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Patsy Lightbown is a Canadian applied linguist who’s research focuses on the teaching and acquisition of second and/or foreign languages in a classroom context. Her theories of second language acquisition earned her the SPEAQ Award for "contributions which have had an impact on the entire English (second language) teaching community in Quebec". She served in the United States Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa from 1965 to 1967. In her more than fourty years in the field she’s taught at multiple universities across the United States, Australia and Canada. She holds the title of Distinguished Professor Emerita at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She has 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 second language acquisition and learning.

Education
Lightbown received a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in French language in 1965 from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She then went on to achieve an M.A.T. in French at Yale University in 1968. She received a Masters of Education in Teaching English as a Second or Other Language from Columbia University in 1975. She got her Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics from Columbia University in 1977.

Career
Lightbown enrolled in the United States Peace Corps from July 1965 to June of 1967. She was deployed in Niger, West Africa as a public health worker. Her experience would later help her identify and contribute to educational and humanitarian projects, like NAD, an education, training and community development complex located in Labé, Guinea.

Books

 * 1975 Structure and variation in child language. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 40(2). (with L. Bloom and L. Hood).


 * 1986 Both sides of the desk: Roles and responsibilities in ESL/EFL teaching and learning. [Special Issue]. TESL Canada Journal. (with Eds. S. Firth).
 * 1991 Input, instruction and feedback in second language acquisition. [Special Issue]. Second Language Research, 7(2).
 * 1993 The role of instruction in second language acquisition. [Thematic issue]. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 15(2). (with N. Spada and L. White).
 * 2013 How languages are learned, fourth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with . Spada).
 * 2014 Learning a second language in the classroom. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
 * 2014 Focus on content-based language teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Awards

 * 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.
 * 1993: Duke of Edinburgh Book Prize first place for How Languages Are Learned.
 * 2001: Concordia University Alumni Association’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.
 * 2002: Appointed Distinguished Professor Emerita of Concordia University.
 * 2014: Appointed Honorary Lifetime Membership at the Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers.