Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (5th Edition)
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.Principlesintroduces 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 theoriesThorndike's law of effecterror treatment, noticing, recastsintercultural communicationlanguage policy and politicscorpus linguistics"hot topics" in SLAconnectionism and emergentismflow theory, willingness to communicatestrategies-based instructioncontrastive rhetoricattribution theory, self-efficacyoutput hypothesisAlso by H. Douglas Brown:Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language PedagogyLanguage Assessment: Principles and Classroom PracticesStrategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning English