Second language acquisition has an identity problem. It is a young field struggling to
emerge from the parent fields of education and applied linguistics. In his new book …

Preliminqry Chopter: Becoming Fomiliqr with the Profession qnd Expectotions for Longuoge
Teochers his preLiflin. rn chapier r, rLro. luces the lircign languagc Profession bv describing …

Materials development has become much more important in the field of TESOL in the last
twenty years: modules on materials development are now commonplace on MA TESOL …

If we want to understand where we are now, we need to consider where we have come from.
This statement constitutes the strongest rationale for the study of history. It is relevant to any …

A cognitivist approach to cognition has traditionally dominated second language acquisition
(SLA) studies. In this article, I examine two alternative approaches—extended cognition and …

This article reports on a study that comparatively investigated the differences and similarities
in the (incorrect) use of cohesive devices by second-year and fourth-year undergraduate …

Based on an innovative corpus-based approach, this book offers a comprehensive survey of
the phonological and phonetic properties of L2 speech in English and German. The first part …

As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic
diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an …

This book brings together linguistic, psycholinguistic and educational perspectives on the
phenomenon of cognate vocabulary across languages. It presents a large-scale, long-term …

This very original, inspirational book globalises our understanding of languages in
education and changes our understanding of bilingual and multilingual education from …