A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning

This book has two major themes: firstly, it discusses psycholinguistic and cognitive aspects of language learning, and secondly, it looks at the contrast between universalist accounts of language learning and accounts which focus on individual differences between learners. Interwoven throughout is a focus on practical applications of these themes in task-based learning and language testing.The series attracts single or co-authored volumes from authors researching at the cutting edge of this dynamic field of interdisciplinary enquiry. The titles range from books that make such developments accessible to the non-specialist reader to those which explore in depth their relevance for the way language is to be conceived as a subject, and how courses and classroom activities are to be designed. As such, these books not only extend the field of applied linguistics itself and lend an additional significance to its enquiries, but also provide an indispensable professional foundation for language pedagogy and its practice.

The scope of the series includes:

   second language acquisition

   bilingualism and multi/plurilingualism

   language pedagogy and teacher education

   testing and assessment

   language planning and policy

   language internationalization

   technology-mediated communication

   discourse-, conversation-, and contrastive-analysis

   pragmatics

   stylistics

   lexicography

   translation