How languages are learned /

Lightbown, Patsy M.

How languages are learned / Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada. - Fourth edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2013. - ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Oxford handbooks for language teachers . - Oxford handbooks for language teachers. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-247) and index.

Language learning in early childhood -- Second language learning -- Individual differences in second language learning -- Explaining second language learning -- Observing learning and teaching in the second language classroom -- Second language learning in the classroom -- Popular ideas about language learning revisited.

9780194541268 (pbk.) 0194541266 (pbk.)

2013409235

P118.2 / .L54 2013

418.0071