How Languages are Learned: Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers. This item is unavailable.How Languages are Learned: Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers

This book is part of the Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers series. This highly regarded series covers the topics language teachers want to know more about. Recommended for reference, or for language teacher educators to use as a basis for teacher education courses or seminars.

Patsy M. Lightbown is Distinguished Professor Emerita, Applied Linguistics, at Concordia University, Montreal. For more than thirty-five years, she has studied how different types of input and instruction affect second-language acquisition, especially in classrooms where the emphasis is on 'communicative' or 'content-based' language teaching. The contexts for her research have included the teaching of English to French-speaking students in Canada as well as dual or 'two-way' immersion classes in the U.S. Her forthcoming book Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching will appear in the Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom series, which she is co-editing with Nina Spada.