What is the difference between first and second language acquisition? Does personality affect language learning?
The answers to these questions illustrate the topics covered in PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING by H. Douglas Brown.
The book comprehensively integrates theory, research and practice in language teaching. The material stresses the importance of understanding key principles of language learning which enables the instructor to
choose varying methods and techniques for many different situations-rather than depending upon one method for all.
The book helps you to put your theory into practice in the teaching of any modern language. It covers a range of topics and helps you to understand not only how people learn a language but why some people do not learn a language. As the author summarizes, "It provides necessary and sufficient foundation stones for building the capacity to understand, evaluate, and perfect language teaching practices."
Contents: Language, Learning and Teaching; First Language Acquisition; Comparing and Contrasting First and Second Language Acquisition; Human Learning; Cognitive Variations in Language Learning; personality and Language Learning; Sociocultural Variables; Comparing and Contrasting Two Languages; Error Analysis-The Study of Learners' Interlanguage; Discourse Analysis-The Study of the Pragmatic Functions of Language; Foundations of Measurement and Research; From Theory to practice.