Applied Linguistics

From Experience to Knowledge in ELT e-Book for Kindle

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Julian Edge and Sue Garton

Each title in the series is intended to serve both as a basis for training courses and seminars, and as a reference text.

Literacy and Second Language Oracy e-book for Kindle

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Elaine Tarone and Martha Bigelow

Understanding English as a Lingua Franca e-book for Kindle

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Barbara Seidlhofer

Input, Interaction, and Corrective Feedback in Learning e-book

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Alison Mackey

A study of the role of language input, interaction, and corrective feedback in second-language learning and Second Language Acquisition research.

This book describes the processes involved in interaction-driven second language learning and presents a methodological framework for studying them.

It provides a comprehensive and up-to date survey of the work on language interaction that has emerged over the past two decades, while also reflecting the recent shift to an exploration of cognitive and social factors in evaluating how interaction works.

Literacy and Second Language Oracy e-book

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Elaine Tarone and Martha Bigelow

This book offers research evidence with a startling conclusion: language processing skills that have been assumed to be universal human traits appear instead to be a product of learners' experience with alphabetic print literacy.

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition e-book

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Zoltán Dörnyei

The Multilingual Subject e-book

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Claire Kramsch

This book explores the subjective aspects of language learning, skillfully integrating multiple levels of analysis, and bridging the gap between theory and practice. It analyzes data gathered from published testimonies and language memoirs of former language learners, spoken and written data from American college language learners, and online data from language learners in electronic chatrooms and text messaging exchanges. The author encourages readers to consider foreign language learning from new, diverse, and unique perspectives.

Understanding English as a Lingua Franca e-book

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Barbara Seidlhofer

A clear explanation of the theories and principles underlying English as a Lingua Franca studies and how they relate to other areas of research.

The number of English speakers in the world continues to grow, but the vast majority are non-native speakers using English to communicate with each other, rather than with native speakers.

This book examines the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) from various perspectives. It explores the various ways in which ELF represents a challenge to the predominance of the native-speaker model, as well as its implications for other fields of linguistic research and for English language teaching.

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition

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Zoltán Dörnyei

The Psychology of Second Language Acquisition offers a systematic and accessible overview of the main psychological areas and theories in order to keep abreast of the ongoing paradigm shift. Readers will find succinct and up-to-date descriptions of a wide range of psycholinguistic and neuropsychological topics such as language and the brain; neuroimaging and other research methods in psycholinguistics and brain research; non-nativist approaches to language acquisition; explicit/implicit learning and memory, procedural/declarative knowledge, and the automatization of language skills; learner characteristics, age effects, and the critical period hypothesis; and the psychological basis of language learning in educational contexts.

Complex Systems and Applied Linguistics

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Diane Larsen-Freeman and Lynne Cameron

This book introduces key concepts in complexity theory and demonstrates the applicability and usefulness of these concepts to a range of areas in applied linguistics, including first and second language development, language teaching, and discourse analysis.