/Content-Based Instrucution in Foreign Language Education: Models and Methods/ offers concrete and practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction--using subject matter rather than grammar to teach languages--through eleven case studies of cutting-edge models in a broad variety of languages, academic settings, and levels of proficiency. The highly innovative models illustrate content-based instruction programs for both commonly and less-commonly taught languages--Arabic, Croatian, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish--and for proficiency levels ranging from beginner to fluent speaker. They include single-teacher and multiteacher contexts and such settings as typical language department classrooms, specialty schools, intensive language programs, and university programs in foreign languages across the curriculum.
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/Content-Based Instrucution in Foreign Language Education: Models and Methods/ offers concrete and practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction--using subject matter rather than grammar to teach languages--through eleven case studies of cutting-edge models in a broad variety of languages, academic settings, and levels of proficiency. The highly innovative models illustrate content-based instruction programs for both commonly and less-commonly taught languages--Arabic, Croatian, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Russian, Serbian, and Spanish--and for proficiency levels ranging from beginner to fluent speaker. They include single-teacher and multiteacher contexts and such settings as typical language department classrooms, specialty schools, intensive language programs, and university programs in foreign languages across the curriculum.