How languages are learned /

Lightbown, Patsy.

How languages are learned / Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada. - Fourth edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017. - ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - 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.

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Second language acquisition.
Language acquisition.
Language transfer (Language learning)
Interlanguage (Language learning)

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