Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom Focus On Content Based Language Teaching 1st edition by Lightbown, Patsy (2014) Paperback

Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom

by Patsy M. Lightbown

Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching highlights important research and evidence-based instructional practices that can overcome these challenges. 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. The book Studies, highlighting important research on learning and teaching Classroom Snapshots, featuring descriptions of teachers and students engaged in different approaches to learning and teaching Activities which encourage comparison and reflection, helping you to relate research and theory on content-based language teaching to your own teaching context.This book is part of the Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom series, focusing on key topics for teaching English as a second or foreign language. These research-led instructional guides link the theories of second language acquisition and pedagogy with classroom practice, helping you to reflect on what needs to happen in the language classroom.

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First published March 1, 2014

About the author

Patsy M. Lightbown is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Concordia University in Montreal and Past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses on how instruction and feedback affect second-language acquisition in classrooms where the emphasis is on "communicative" or "content-based" language teaching. The contexts for her work have included elementary schools in Canada and, more recently, dual-language bilingual classes in the U.S. She recently contributed to a series of professional development workshops coordinated by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Boston public television station WGBH.

Her Oxford University Press publication How Languages are Learned (co-authored with Nina Spada) won first prize in the Applied Linguistics area of the English-Speaking Union's 1993 competition, and is now available in a fully-revised Third Edition.