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| How Languages Are Learned (Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers S.)
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Edition: 3
Author: Patsy Lightbown, Nina Spada
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date: 2006-04-13
ISBN-10: 0194422240
ISBN-13: 9780194422246
List Price: $26.75
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This thoroughly updated third edition presents the main theories of language acquisition, considering their bearing on language teaching. It discusses the effects of factors such as intelligence, personality, and age. It helps teachers assess the merits of different methods and textbooks.
This new edition includes more information on theories of first language acquisition and early bilingualism, and the affects of motivation and style.
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| Customer Rating: | | This book was a requirement for my language acquisition course for an upper level class and it was horrible. I had previously taken a class in linguistics at another university and if I hadn't kept that textbook to use as a reference I would have been at a lost. It does not go into much detail and doesn't have very good examples or scenarios of real life cases. If you are getting this book for your own interest, DONT. If you are a professor who is teaching a class for future teachers of ELL, ELD, ESL, or whatever other type of language acquisition class... there has to be a better book out there, don't torture your students please! |
Good for first timers; Not cutting-edge
| Customer Rating: | I have used this book in undergraduate Introduction to Language Learning and Language Teaching courses, as well as in a graduate seminar on language acquistion theory.
As previous reviewers have noted, Lightbown and Spada provide an easy-to-read and accessible text. The third edition expands on the second, and includes more recent variations on several of the language acquisition theories presented in the second edition (I've also used the second edition).
Unfortunately, it is missing some of the current and exciting work that is being done in usage-based theory and discourse analysis, and therefore will become more of a historical review of language acquisition theories as time goes on.
By itself it isn't enough for an entire course, either for language acquisition or teaching methodology. However, L&S deftly connect the dots with regard to how theories drive the thinking behind pedagogy.
I would recommend this book, in addition to other texts and course materials, to anyone teaching in a language teacher training program. |
How Language Are Learned
| Customer Rating: | | The book arrived in excellent shape like I expected. I am very pleased with the produce. |
this book is a chore, bore, snore
| Customer Rating: | | Ugh....while this book is extremely accessible, the best parts of it are the cartoons and they're not that great. This book is required for my course and while I'm interested in theory, I'm not interested in the nitty gritty details that this book tends to list. |
Great Resource
| Customer Rating: | | ...for the study of second language acquisition. Brief and concise, easy and quick read. |
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