The last decade has produced an explosion in neuroscience research examining young
children's early processing of language. Noninvasive, safe functional brain measurements …

Since the 1980s, immigrant children and children of immigrant parentage have become the
fastest growing and the most extraordinarily diverse segment of America's child population …

John Dewey was a pragmatist, progressivist, educator, philosopher, and social reformer
(Gutek, 2014). Dewey's various roles greatly impacted education and he was perhaps one of …

Bilingual experience is dynamic and poses a challenge for researchers to develop
instruments that capture its relevant dimensions. The present study examined responses …

This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of
literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural …

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 …

Now in a fifth edition, this bestselling introductory textbook remains the cornerstone volume
for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). Its chapters have been fully updated …

One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation
immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the …

This chapter examines individual differences in second language (L2) proficiency among
adult learners. Although previous psychometric studies have identified the learner's …

" Bilingualism in Development explores language and cognitive development in bilingual
children, focusing on the preschool years. It begins by defining what we mean by …