Focus on Content-based Language Teaching - Paperback

by Patsy M. Lightbown (Joint Author)

Shortlisted for the 2014 HRH The Duke of Edinburgh English Language Book Awards Highly Commended/Runner-up The British Council ELT Writing Award 2015 Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching highlights important research and evidence-based instructional practices that can overcome these challenges. Extracts from classroom data provide real-life examples of teachers and students interacting with each other in different approaches to content-based language teaching, showing how theory relates to practice. The book includes: Spotlight Studies, highlighting important research on learning and teaching Classroom Snapshots, featuring descriptions of teachers and students engaged in different approaches to learning and teaching Activities which encourage comparison and reflection, helping you to relate research and theory on content-based language teaching to your own teaching context. This book is part of the Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom series, focusing on key topics for teaching English as a second or foreign language. These research-led instructional guides link the theories of second language acquisition and pedagogy with classroom practice, helping you to reflect on what needs to happen in the language classroom. Extracts from classroom data provide real-life examples of teachers and students interacting with each other in different approaches to content-based language teaching A focus on key classroom-based research studies highlights ways of overcoming the challenges of content-based language teaching Activities help you to relate research and theory on content-based language teaching to your teaching context

Author Biography

Author Patsy M. Lightbown is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics at Concordia University, Montreal. She is co-author of the award-winning emHow Languages are Learned/em, now in its fourth edition.