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Peer reviewedLightbown, Patsy M. – Applied Linguistics, 2000
Following a review of the language teaching practices of the past 50 years, reassess ten second language acquisition (SLA) research generalizations in light of the considerable amount of classroom-based SLA research that has been carried out since 1985, especially that which has addressed pedagogical concerns in primary and secondary school…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Language Research
Peer reviewedSegalowitz, Norman; Lightbown, Patsy M. – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1999
Discusses issues related to psycholinguistics since second-language acquisition (SLA) research has emerged as a scientific discipline. These issues include the debate about the place of an innate universal grammar in language acquisition, basic cognitive mechanisms underlying SLA, and pedagogical implications of recent developments in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Communicative Competence (Languages), Grammar, Language Fluency
Lightbown, Patsy M.; Spada, Nina – 1994
This book is designed to help second and foreign language teachers understand how languages are learned. Chapter 1 examines several theories on how young children acquire their first language, including behaviorist, innatist, and interactionist models. Chapter 2 presents and analyzes several theories on second language (SL) learning. Chapter 3…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
