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Aída Walqui, Editor; George C. Bunch, Editor; Peggy Mueller, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2025
Expanded and revised to include four entirely new chapters, this thoroughly updated edition presents a model for how educators can design high-quality, challenging, and supportive learning opportunities for multilingual learners. Starting with the premise that conceptual, analytic, and language practices develop simultaneously as students engage…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Quality, Spanish, Native Language
Scott Kissau; Kristin Davin; Kristen Moore – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Cherokee is an endangered Indigenous language. Revitalization efforts often include offering Cherokee language instruction, but these efforts have been hampered by a lack of qualified teachers. An initial licensure program was launched in fall 2019 aimed at supporting Cherokee language renewal via the preparation of teachers. While a step forward,…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Language Maintenance, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Spenader, Allison J.; Wesely, Pamela M.; Glynn, Cassandra – Language Teaching Research, 2020
Content-based instruction (CBI) is a pedagogical approach used in the second/other language classroom that commits to addressing both language- and content-learning objectives. Scholars have found that, particularly in the planning stages, teachers struggle with achieving that balance (Donato, 2016; Lyster, 2007). This study examines world…
Descriptors: Course Content, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Ludewig, Julia – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2017
This article discusses the potential and challenges of teaching a second-semester German class with Simon Schwartz's graphic novel "drüben!" (2009) alongside a traditional textbook. While the class explored linguistic, literary, and cultural-historical aspects of "drüben!," a GDR-themed family memoir, the focus here is on those…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, German, Teaching Methods
Glynn, Cassandra; Wesely, Pamela; Wassell, Beth – American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 2018
The second edition of "Words and Actions" features an expanded framework, a variety of new unit, lesson, and activity examples from different languages and levels, and additional content on how social justice education fits within the context of contemporary approaches to language instruction. The revised text provides concrete examples…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Guidelines
Dimas, Héctor Manuel Serna – English Language Teaching, 2019
This study intends the validation of an instructional design on intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the beginning levels of German, French, Italian, Portuguese, and English in the Modern Languages program at EAN University in Colombia. The design constituents: language integration, oral production, fieldwork activities, and a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Communicative Competence (Languages), Cultural Awareness, Introductory Courses
Khatri, Raj – BC TEAL Journal, 2016
Canada welcomes around 24,000 refugees annually (Citizenship and Immigration Canada 2015; 2016). Many adult learners with refugee experiences join English as an Additional Language (EAL) classes every year, whether these classes be federally or provincially funded. These adult learners with refugee experiences bring to EAL classes varied…
Descriptors: Refugees, Adult Learning, English for Academic Purposes, Foreign Countries
Turkan, Sultan; Celik, Servet – Online Submission, 2007
The need to integrate culture and its teaching into foreign language education is not a new debate, and has long been highlighted in countless studies. Yet, it seems to be common practice that foreign language textbooks and classrooms frequently overlook the conclusions drawn in such studies and neglect the essential information about the target…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
Hardwick, Susan W.; Davis, Robert L. – Journal of Geography, 2009
The use of content-based language instruction (CBI) offers an innovative and effective method for teaching core geographic concepts and skills while students study a second language. This article focuses on a collaborative initiative developed and tested by university and high school level geography and second-language educators. The goal of the…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geography, Geographic Concepts, Second Language Instruction

Harmer, Jeremy – ELT Journal, 1984
Describes a unit planning game for teachers that encourages them to think about and discuss reasons for lesson planning decisions. (EKN)
Descriptors: Educational Games, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Learning Activities
Appelson, Marilyn; And Others – 1982
This handbook contains a collection of creative ideas and activities for teaching English as a second language (ESL), organized by levels and topics. The handbook helps to foster an understanding of the tutor's role in creating a learning environment and to develop an awareness of the variety of instructional approaches. The format of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, English (Second Language), Guidelines, Learning Activities

McCarthy, Katherine – 2002
This unit provides visual activities to engage students in learning the imperfect tense in Spanish. Upon completion of the unit, students will be able to do the following: identify imperfect tense conjugation in children's books; conjugate verbs in the imperfect tense; list uses of the imperfect tense; discriminate between the imperfect tense and…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Valbuena, Felix Mario; And Others – 1978
This is a curriculum guide to the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the Detroit, Michigan public schools. Contained in the guide are sections on pronunciation, grammar, handwriting, and the special learning problems of specific language groups. Twelve teaching units that stress skill development in listening, speaking, reading, and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Secondary Education

Maclennan, Susan – ELT Journal, 1987
Classroom management considerations should be part of the criteria for planning the content and format of lessons. Teachers must consider not only how a specific activity will influnce language learning but also how that activity will influence general behavior. (CB)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
Jacobs, G. M. – Online Submission, 1995
This chapter discusses how to develop materials which integrate environmental education in language instruction, particularly second language instruction. The discussion includes methodology, and a sample unit is provided. [This paper was published in: A. C. Hidalgo, D. Hall, & G. M. Jacobs (Eds.), "Getting started: Materials writers on…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Material Development, Integrated Curriculum, Integrated Activities
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