Product Description: The "New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition" is a thoroughly revised, re-organized, and re-worked edition of Ritchie and Bhatia's 1996 handbook. The work is divided into six parts, each devoted to a different aspect of the study of SLA...read more

In a world in which people are increasingly mobile and ethnically self-aware, questions concerning bilingualism/multilingualism take on increasing importance from both scholarly and practical points of view. Over the last ten years - in which linguistic/ethnic communities that had previously been politically submerged have asserted themselves. These have provided scholars with new opportunities to study the phenomena of individual and societal bilingualism that had been closed to them. At the same time new practical challenges have come up in such areas as language identity and attitudes, language education, language endangerment and loss, and language rights. This volume offers a refreshingly lucid account of these topics. "The Handbook of Bilingualism" provides state-of-the-art treatments of the central issues that arise in consideration of the phenomena of bilingualism, ranging from the representation of the two languages in the bilingual individual's brain to the various forms of bilingual education, including the status of bilingualism in each area of the world.

Product Description: A comprehensive reference source, "Handbook of Second Language Acquisition" discusses the research, theory, and applications specific to second language acquisition. The book addresses: Issues of maturation and modularity; Language transfer between first and second languages; Neuropsychology of second language acquisition; Research and methodological issues in the study of second language acquisition; and language contact and its consequences...read more

Product Description: What allows children to acquire language so effortlessly, with such speed, and with such amazing accuracy? Capitalizing on the most recent developments in linguistics and cognitive psychology, this volume sheds new light on the what, why, and how of the child's ability to acquire one or more languages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)