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Patsy Martin Lightbown, PhD, has worked for more than forty years in the fields of language teaching and language learning. Her research has focused on the teaching and learning of second and foreign languages in classroom contexts.

Distinguished Professor Emerita at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, she is a writer and editor as well as a consultant and advisor to teachers, policy makers, curriculum developers, administrators, and evaluators of second and foreign language instructional programs (K-12, adult education, and university levels).

Professor Lightbown is co-author (with Nina Spada) of How Languages Are Learned.

The fifth edition of this award-winning Oxford University Press book was published in 2021; it is used in teacher education and applied linguistics courses throughout the world.

Her 2014 book Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching (Oxford University Press) was shortlisted for the English Speaking Union’s Duke of Edinbur