This book offers something unique - a perspective of mind and language where diverse topics are carefully integrated within one framework.

Mike Sharwood Smith is an Emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University and an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has worked in many countries across the world, teaching (applied) linguistics, English language and second language acquisition. He has more than a hundred publications and is known for terms such as 'grammatical consciousness-raising', 'crosslinguistic influence' and 'input-enhancement'. His major interests are the cognitive processes underlying the use and acquisition of languages. With John Truscott, he pioneered a crossdisciplinary framework for framing explanations of many diverse aspects of language acquisition. He is also founding editor of the leading journal Second Language Research.

Introduction; Part I. Mechanisms of the Mind: 1. The basic design; 2. Perception; 3. Motion; 4. Meaning; 5. Affect; 6. Memory, processing and activation; 7. Consciousness and attention; 8. Developing knowledge and ability; Part II. Language(s) in the Mind: 9. Defining language; 10. The core system; 11. Language beyond the core; 12. Two ways of knowing a language; 13. Language and affect; 14. Language development in the monolingual; 15. Becoming multilingual.