CONTENT BASED INSTRUCTION

CONTENT BASED INSTRUCTION

CBI is the topic or subject matter teacher as it helps students to develop valuable study skills such as note taking. Summarizing and extracting key information.

ApproachCBI is grounded on the following two central principles:1. Peoples learn second language more

successfully when they use the language as a means of acquiring information.

2. CBI better reflects learners needs for learning a second language.

This principles reflects the fact that many content based programs serve to access the content learning and teaching.

♠ Objective → In CBI, language learning is typically considered incidental to the learning of content.

For example: integrating reading and writing skills.

♠ Learner roles → One goal of CBI is for learners to become autonomous so that they come to understand their own learning process.

♠ The role of teachers → Teachers must be knowledgeable in the subject matter and able to elicit that knowledge from their students.

♠ The roles of materials → The materials that facilitate language learning with the subject matter of the content course.

For example: newspaper and radio.

DESIGN

BENEFITS OF CBI* Learning language becomes automatic* CBI supports contextualized learning* Information is delivered through real life context for the students to grasp well.

conclusion

In a content based approach, the activities of the language class are specific to the subject being taught, and to stimulate students to think and learn through the target language. For example, it employs authentic reading materials which require students not only to understand information but to interpret and evaluate it as well.