Content based instruction
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CBI, or content-based instruction, teaches content or information in the target language without explicitly focusing on language skills. While it helps develop valuable study skills, some students may feel confused or that their language skills are not improving because of the lack of explicit language focus. Teachers can address this by including follow-up exercises that draw attention to linguistic features and consolidate vocabulary and grammar.
Content based instruction
- 2. The teaching of content or information in the language being learned with little or not direct or explicit effort to teach the language itself separately from the content being taught.
- 4. CBI is very popular among EAP Taking information from (English for Academic Purposes) different sources, re-evaluating teachers as it helps students to and restructuring that develop valuable study skills information can help students to such as note taking, summarizing develop very valuable thinking and extracting key information skills that can then be from texts. transferred to other subjects.
- 5. Because CBI is not explicitly Deal with this by including some focused on language learning, form of language focused some students may feel confused follow-up exercises to help draw or may even feel that they are attention to linguistic features not improving their language within the materials and skills. consolidate any difficult vocabulary or grammar points.
- 6. Particularly in monolingual Try sharing your rationale with classes, the overuse of the students and explain the benefits students' native language during of using the target language parts of the lesson can be a rather than their mother tongue. problem. Because the lesson isn't explicitly focused on language practice students find it much easier and quicker to use their mother tongue.
- 7. It can be hard to find A possible way around this at information sources and texts lower levels is either to use texts that lower levels can understand. in the students' native language Also the sharing of information in and then get them to use the the target language may cause target language for the sharing great difficulties. of information and end product, or to have texts in the target language, but allow the students to present the end product in their native language.
- 8. Avoid this by designing tasks Some students may copy directly that demand students evaluate from the source texts they use to the information in some way, to get their information. draw conclusions or actually to put it to some practical use. Having information sources that have conflicting information can also be helpful as students have to decide which information they agree with or most believe.