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Focus on Content-Based Language Teaching highlights important research and evidence-based instructional practices that can overcome these challenges. Extracts from classroom data provide real-life examples of teachers and students interacting with each other in different approaches to content-based language teaching, showing how theory relates to practice. The book includes: Spotlight Studies, highlighting important research on learning and teaching; Classroom Snapshots, featuring descriptions of teachers and students engaged in different approaches to learning and teaching; Activities which encourage comparison and reflection, helping you to relate research and theory on content-based language teaching to your own teaching context. This book is part of the Oxford Key Concepts for the Language Classroom series, focusing on key topics for teaching English as a second or foreign language. These research-led instructional guides link the theories of second language acquisition and pedagogy with classroom practice, helping you to reflect on what needs to happen in the language classroom.