Dr. Marjorie Hall Haley is tenured Professor of Education and Director of Foreign Language Teacher Licensure in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA.  Dr. Haley holds a PhD in Foreign Language Education and English as a Second Language from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has also earned a Master’s degree in education and advanced studies certificates from Towson University and Johns Hopkins University, respectively. In her 25th year at George Mason University, she teaches Foreign Language methods and ESL methods courses as well as doctoral courses in Brain-compatible Teaching and Learning, Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition Research. Dr. Haley’s research and publication record is wide. Her most recent book is, Brain-compatible Differentiated Instruction for English Language Learners (2010), published by Pearson. In addition, she is a featured scholar in the WGBH and Annenberg/CPB video, “Valuing Diverse Learners” available at www.learner.org   Theresa Y. Austin is Professor of Education in the School of Education, in the Language, Literacy and Culture Concentration's Bilingual, ESL and Multicultural Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• Section I: Language, Language Learning, and Language Acquisition Chapter 1: How Languages Are Learned and Acquired through Content Section II: Interactive Instructional Practice in Content-Based Settings Chapter 2: Planning for Today's Millennial Learners and a Standards-Based Classroom Chapter 3: A Critique of Methods and Approaches in Language Teaching Chapter 4: Evaluating and Creating Interactive and Content-Based Assessment Chapter 5: Foregroundign Oral Communication Chapter 6: Literacy and the English Language Learner Chapter 7: Foregrounding Written Communication in Content-Based Second-Language Teaching and Learning Chapter 8: Interactive Approaches for Working with Diverse Learners Chapter 9: Integrating Technology in an Interactive, Content-Based Classroom

This is one of the most comprehensive and inclusive texts I have found for teaching university students about content areas in ESL.