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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Patsy Martin Lightbown</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="North_Carolina" title="North Carolina">North Carolina</a>, US</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Distinguished Professor Emerita of Concordia University</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known&nbsp;for</th><td class="infobox-data">Second Language Acquisition</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data">1988: SPEAQ Award
<p>1993: First Place in the English Speaking Union's Duke of Edinburgh Book Prize in Applied Linguistics
2001: Concordia University Alumni Association's Award for Excellence in Teaching
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2014: Honorary Lifetime Membership, Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic background</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data">University of North Carolina at Greensboro
<p>Yale University
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Columbia University</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Academic work</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Discipline</th><td class="infobox-data">Applied Psycholinguistics</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://davidlightbown.com/patsylightbown/">http://davidlightbown.com/patsylightbown/</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><b>Patsy M. Lightbown</b> (born 1944 in North Carolina, USA) is an American <a href="Applied_linguistics" title="Applied linguistics">applied linguist</a> whose research focuses on the teaching and acquisition of second and/or foreign languages in a classroom context. Her <a href="Theories_of_second-language_acquisition" title="Theories of second-language acquisition">theories of second language acquisition</a> earned her the SPEAQ Award for "contributions which have had an impact on the entire English (second language) teaching community in Quebec".<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She served in the <a href="Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps">United States Peace Corps</a> in Niger, West Africa from 1965 to 1967. In her more than forty years in the field she has taught at multiple universities across the United States, Australia and Canada. She holds the title of <a href="Emeritus" title="Emeritus">Distinguished Professor Emerita</a> at <a href="Concordia_University" title="Concordia University">Concordia University</a> in <a href="Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal, Quebec</a>. She has written seven published books and has been featured in many book chapters and refereed journals. She currently works as an independent consultant, editor, researcher and writing in <a href="Second-language_acquisition" title="Second-language acquisition">second language acquisition</a> and learning.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div>
<p>Lightbown was born in 1944 in North Carolina. She received a <a href="Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> <a href="Latin_honors" title="Latin honors">cum laude</a> in <a href="French_language" title="French language">French language</a> in 1965 from the <a href="University_of_North_Carolina_at_Greensboro" title="University of North Carolina at Greensboro">University of North Carolina at Greensboro</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She then went on to achieve her Certificate in French at <a href="Hamilton_College" title="Hamilton College">Hamilton College</a>, spending her junior year in France in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>A few years later, Lightbown went on to obtain an M.A.T. in French at <a href="Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> in 1968.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She received a Master of Education in <a href="Teaching_English_as_a_second_or_foreign_language" title="Teaching English as a second or foreign language">teaching English as a second or other language</a> from Columbia University in 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was awarded a Ph.D. in psycholinguistics from Columbia University in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2></div>
<p>Lightbown enrolled in the United States Peace Corps from July 1965 to June 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was deployed in Niger, West Africa as a public health worker.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her experience would later help her identify and contribute to educational and humanitarian projects, like <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://nadpartners.org/">NAD</a>, an education, training and community development complex located in <a href="Lab%C3%A9" title="Labé">Labé, Guinea.</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>From 1974 to 2001, Lightbown would work at <a href="Concordia_University" title="Concordia University">Concordia University</a> in the Applied Linguistics/TESL Centre. She would also work as a visiting professor at <a href="Northern_Arizona_University" title="Northern Arizona University">Northern Arizona University</a>, <a href="Michigan_State_University" title="Michigan State University">Michigan State University</a>, <a href="Pennsylvania_State_University" title="Pennsylvania State University">Pennsylvania State University</a>, <a href="La_Trobe_University" title="La Trobe University">La Trobe University</a> in <a href="Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne, Australia</a>, and <a href="McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a>. She currently works as an independent writer and editor. She is frequently consulted by schools, universities, publishers and government agencies in areas related to second language acquisition and foreign language teaching.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Throughout her career, Lightbown also volunteered as a consultant for the Centre scolaire et de sauté Néné Aissatou Diallo (CSS-NAD) in Labé, Guinea, West Africa as they built their primary school programming.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She holds positions as a member of the Oxford University Press Expert Panel that launched in 2019, was a co-editor along with Nina Spada for the Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom (2014–2019). Lightbown also held a consultant role in 2003 to WGBH, the local television station in Boston, that created a language learning video series.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Lightbown wrote for a series called <i>RENEW</i> in 2001–2002 that was distributed to teachers in Quebec.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the year 1973 up until 2017 she has contributed over thirty chapters to books.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1974 to 2020, she authored and or collaborated on over fifty articles in both English and French and across academic journals ranging from <i>TESL Canada Journal</i>, <i>Working Papers on Bilingualism</i>, and the <i><a href="Canadian_Modern_Language_Review" title="Canadian Modern Language Review">Canadian Modern Language Review</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>She was also past president, president, vice president and program chair of the <a href="American_Association_for_Applied_Linguistics" title="American Association for Applied Linguistics">American Association for Applied Linguistics</a> between the years of 1998–2001.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, she became a <a href="Emeritus" title="Emeritus">Distinguished Professor Emerita</a> of <a href="Concordia_University" title="Concordia University">Concordia University</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Research">Research</h2></div>
<p>Lightbown's published work includes over fifty books, articles and book chapters on second language acquisition, language teaching and learning in classroom contexts.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She frequently collaborates with Nina Spada and over her career has expanded on <a href="Second-language_acquisition" title="Second-language acquisition">Second Language Acquisition</a> theories that have influenced the way that second language teachers approach their classrooms in more practical ways that are not simply theory. Learning and teaching approaches developed as a result of this collaboration included "communicative approach" and "audiolingual approach", which were presented in the book, <i>How Languages are Learned</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In 2014, Lightbown published <i>Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching</i> to provide insight into the theoretical background of CBLT, some of its benefits and downfalls, and methods for teachers to apply it to their classrooms. Lightbown's goal is to provide a rewarding language learning experience to students in a CBLT environment.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>In Lightbown's latest research with Nina Spada,<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> they expand on some of their previous works on the challenges that face second and foreign language learners. The research is founded on unpacking the ideas behind some older beliefs on both the style of teaching second language learners and their age. It has been thought that once a learner moves closer to the end of their critical period of development that they would lose their ability to become proficient language learners.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This new research that these researchers complied shows evidence that learners who begin learning later actually have an advantage as they pull on the language information that they already have stored from learning and working with their first language.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The research continues to challenge older research and brings up more cons instead of pros for an early introduction to language learning, which was not always the case in Second Language Acquisition theory. Some of these cons include the ideas around consistent use, and Lightbown and Spada spent time reviewing studies that show many students (less than 50%) stopped at an <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.clb-osa.ca/home">A1</a> level of proficiency in their second languages.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Ultimately, the new research suggests a change in the way we approach limiting the students’ use of their first language, increasing instruction time where possible by perhaps including intensive instruction in smaller timeframes instead of small lectures over a longer period of time, and include teaching subjects in the second language to help facilitate interest and context.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>1988: SPEAQ Award (Société pour la promotion de l’enseignement de l’anglais, langue seconde, au Québec) for contributions which have had an impact on the entire English (second language) teaching community in Quebec.</li>
<li>1993:HRH Duke of Edinburgh's English Language Book Award – <i>How Languages Are Learned</i></li>
<li>2001: <a href="Concordia_University" title="Concordia University">Concordia University</a> Alumni Association's Award for Excellence in Teaching.</li>
<li>2014: Honorary Lifetime Membership at the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers</li>
<li>2014: HRH Duke of Edinburgh's English Language Book Award (shortlisted) – <i>Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching</i><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>
<li>2015: British Council Award for ELT Writing runner up for <i>Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching</i><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2></div>
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<ul><li>1975 <i>Structure and variation in child language. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development</i>, 40(2). (with L. Bloom and L. Hood).</li>
<li>1986 <i>Both sides of the desk: Roles and responsibilities in ESL/EFL teaching and learning.</i> [Special Issue]. TESL Canada Journal. (with Eds. S. Firth).</li>
<li>1991 <i>Input, instruction and feedback in second language acquisition.</i> [Special Issue]. Second Language Research, 7(2).</li>
<li>1993 <i>The role of instruction in second language acquisition.</i> [Thematic issue]. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 15(2). (with N. Spada and L. White).</li>
<li>2013 <i>How languages are learned</i>, fourth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with . Spada).</li>
<li>2014 <i>Learning a second language in the classroom</i>. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.</li>
<li>2014 <i>Focus on content-based language teaching</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.</li></ul>
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