Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition describes the effect that word frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication in a ...

Third or Additional Language Acquisition examines research on the acquisition of languages beyond the L2 within four main areas of inquiry: crosslinguistic ...

This volume seeks to review and stimulate interest in emerging and fresh topics in contemporary tourist behaviour and experience. Topics explored include ...

This book examines the ethnic, gendered and embodied 'hybrid' identities of 'half-Japanese' girls in Japan. The girls struggle to positively construct ...

Rising recognition of semantic and pragmatic disabilities in children with specific language impairment has created a demand for a satisfactory framework ...

This practical book will be useful for teaching professional working in linguistically diverse classrooms. It includes accounts of 'mainstreaming' from ...

This book focuses on the use of the L1 in communicative or immersion-type classrooms. Through the intersection of theory, practice, curriculum and policy ...

Until recently, the history of debates about language and thought has been a history of thinking of language in the singular. The purpose of this volume ...

This ethnographic study of a California English as a Second Language program explores how the gendered life experiences of immigrant adults shape their ...

This groundbreaking book examines the relationship between power, culture and tourism in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Australia and South ...