Teacher Development for Content-Based Language Education

<p><strong>Provides a much-needed exploration of professional development for teachers working with content and language.</strong></p> <p>This book fills a large gap in our understanding of how to prepare teachers for the challenging but increasingly popular task of integrating content and language instruction. It brings together findings on content-based teacher education from Africa Asia Australia Europe and North America in order to inform researchers and teacher educators and enable them to play a critical role in the continued success of such programs.</p> <p>It offers a solid grounding in theories and applications of content-based approaches with empirical studies investigating teacher identity materials design use of cognitive discourse functions and best practices for teacher education. Responding to the growing popularity of content-based programs and the shortage of qualified teachers for these contexts this book promotes teacher-researcher collaboration and provides support for trainee teachers in-service teachers and course leaders.</p>