Agendas for Language Learning Research

Ortega, Lourdes; Cumming, Alister; Ellis, Nick C.

Currents in Language Learning provides programmatic state-of-the-art overviews of current issues in the language sciences and their applications in first, second, and bi/multilingual language acquisition in naturalistic and tutored contexts.

• Draws on interdisciplinary perspectives from linguistics, psychology, education, anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, and neuroscience
• Brings together a team of leading linguists to explore current issues
• Develops research agendas in areas including: progress and relevance in second language acquisition; usage-based linguistics; age effects in language learning; second language pragmatics; vocabulary knowledge; transfer of learning in second language instruction; language, literacy, and culture; academic language development in schools; practice theory; and evolutionary perspectives on language

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2013-03-18

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781118590706

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Dimensions: 228.6cm x152.4cm

Pages: 224.0