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Principles of Language Learning and Teaching

by H. Douglas Brown

"Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, Fifth Edition, by H. Douglas Brown, is the classic second language acquisition text used by teacher education programs worldwide. Principles introduces key concepts through definitions of terms, thought-provoking questions, charts, and spiraling. New "Classroom Connections" encourage students to consider the implications of research for classroom pedagogy. An up-to-date bibliography and new glossary provide quick access to important works and key terminology in the field. The fifth edition takes a comprehensive look at foundations of language teaching through discussions of the latest research in the field, including: -Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's theories - Thorndike's law of effect - error treatment, noticing, recasts - intercultural communication - language policy and politics - corpus linguistics - "hot topics" in SLA - connectionism and emergentism -flow theory, willingness to communicate - strategies-based instruction - contrastive rhetoric - attribution theory, self-efficacy - output hypothesis."--BOOK JACKET.

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?