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
January 1, 1944
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
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
This series is designed to provide a source of reference for both language teachers and teacher trainers. Each title is intended to serve both as a basis for courses and seminars, and as a longer-term reference text for the working teacher's bookshelf. This is a completely revised and updated edition of this readable introduction to the study of language acquisition. By understanding how languages are learned, teachers will be more able to judge the merits of different teaching methodologies and textbooks, and make the most of the time they spend with learners. How Languages are Learned provides a clear introduction to the main theories of first and second language acquisition and, with the help of activities and questionnaires, discusses their practical impllications for language teaching.
Ako sa učíme jazyky
- 154 pages
- 6 hours of reading