The Content-Based Classroom: Persepctives on Integrating Language and Content, edited by Marguerite Ann Snow and Donna M. Briton, gives teachers a solid understanding of how to apply the tenets of a content-based approach to language teaching with learners of different ages and proficiency levels. It offers insight into teacher preparation, classroom strategies, alternative models, research and assessment, and the relationship between content-based instruction and other instructional approaches. The Content-Based Classroom offers: selections written by a cross-section of authors who have expertise in a wide range of settings and with a variety of student populations discussion questions and activities that give students an opportunity to apply concepts to actual or hypothetical situations

Table of Contents:
Part I          Multiple Perspectives on Content-Based Instruction   Focus on Theoretical Underpinnings   Chapter 1        Content-Based Instruction: Research Foundations                         William Grabe and Fredricka L. Stoller   Focus on K-12 Instruction             Chapter 2        Integrating Content-ESL: A Report from the Front                        Ken Sheppard   Chapter 3        Sheltered English: Modifying Content Delivery for Second Language                         Learners                         Nina Glaudini Rosen and Linda Sasser   Chapter 4        Moving from Comprehensible Input to “Learning to Learn” in Content-                         Based Instruction                         Kate Kinsella   Chapter 5        Teaching Content Knowledge and ESL in Multicultural Classrooms                         Gloria M. Tang   Focus on Post-Secondary Instruction   Chapter 6        A Six-T’s Approach to Content-Based Insturction                         Fredricka Stoller and William Grabe   Chapter 7        The Challenge of Language and History Terminology from the Student                         Optic                         Anthony Bernier   Chapter 8        Pedagogical Responses from Content Faculty: Teaching Content and                             Language in History                         Carole Srole   Chapter 9        Content-Based Instruction in an EFL Setting: Issues and Strategies                         Tim Murphy   Focus on Syllabus, Materials, and Course Design   Chapter 10      Syllabus Design in Content-Based Instruction                         David E. Eskey   Chapter 11      Thematic Units: Creating an Environment for Learning                         Marge C. Gianelli   Chapter 12      Adapting the Adjunct Model: A Case Study                         Martha Iancu   Focus on Teacher Preparation   Chapter 13      Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes in Teacher Preparation for Content-                         Based Instruction                         Pat Wilcox Peterson   Chapter 14      Collaborative Approaches in Preparing Teachers for Content-Based and                         Language-Enhanced Settings                         Dorit Kaufman   Chapter 15      Creating Content-Based Language Tests: Guidelines for Teachers                         Jean Turner   Chapter 16      Issues in Assessment for Content-Based Instruction                         Sara Cushing Weigle and Linda Jensen   Focus on Research   Chapter 17      Reading and ’Riting and … Social Studies: Research on Integrated                         Language and Content in Secondary Classrooms                         Deborah J. Short   Chapter 18      How Relevant is Relevance?                         James R. Valentine, Jr., and Lyn Margaret Repath-Martos   Chapter 19      Enhancing Student Performance through Discipline-Based                         Summarization-Strategy Instruction                         Lía D. Kamhi-Stein   Chapter 20      Linguistic Form, Pragmatic Function: Relevant Research from Content-                         Based Instruction                         Jane Zuengler and Donna M. Brinton   Focus on Alternative Models   Chapter 21      The English Language Fellows Program: Using Peer Tutors to Integrate                         Language and Content                         Richard Blakely   Chapter 22      Teaching Academic Literacy Skills: Discipline Faculty Take                                           Responsibility                         Marguerite Ann Snow   Questions for Follow-Up Thought and Application     Part II         Practical Issues at a Glance   Chapter 23      Collaborating with Content-Area Teachers: What We Need to Share                         Annela Teemant, Elizabeth Bernhardt, andMarisol Rodríquez-Muñoz   Chapter 24      Content-Based Instruction: Is It Possible in High School?                         Eva Wegrzecka-Kowalewski   Chapter 26      Smiling through the Turbulence: The Flight Attendant Syndrome and                         Writing Instructor Status in the Adjunct Model                         Lynn Goldstein, Cherry Campbell, andMartha Clark   Cummings   Chapter 27      The Challenges of Administering Content-Based Programs                         Donna M. Brinton   Questions for Follow-Up Thought and Application     Part III        Connections Between Content-Based Instruction and Other                    Teaching Approaches   Chapter 28      Whole Language Teaching and Content-Based Instruction: Are They                         Compatible?                         David Freeman and Yvonne Freeman   Chapter 29      The Role of Content-Based Instruction in Workplace Literacy                         Rosemary Henze and Anne Katz   Chapter 30      VESL and Content-Based Instruction: What Do They Have in Common?                         Kathleen Wong   Chapter 31      English for Specific Purposes and Content-Based Instruction: What Is the                         Relationship?                         Ann M. Johns   Chapter 32      The Role of Content in Task-Based EAP Instruction                         Joan G. Carson, Josephine A. Taylor, and Laureen Fredella   Chapter 33      Culture as Content                         Sharon Hilles and Dennis Lynch   Chapter 34      Literature: A Quintessential Content                         Christine Holten   Questions for Follow-Up Thought and Application   References   Index