeks to entrench a deeper understanding of the broader leadership policies and practices that promote the...
Multilingual Matters, 2023. — 218 p. This book applies a psycholinguistic perspective to instructed second language acquisition, seeking to bridge the gap between second language acquisition research and language teaching practices. It challenges the traditional divide between conscious and unconscious processes, or explicit and implicit learning, and re-envisions this as a...
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2005. — 336 p. The present volume is a first attempt to do some of this interdisciplinary bridgework. The book grew out of the belief that language and linguistic research is the place to summon anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists of all persuasions in a joint communicative effort. As a preview to the book's lack of orthodoxy, the...
Multilingual Matters, 2012. — 624 p. This volume aims to provide a broad view of second language acquisition within a comparative perspective that addresses results concerning adult and child learners across a variety of source and target languages. It brings together contributions at the forefront of language acquisition research that consider a wide range of open questions:...
Ставрополь: Изд-во СКФУ, 2017. — 111 с. Монография выполнена на английском языке на основе материалов экспериментального исследования студентов, изучающих второй иностранный язык, и посвящена психолингвистическим вопросам когнитивной организации и функционирования ментального лексикона искусственных мультилингвов. Адресована преподавателям, студентам и аспирантам филологических...
М. ; Берлин: Директ-Медиа, 2014. — 162 с. Для специалистов, интересующихся вопросами билингвизма. Может быть использовано для подготовки к занятиям по социолингвистике и психолингвистике. Предисловие Характеристика билингвизма Вступительные замечания Определение билингвизма Критерии выделения типов билингвизма Психологическая типология билингвизма Несколько психофизиологических...
М.: Российский университет дружбы народов, 2015. — 126 с. — ISBN: 978-5-209-07988-0. В монографии дается обзор как теоретического, так и исследовательского материала, связанного с изучением языкового сознания, лексико-семантического поля, а также описывается экспериментальное исследование, проведенное автором для определения основных факторов, влияющих на формирование...
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