The book is an excellent source to all who are involved in foreign language education, from the novice to the experienced teacher. In a reader-friendly style, it presents and discusses important foundations on communicative language teaching (CLT). The language instructor who is familiar with Brown's Teaching Principles will find them rearranged in this edition. In previous editions, Brown presented 12 principles divided into three categories: cognitive, affective, and linguistic. Now this list has been revised: eight principles are presented, instead of 12. The number has been reduced, not because some principles have been discarded, but reconceptualized. Also, the authors do not classify the principles under a category, but still order them from the more individual cognitive psychological ones to principles that emphasize social interactions and the language learner as an agent in a cultural environment. The eight revised principles are: automaticity; transfer; reward; self-regulation; identity and investment; interaction; languaculture; and...
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