Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching highlights important research and evidence-based instructional practices for overcoming the challenges of teaching a second or foreign language alongside another academic subject. 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. Activities help you relate research and theory on content-based language teaching to your own teaching context.
Patsy Lightbown Books
Patsy M. Lightbown, an emerita professor at Concordia University, has dedicated her career to understanding second language acquisition within communicative and content-based educational settings. Her influential research explores the impact of instruction and feedback on how students learn new languages, drawing on contexts from Canadian elementary schools to bilingual classrooms in the U.S. Co-author of the seminal work "How Languages are Learned" with Nina Spada, her contributions have significantly shaped the field of applied linguistics.



How Languages are Learned
- 152 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Provides teachers with a comprehensive introduction to first and second language acquisition. The authors believe that by understanding research and theories on how languages are learned, teachers will be better able to judge the merits of different teachi