Content-Based Foreign Language Teaching

Curriculum and Pedagogy for Developing Advanced Thinking and Literacy Skills
Herausgeber: Cammarata, Laurent

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Produktbeschreibung

Pushing the field forward in critically important ways, this book offers clear curricular directions and pedagogical guidelines to transform foreign language classrooms into environments where stimulating intellectual curiosity and tapping critical thinking abilities are as important as developing students' linguistic repertoires. The case is made for content-based instruction-an approach to making FL classrooms sites where intellectually stimulating explorations are the norm rather than the exception. The book explicitly describes in detail how teachers could and should use content-based instruction, explains how integration of content and language aims can be accomplished within a program, identifies essential strategies to support this curricular and pedagogical approach, discusses issues of assessment within this context, and more. Content-Based Foreign Language Teaching provides theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence for reforming curricula and instruction, describes models and curriculum planning strategies that support implementation of well-balanced FL programs, explores the transformative potential of critical pedagogy in the FL classroom, and offers illustrations of secondary and post-secondary language programs that have experimented with alternative approaches. Advancing alternatives to conventional curriculum design, this volume posits meaning-oriented approaches as necessary to create language programs that make a great difference in the overall educational lives of learners

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780415880169
• ISBN-10: 0415880165
• Artikelnr.: 43923236

Autorenporträt

Laurent Cammarata is Associate Professor in Education at the Faculté Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Content-based instruction and curricular reforms: Issues and goals
LAURENT CAMMARATA, DIANE J. TEDICK, & TERRY A. OSBORN
Part 1: Theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence
1. Sociocultural theory and content-based Foreign Language instruction:
Theoretical insights on the challenge of integration
RICHARD DONATO
2. Scaffolding advanced literacy in the foreign language classroom:
Implementing a genre-driven content-based approach
MARIANNA V. RYSHINA-PANKOVA
3. Integrating CBI into high school foreign language classrooms
JOY CUMMING & ROY LYSTER
Part 2: Curriculum development for the thinking-oriented foreign language
classroom
4. Tapping the ACTFL National Standards for a thoughtful approach to
content-based instruction
JASON MARTEL
5. Foreign Language education and the development of inquiry-driven language
programs: Key challenges and curricular planning strategies
LAURENT CAMMARATA
6. Assessing what matters within content-based foreign language teaching
through Integrated Performance Assessment
FRANCIS J. TROYAN
Part 3: Critical pedagogy and the foreign language classroom
7. Language teachers in foreign territory: A call for a critical
pedagogy-infused curriculum
TIMOTHY REAGAN
8. Critical content-based instruction in the foreign language classroom:
Critical issues for implementation
RYUKO KUBOTA
Part 4: Exemplars of cognitively engaging curriculum planning for the
foreign language classroom
9. 'Le Maine Francophone': An expeditionary unit targeting the development of
higher-order thinking skills
FRANCIS J. TROYAN
10. Exploring environmental and sustainability issues in the intermediate-level
foreign language curriculum
ELIZABETH A. KAUTZ
11. A look at CBI in action: An exploratory journey into the arts and history
in the foreign language classroom
NANCY HAGSTROM
About the Contributors
Index