In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

The last two decades have seen a significant amount of interest in bilingual language
learning and processing. A number of computational models have also been developed to …

Abstract The Cognition Hypothesis of task-based language learning proposes that
pedagogic tasks be sequenced for learners largely on the basis of increases in their …

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists
and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially …

The LL&LT monograph series publishes monographs as well as edited volumes on applied
and methodological issues in the field of language pedagogy. The focus of the series is on …

There are, however, major debates as to what they bring to this language learning: do they
come with innate, specifically syntactic skills or, rather, with more general cognitive and …

Human linguistic communication differs from the communication of other animal species in
three main ways. First, and most importantly, human linguistic communication is symbolic …

Twenty years ago, a state-of-the-art review in SSLA marked the coming of age of the study of
temporality in second language acquisition. This was followed by three monographs on …

Purpose This 5-year longitudinal study investigated the acquisition of 6 English grammatical
morphemes (ie, regular and irregular past tense, 3rd person singular, progressive aspect …