The volume provides an up-to-date account of theory and research on the role of individual variables in the process of learning and teaching foreign languages. It aims to capture the relationship between individual learner differences and other variables.

This volume approaches second language phonology via the English sound system as used by native and non-native speakers. Readers will find a unique combination of psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and pedagogical approaches.

This book explores cross-linguistic influences in the context of multilingual language acquisition, discussing syntactic and lexical development of foreign language learners from different L1 backgrounds, such as Russian, Croatian, Greek and Portuguese.

Contains theoretical and empirical research on foreign or second language processes analyzed from the perspective of cognition and affect. This title consists of articles devoted to various issued related to such broad topics as gender, literacy, translation or culture, to mention a few.

This book covers topics as English as lingua franca, foreign language teacher training, individual learner differences in language learning and teaching, literary translation, translator strategies, dictionary use, translator training and more.

This volume collects papers related to different aspects of classroom-oriented research on teaching and learning second and foreign languages. It provides important guidelines for researchers interested in conducting their own classroom-oriented research.

The papers included in the volume look at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners. The book focuses on questions such as how much linguistic knowledge is open to the learner's conscious experience, what should and should not be considered the knowledge of language, how language awareness can be enhanced in the classroom, and, most crucially, what effects language awareness has on attained proficiency. Some papers in the volume also address methodological challenges of researching language awareness, such as the difficulty of...

This volume brings together papers on a wide spectrum of topics within the broad area of language acquisition, stressing the interconnections between applied and theoretical linguistics, as well as language research methodology. These contributions in honor of Professor Jan Majer have been grouped in two sections: language learning, and discourse and communication. The former discusses issues varying from aspects of first, second, and third language acquisition, individual learner differences (i.e. gender, attitudes, learning strategies), and second language research methodology to the...

The book aims to dispel some of the myths surrounding the place of oral and written error correction in language education by providing an exhaustive and up-to-date account of issues involved in this area, taking the stance that the provision of corrective feedback constitutes an integral part of form-focused instruction. This account places an equal emphasis on the relevant theoretical claims, the most recent research findings and everyday pedagogical concerns, particularly as they apply to the teaching of additional languages in the foreign language setting. The book will be of relevance...