Content-Based Second Language Teaching and Learning: An Interactive Approach, 2nd edition

• Prepare to learn the concepts of each chapter in This Chapter Will Feature and In This Chapter You Will Examine sections.
• Understand the chapter framework in What Does the Research Say sections.
• Discuss, reflect, and assess new information in Think/Pair/Share, Reflect/Respond/Act, Discuss and Reflect, and Ask Yourself These Questions features throughout each chapter.
• Improve content comprehension through the Glossary of Terms and Additional Resources, including professional organizations, web sites, and national and international professional journals for further reference.
• Create meaningful questions to examine through investigation in an Action Research project connecting theory to practice.
• Apply chapter content with the help of a case study drawn from actual teaching scenarios.

A variety of unique pedagogical features help to maximize reader comprehension:

• What Do Teachers Have To Say features teachers offering candid views of the classroom life associated with the chapter topics.
• Field-Based Experience suggests classroom and school setting activities and opportunities for readers to practice what they have read.
• Application Activity suggests activities for student teaching that apply theory to practice.

This new edition includes a number of features that help teachers better connect to professional development standards, such as the Common Core Standards and WIDA. Important new ideas and suggestions for teaching to the diversity of students in today’s classrooms.

• Teachers are able to connect professional development standards with classroom practices in the chapter Reflect and Respond activities that focus on professional development, integrating TESOL/National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) Standards for P-12 teacher education and/or ACTFL/NCATE Standards.
• The opportunity to reflect on the Comprehension Questions for each topic is enhanced by this edition’s inclusion of the questions at the end of each chapter, rather than at the end of the book.
• Mainstream teachers get practical tips, ideas, and strategies for working with ELLs in the Mainstream Teachers Who Work With ELLs feature in each chapter.
• Teachers have access to technology resources, applications, and materials to assist with teaching and learning in the Technology Highlights that appear in each chapter.
• Assistance for actively advocating for language learners and programs is provided to help teachers and administrators with this sometimes-difficult area of responsibility.
• The ability to accommodate special needs learners is facilitated with this edition’s inclusion of useful tips, skills, ad strategies for use with a wide range of culturally, linguistically, and cognitively diverse learners.
• Teachers can easily see how to include Common Core and WIDA Standards, as well as 21^st Century Skills in lessons and activities through new discussions and examples highlighting the importance and alignment of these national standards and skills.
• A broader examination of the diversities of learners is presented in Chapter 8, which is now called “Interactive Approaches to Working With Millennial Learners.”
• Teachers get a deeper understanding of the idea of multiple literacies in Chapter 5, “Interactive Approaches to Addressing Multiple Literacies.