Neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics are providing insights into the processes governing language acquisition, functioning, and production. The editors (U. of Silesia, Poland) introduce a dozen chapters by multidisciplinary, international contributors who discuss foreign language and second language acquisition from these perspectives. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have shed light on the critical period hypothesis and added to debates over the basis of developmental dyslexia. Psycholinguistic studies focus on topics including bilingualism, connectionist and enactivist theories of cognition in understanding the process of practicing writing, gender differences in reading achievement in native and foreign languages, the link between affect and strategic competence, and education language communities. Not indexed. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)