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Patsy Lightbown

    January 1, 1944

    Patsy M. Lightbown, an emerita professor at Concordia University, has dedicated her career to understanding second language acquisition within communicative and content-based educational settings. Her influential research explores the impact of instruction and feedback on how students learn new languages, drawing on contexts from Canadian elementary schools to bilingual classrooms in the U.S. Co-author of the seminal work "How Languages are Learned" with Nina Spada, her contributions have significantly shaped the field of applied linguistics.

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    How Languages are Learned
    Focus On Content Based Language Teaching : Research-led guide examining instructional practices that address the challenges of content-based language teaching
    • Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching highlights important research and evidence-based instructional practices for overcoming the challenges of teaching a second or foreign language alongside another academic subject. Extracts from classroom data provide real-life examples of teachers and students interacting with each other in different approaches to content-based language teaching, showing how theory relates to practice. Activities help you relate research and theory on content-based language teaching to your own teaching context.

      Focus On Content Based Language Teaching : Research-led guide examining instructional practices that address the challenges of content-based language teaching
    • How Languages are Learned

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
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      This accessible introduction presents key theories of first and second language acquisition and their practical classroom applications, helping teachers evaluate various methods effectively. The revised practical section addresses diverse learner backgrounds and includes recent theories, activities, and projects for both new and experienced educators.

      How Languages are Learned