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Content Based Instruction
It is an Approach
Organized around the content or subject to be taugh
Refers to a set of principles
Use of language as a means of understanding content
Prepare learners for academic studies
Prepare learners for survival in an English language
Through teaching content activates
Cognitive
Interactional Processes
Students learn content and language at the same time
Particularly use in North America programs
Detailed Rationale for CBI
Eventual uses the learner will make of L2
distinction between language and content
It views language as learned within a larger framework of communication
meaningful and cognitively demanding language in the form of authentic materials and tasks.
Comprehensible input as necessary
High value on feedback on accuracy
To input through language-enhanced instruction
Balanced focus on fluency and accuracy
Contemporary models of CBI
Theme-based model
Sheltered model
Adjunct model
Skills-based model
Theory of Language
Lexis is central in integrating language and content
Grammar is a resource for communicating content.
Language is text and discourse-based
Language use draws on integrated skills
Theory of Learning
Comprehension is a necessary condition for L2
Negotiation of meaning plays an important role in understanding content
Learning is facilitated by corrective feedback
Clarification request
Explicit correction
Recast
Elicitation
Repetition
Metalinguistic feedback
Learning of both content and language is facilitated by dialogic talk
Prior knowledge plays an important role in CBI.
Scaffolded learning plays an important part in CBI
Design
Objectives
Content is taught in L2
Content learning is priority
Language learning is secondary
Content objectives determined by course
goals or curriculum
Teachers must select language objectives
Students evaluated on content mastery
The syllabus
Theme-based CBI
Conventional Language Syllabus
Depend on whether it is primarily content driven or language driven
Types of learning and teaching activities
Activities that involve
co-operative
Task-based
Experiential
Project-based learning
Learner roles
Active interpreters of input
willing to tolerate uncertainty along the path of learning
Explore alternative
learning strategies
seek multiple interpretations of oral and written texts.
Expected to process language consciously
Teacher roles
Keep context and comprehensibility foremost in their planning and presentations
Responsible for selecting and
adapting authentic materials for use in class
Create truly learner-centered classrooms.
The role of instructional materials
Used to teach content subjects
Variety of different forms of
authentic materials
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