1) LANGUAGE ACQUISITION EDITED BY LESLIE M. WARFELT
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate. This new book presents topical research in the study of language acquisition, including teaching language to Spanis students of EFL affected by ADHD; neural network created language; the use, application and challenges of MRI in a speech production study; the interaction between phonology and semantics in children's acquisition of the English plural and child maltreatment effects on language acquisition.
2) ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE EDITED BY DAVID J. ALONSO
English as a second language (ESL) education has gained an increasingly important role in career development in science, business, and industry on the global stage. Language teaching practice often assumes that most of the degree to which their native language differs from English. One great challenge for adult ESL learners is to reduce or eliminate "foreign accent" in the English pronunciation. This book presents current research in the study of ESL, including brain plasticity and phonetic training in ESL; using authentic newspaper texts in teaching intermediate vocabulary in ESL learners; EFL/ ESL teaching in China; and improving reading skills for ESL learners using SoundSpel.
3) DEVELOPING MATERIALS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING EDITED BY BRIAN TOMLINSON
"In this book we offer the informed and reflective practioner as the ideal agent for mediating between the practice and theory of language teaching. Some of the contributors might be labelled teachers, some materials developers, some applied linguists, some teacher trainers and some publishers, but all of them share four things in common: they have all had expereince as teachers of a second or foreign language, they have all contributed to the development of second language materials, they have are all well informed about developments in linguistic and psycholinguistic theory and they all have respect for the teacher as the person with the power to decide what actually happens in the classroom." -Brian Tomlinson
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