Teacher Development for Content-Based Language Education: International Perspectives

This book brings together findings on content-based teacher education from international contexts to help prepare teachers for this challenging setting. It offers a solid grounding in theories and applications of content-based approaches, promoting further teacher-researcher collaboration and professional development.

Susan Ballinger is Associate Professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Canada. Her research interests include language awareness, peer interaction and cross-linguistic pedagogy and she is General Editor of the Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education.

Ruth Fielding is Associate Professor in Languages and TESOL Teacher Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research examines multilingual identity, language teacher identity, bilingual education in Australia and intercultural approaches to language education.

Diane J. Tedick is Professor Emeritus of Second Language Education at the University of Minnesota, USA. Her research interests include student language development in immersion education and immersion/dual language teacher education and professional development.