Reading to Learn in a Foreign Language An Integrated Approach to Foreign Language Instruction and Assessment | Education

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This book describes a theory-guided approach to Foreign Language (FL) course development implementation instruction and assessment. It documents the development and implementation of a theory-guided approach designed to exploit cross-linguistically sharable competencies as resources for promoting FL learning. The volume delineates the processes of (a) identifying cross-linguistically sharable competencies (b) exploring ways of exploiting sharable competencies as resources in promoting language skills through their purposeful use for content learning (c) implementing the instructional approach in multiple EFL classrooms and (d) evaluating the approach by comparing learning outcomes across cl…