Content-based foreign language teaching : curriculum and pedagogy for developing advanced thinking and literacy skills / edited by Laurent Cammarata.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cammarata, Laurent, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Language and languages.

Language teachers--Training of.

Language teachers.

Teacher participation in curriculum planning.

Language arts--Correlation with content subjects.

Language arts.

Critical thinking--Study and teaching.

Critical thinking.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Language and languages--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Physical Description:

xiv, 276 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; London : Routledge : Imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Content-Based Instruction and Curricular Reforms: Issues and Goals / Laurent Cammarata Cammarata, Laurent, Diane J. Tedick Tedick, Diane J., Terry A. Osborn Osborn, Terry A. 1

Part 1 Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence 23

2 Sociocultural Theory and Content-Based Foreign Language Instruction: Theoretical Insights on the Challenge of Integration / Richard Donato Donato, Richard 25

3 Scaffolding Advanced Literacy in the Foreign Language Classroom: Implementing a Genre-Driven Content-Based Approach / Marianna V. Ryshina-Pankova Ryshina-Pankova, Marianna V. 51

4 Integrating CBI into High School Foreign Language Classrooms / Joy Gumming Gumming, Joy, Roy Lyster Lyster, Roy 77

Part 2 Curriculum Development for the Thinking-Oriented Foreign Language Classroom 99

5 Tapping the National Standards for Thought-Provoking CBI in K-16 Foreign Language Programs / Jason Martel Martel, Jason 101

6 Foreign Language Education and the Development of Inquiry-Driven Language Programs: Key Challenges and Curricular Planning Strategies / Laurent Cammarata Cammarata, Laurent 123

7 Assessing What Matters within Content-Based Foreign Language Teaching through Integrated Performance Assessment / Francis J. Troyan Troyan, Francis J. 147

Part 3 Critical Pedagogy and the Foreign Language Classroom 171

8 Language Teachers in Foreign Territory: A Call for a Critical Pedagogy-Infused Curriculum / Timothy Reagan Reagan, Timothy 173

9 Critical Content-Based Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom: Critical Issues for Implementation / Ryuko Kubota Kubota, Ryuko 192

Part 4 Exemplars of Cognitively Engaging Curriculum Planning for the Foreign Language Classroom 213

10 Le Maine Francophone: An Expeditionary Unit Targeting the Development of Higher-Order Thinking Skills / Francis J. Troyan Troyan, Francis J. 215

11 Exploring Environmental and Sustainability Issues in the Intermediate-Level Foreign Language Curriculum / Elizabeth A. Kautz Kautz, Elizabeth A. 234

12 A Look at CBI in Action: An Exploratory Journey into the Arts and History in the Foreign Language Classroom / Nancy Hagstrom Hagstrom, Nancy 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415880152

0415880157

9780415880169

0415880165

9780203850497

0203850491

OCLC:

707965846