Learning and Teaching Languages Through Content: A counterbalanced Approach (Language Learning & Language Teachning)

"This book presents an updated perspective on integrating language and content in ways that engage second language learners with language across the curriculum. A range of instructional practices observed in immersion and content-based classrooms is highlighted to set the stage for justifying a counterbalanced approach that integrates both content-based and form-focused instructional options as complementary ways of intervening to develop a learner's interlanguage system. A counterbalanced approach is outlined as an array of opportunities for learners to process language through content by means of comprehension, awareness, and production mechanisms, and to negotiate language through content by means of interactional strategies involving teacher scaffolding and feedback."--BOOK JACKET.Roy Lyster is the author of 'Learning and Teaching Languages Through Content: A counterbalanced Approach (Language Learning & Language Teachning)', published 2007 under ISBN 9789027219749 and ISBN 9027219745.