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• Preface to the Fifth Edition
• Chapter 1 Language, Learning, and Teaching
• Questions about Second Language Acquisition
• Learner Characteristics
• Linguistic Factors
• Learning Processes
• Age and Acquisition
• Instructional Variables
• Context
• Purpose
• Rejoicing in Our Defeats
• Language
• Learning and Teaching
• Schools of Thought in Second Language Acquisition
• Structural Linguistics and Behavioral Psychology
• Generative Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology
• Constructivism: A Multidisciplinary Approach
• Nineteen Centuries of Language Teaching
• Language Teaching in the Twentieth Century
• Topics and Questions for Study and Discussion
• Suggested Readings
• Language Learning Experience: Journal Entry
• Guidelines for Entry 1
• Part I Age Factors
• Chapter 2 First Language Acquisition
• Theories of First Language Acquisition
• Behavioral Approaches
• Challenges to Behavioral Approaches
• The Nativist Approach
• Challenges to Nativist Approach
• Functional Approaches
• Issues in First Language Acquisition
• Competence and Performance
• Comprehension and Production
• Nature or Nurture?
• Universals
• Systematicity and Variability
• Language and Thought
• Imitation
• Practice and Frequency
• Input
• Discourse
• First Language Acquisition Insights Applied to Language Teaching
• Topics and Questions for Study and Discussion
• Suggested Readings
• Language Learning Experience: Journal Entry 2
• Chapter 3 Age and Acquisition
• Dispelling Myths
• Types of Comparison and Contrast
• The Critical Period Hypothesis
• Neurobiological Considerations
• Hemispheric Lateralization
• Biological Timetables
• Right-Hemispheric Participation
• Anthropological Evidence
• The Significance of Accent
• Cognitive Considerations
• Affective Considerations
• Linguistics Considerations
• Bilingualism
• Interference Between First and Second Languages
• Order of Acquisition
• Issues in First Language Acquisition Revisited
• Competence and Performance
• Comprehension and Production
• Nature or Nurture?
• Universals
• Systematicity and Variability
• Language and Thought
• Imitation
• Practice and Frequency
• Input
• Discourse
• Some "Age-and-Acquisition-Inspired" Language Teaching Methods
• Total Physical Response
• The Natural Approach, 79
• Topics and Questions for Study and Discussion
• Suggested Readings
• Language Learning Experience: Journal Entry 3
• Part II Psychological Factors
• Chapter 4 Human Learning
• Learning and Training
• Pavlov's Classical Behaviorism
• Skinner's Operant Conditioning
• Ausubel's Subsumption Theory
• Rote vs. Meaningful Learning
• Systematic Forgetting
• Rogers's Humanistic Psychology
• Types of Learning
• Transfer, Interference, and Overgeneralization
• Inductive and Deductive Reasoning
• Language Aptitude
• Intelligence and Language Learning
• Learning Theories in Action: Two Language Teaching Methods in Contrast
• The Audiolingual Method
• Community Language Learning
• Topics and Questions for Study and Discussion
• Suggested Readings
• Language Learning Experience: Journal Entry 4
• Chapter 5 Styles and Strategies
• Process, Style, and Strategy
• Learning Styles
• Field Independence
• Left- and Right-Brain Dominance
• Ambigu