4: Subjects Matter

Resources

Check out these additional resources to explore the topic further.

American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. National Standards in Foreign Language Education Collaborative Project. Yonkers, NY: American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 1999. (To purchase the Standards document, go to www.actfl.org or call 1-800-627-0629.)

Brinton, D., and P. Master, eds. New Ways in Content-Based Instruction. Alexandria, VA: TESOL, 1997.

Doughty, C., and J. Williams, eds. Focus on Form in Classroom Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Echevarria, J., M. Vogt, and D. J. Short. Making Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners: The SIOP Model. Des Moines: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.

Lightbown, P. M. "SLA Research in the Classroom/SLA Research for the Classroom." Language Learning Journal 27 (2003): 4-14.

Lightbown, P. M., and N. Spada. How Languages Are Learned. Rev. ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Met, Myriam. "Making Connections." In Foreign Language Standards: Linking Research, Theories, and Practice, edited by J. K. Phillips and R. M. Terry, 137-164. Chicago: National Textbook Company (in conjunction with ACTFL), 1999. (This text is available in the Before You Watch section.)

Met, Myriam. "Teaching Content Through a Second Language." In Educating Second Language Children: The Whole Child, the Whole Curriculum, the Whole Community, edited by F. Genesee. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Nicholas, H., P. M. Lightbown, and N. Spada. "Recasts as Feedback to Language Learners." Language Learning 51 (2001): 719-758.

Snow, M. A. "Content-Based and Immersion Models for Second and Foreign Language Teaching." In Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, edited by M. Celce-Murcia, 303-318. 3d ed. Boston: Heinle & Heinle, 2001.

Snow, M. A., and D. Brinton. The Content-Based Classroom. New York: Longman, 1997.

Swain, M. "French Immersion and Its Offshoots: Getting Two for One." In Foreign Language Acquisition: Research and the Classroom, edited by B. Freed. Lexington, MA: Heath, 1991.

VanPatten, B. From Input to Output: A Teacher's Guide to Second Language Acquisition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003.



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