Patsy Lightbown

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.