Lightbown & Spada (1999, 2009) Language Learning Beliefs Survey adapted by Sumandeep Kaur. High School Research Project Supervised by T. Naves

Lightbown and Spada wrote How Languages are Learned in order to provide information to second language teachers about second language acquisition (SLA) research findings and theoretical views.

The final chapter of the book presents some popular ideas about language learning and then summarizes the research related to that idea. This chapter acts as a summary to the book. It provides a nice balance to the introductory task which asks the reader to agree or disagree with statements such as “The most important factor in second language acquisition success is motivation” (p. xv). This same statement appears in the final chapter with a summary of the research on motivation. This encourages the reader to think about his/her own beliefs about language learning and about the ways in which the research addresses, or does not address, those beliefs.