Content and Language Integration in K-12 Contexts: Student Outcomes, Teacher Practices, and Stakeholder Perspectives

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 45, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Tedick, Diane J ^a   Cammarata, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content and language integrated instruction (CLIL); Content based instruction (CBI); Content based language teaching (CBLT); Content related early language learning; Language immersion education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860758728     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2012.01178.x     Document Type: Article

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