This book offers concrete and practical ideas for implementing content-based instruction--using subject matter rather than grammar--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 beginners to fluent speakers. They include single-teacher and...