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Content-Based Foreign Language Teaching: Curriculum and Pedagogy for Developing Advanced Thinking and Literacy Skills book cover

1st Edition

Content-Based Foreign Language Teaching Curriculum and Pedagogy for Developing Advanced Thinking and Literacy Skills

Edited By Laurent Cammarata Copyright 2016
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

  • Sociocultural theory and content-based Foreign Language instruction: Theoretical insights on the challenge of integration

    • RICHARD DONATO

    　

  • Scaffolding advanced literacy in the foreign language classroom: Implementing a genre-driven content-based approach
    MARIANNA V. RYSHINA-PANKOVA
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  • Integrating CBI into high school foreign language classrooms

    • JOY CUMMING & ROY LYSTER

    　

    Part 2: Curriculum development for the thinking-oriented foreign language classroom

  • Tapping the ACTFL National Standards for a thoughtful approach to content-based instruction
    JASON MARTEL
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  • Foreign Language education and the development of inquiry-driven language programs: Key challenges and curricular planning strategies
    LAURENT CAMMARATA
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  • Assessing what matters within content-based foreign language teaching through Integrated Performance Assessment
    FRANCIS J. TROYAN
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    Part 3: Critical pedagogy and the foreign language classroom

  • Language teachers in foreign territory: A call for a critical pedagogy-infused curriculum

    • TIMOTHY REAGAN

    　

  • 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

  • ‘Le Maine Francophone’: An expeditionary unit targeting the development of higher-order thinking skills
    FRANCIS J. TROYAN
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  • Exploring environmental and sustainability issues in the intermediate-level foreign language curriculum
    ELIZABETH A. KAUTZ
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  • A look at CBI in action: An exploratory journey into the arts and history in the foreign language classroom
    NANCY HAGSTROM
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      About the Contributors

      　

      Index

      　

      Biography

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

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