ISBN-10: 047208917X | ISBN-13: 978-0472089178 | Publication Date: November 19, 2003 | Edition: Michigan Classics Ed
In the Michigan Classics Edition of Content-Based Second Language Instruction, the authors provide updates on the field of CBI in second language acquisition since 1989. While the core of the book remains the same, new features discuss important CBI-related research and modifications to the pedagogy in the past many years. Content-Based Second Language Instruction, Michigan Classics Edition, now includes: a new preface a glossary of key terms an updated bibliography an epilogue highlighting the major developments in the field since 1989.
Donna M. Brinton retired in November 2006 from her position in the Department of Applied Linguistics & TESL at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to devote more time to her work in international teacher development. She is currently Senior Lecturer in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, where she designs and teaching online classes in the MAT-TESOL Program. During her 27 years of service at UCLA, she served in the capacities of Academic Coordinator of the UCLA ESL Service Courses, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, and Associate Director of UCLA's Center for World Languages. She is the co-author and co-editor of several professional texts including Content-Based Second Language Instruction, The Content-Based Classroom, Teaching Pronunciation, New Ways in Content-Based Instruction, New Ways in ESP, Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging, and The Linguistic Structure of Modern English. She has also co-authored several English language textbooks, on-line content-based lessons for EFL learners (http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/journal), and numerous articles in refereed journals and edited texts. For twelve years she also co-edited The CATESOL Journal. She has conducted short-term international teacher training and program evaluation in Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand, China, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Israel, Senegal, Mali, South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, India, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, the Dominican Republic, and Curacao. With her co-editors Marianne Celce-Murcia and Marguerite Ann Snow, she is currently working on the fourth edition of Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language. See http://rossier.usc.edu/faculty/donna_m_brinton.html for more information.
