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• How Languages Are LearnedPatsy M. Lightbown

  How Languages Are Learned

  Patsy M. Lightbown

  A short, widely used introduction to research on how learners acquire a second language, aimed at teachers and students; written with Nina Spada in earlier editions.

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• Principles of Language Learning and TeachingH. Douglas Brown

  Principles of Language Learning and Teaching

  H. Douglas Brown

  An early, influential survey that set out principles of second language learning and teaching and became a standard teacher-training text.

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• Principles and Practice in Second Language AcquisitionStephen D. Krashen

  Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Sets out Krashen's input hypothesis, monitor model and affective filter, which shaped debate on the role of conscious grammar study.

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• Teaching Foreign-language SkillsWilga M. Rivers

  Teaching Foreign-language Skills

  Wilga M. Rivers

  A foundational teaching text that treats listening, speaking, reading and writing as connected skills and critiques purely drill-based method.

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• Linguistics in Language TeachingDavid Arthur Wilkins

  Linguistics in Language Teaching

  David Arthur Wilkins

  Links linguistic analysis of meaning and use to syllabus design, including notional and functional approaches to language teaching.

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