Content-based teaching: a methodological approach

The integration of language and content in the foreign language (FL) classroom represents an approach far removed from traditional methodology. This concept would considerably lighten the content of some areas of the curriculum and would require a thoroughly prepared FL staff, and interdisciplinarity in certain areas. In this article I intend to offer some guidelines for the new curricular design occasioned by the reform of Spanish education. They are aimed at various levels, and derive from actual teaching practice