Principles of Language Learning and Teaching , Fifth Edition, by H. Douglas Brown, is the classic second language acquisition text used by teacher education programs worldwide. Principles introduces key concepts through definitions of terms, thought-provoking questions, charts, and spiraling. New "Classroom Connections" encourage students to consider the implications of research for classroom pedagogy. An up-to-date bibliography and new glossary provide quick access to important works and key terminology in the field. The fifth edition takes a comprehensive look at foundations of language teaching through discussions of the latest research in the field, including: • Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's theories • Thorndike's law of effect • error treatment, noticing, recasts • intercultural communication • language policy and politics • corpus linguistics • "hot topics" in SLA • connectionism and emergentism • flow theory, willingness to communicate • strategies-based instruction • contrastive rhetoric • attribution theory, self-efficacy • output hypothesis Also by H. Douglas Brown: Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning English