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...

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...