How long does it take to read Principles of Language Learning and Teaching?
Principles of Language Learning and Teaching by H. Douglas Brown takes about 5 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 316 pages, about 86,900 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Study and teaching, Langage, Étude et enseignement, Langage et langues, Taalonderwijs, Acquisition
