For content-based instruction (CBI) to work to its maximum potential, a concerted planning effort must be made to address language objectives, combined with effective instructional strategies that target and assess student performance in relation to those objectives. In this article, after considering various models of content-language…

Content analysis of data regarding Canadian preservice English-as-a-Second-Language teachers revealed that they widely varied in their degree of knowledge of and ability to effectively make curriculum decisions, suggesting the effectiveness of augmenting current input-output models with developmental learning models. (Author/CB)