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 comnprehensive look at foundations of language teaching through discussions of the latest research in the field, including: Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's theories Thorndike's law of effect error treatment, noticing, recasts intercultural communication language policy and politics corpus linguistics "hot topics" in SLA connectionism and emergentism flow theory, willingness to communicate strategies-based instruction contrastive rhetoric attribution theory, self-efficacy output hypothesis Also by H. Douglas Brown: Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning EnglishH. Douglas Brown is the author of 'Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (5th Edition)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780131991286 and ISBN 0131991280.