Books in the Trends in Applied Linguistics [TAL] series

Describes and assesses pronunciation talent in its various dimensions, such as production and perception or the segmental and suprasegmental levels of speech. This title focuses on the psychological and neural correlates of phonetic performance. It investigates behavioral influences such as empathy or motivation.

The aim of this pioneering volume is to advance our understanding of written language learning in instructed second/foreign languageacquisition (SLA). The volume will be of great interest to academics in the disciplines of SLA and second/foreign language (L2) writing.