Lightbown Patsy M. - How Languages are Learned

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Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors and publisher are grateful to those who have given permission to reproduce the following extracts and adaptations of copyright material: p.17 Extract from Language Development and Language Disorders by Lois Bloom and Margaret Lahey (1978). Macmillan Publishers; p.47 Figure from Some issues relating to the Monitor Model by Stephen Krashen, On TESOL (1977). Reprinted by permission of TESOL International Association; p.49 Extract from Constructing an acquisition-based procedure for second language assessment by Manfred Pienemann, Malcolm Johnston, and Geoff Brindley in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 10/2, pp.21743 (1988). Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press; p. 53 Extract from Speeding up acquisition of his/her: Explicit L1/L2 contracts help in Second Language Acquisition and the Younger Learner: Childs Play? by Joanna White (2008) pp.193228. With kind permission of John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia; p.54 Extract from Second language instruction does make a difference by Catherine Doughty in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 13/4, pp.43169 (1991). Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press; p. 136 Reprinted from International Journal of Educational Research, Volume 37 by Merrill Swain and Sharon Lapkin Talking it through: two French immersion learners response to reformulations pp.285304 (2002) with permission from Elsevier; p.139 Extract from Corrective feedback and learner uptake by Roy Lyster and Leila Ranta in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 19/1 pp.3766 (1997). Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press.

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