For decades, the emotional lexicon has continued to be a subject of interest among
psycholinguistic researchers. More recently, this interest has expanded to the ways in which …

Human behavior is often guided by the development and use of language as a means of
communication and as a way to represent thoughts and knowledge. Notions of linguistic …

Vocabulary is essential for comprehension and achievement across disciplines.
Understanding factors that contribute to vocabulary learning is important, especially for …

The study of emotion has captured the attention of researchers for centuries, yet interest in
this area has grown tremendously within the past decade (see Altarriba 2012). Much of the …

Vocabulary is a building block of understanding, especially in science classrooms where
language abilities are mixed. To reduce academic inequalities, approaches to vocabulary …

Research focused on the study of emotion, specifically how it is mentally represented in the
human memory system, is of great importance within the study of cognition. The current …

A lack of familiarity with the lexical, grammatical, and discursive features associated with
academic language presents comprehension challenges for many adolescent readers …

Language is a cognitive function that is asymmetrically distributed across both hemispheres,
with left dominance for most linguistic operations. One key question of interest in cognitive …

This book analyses the interplay between storytelling (with specific reference to oral
retellings of authentic picture books), language learning, culture and emotions in the EFL …

This chapter explores the ways in which emotion processing, in the form of words, images,
and other stimuli, differs across a bilingual's two languages. Findings from the behavioural …