This book presents and reviews current theories on multilingual language acquisition and learning as well as multilingual children’s speech...
Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at...
The Spanish language is spoken by an estimated 477 million people worldwide. This volume focuses on the contact between Spanish and other language...
This book examines the use of conversational humor in a second language in the context of study abroad. Using a longitudinal design, naturalistic...
Language acquisition research is challenging—the intricate behavioral and cognitive foundations of speech are difficult to measure objectively. The...
Virtual exchanges provide language learners with a unique opportunity to develop their target language skills, support inter-cultural exchange, and...
This book combines studies on referential as well as relational coherence and includes approaches to written and to spoken language, to production and...