Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education

This book presents research initiatives by tutors involved in a content-based instruction context as part of the University Town writing programme, National University of Singapore, which is an interdisciplinary programme designed to teach first- and second-year undergraduate students how to conduct academic research and write evidence-based research papers. It presents research the tutors conductedwithin thedual fields ofteachingdiscipline-specific content anddeveloping students' academic literacy.The book focuses mainly on pedagogy and material development in this context. It shares the tutors' scholarship of teaching and learning experiencesfrom this programme through presenting action research from the classroom, demonstrating constructive cycles ofpraxis, which are then evaluated using student texts and student feedback. The book draws on academic research literature related to content-based instruction, as well as topics such asfacilitating collaborative peer reviews of assignments, and critical thinking pedagogy. It covers how multi-disciplinary or multi-lingual classrooms of this genre can motivate studentsto conduct and write up researchand provides an overview of how both content and academic literacy is combined at ahigh level of engagement from an Asian context.