- TASK BASED INSTRUCTION (TBI)
Task‐based instruction is characterized by activities that engage language learners in meaningful, goal‐oriented communication to solve problems, complete projects, and reach decisions.
CONTENT BASED INSTRUNCTIONS (CBI)
What is content-based instruction?
The focus of a CBI lesson is on the topic or subject matter. During the lesson students are focused on learning about something. This could be anything that interests them from a serious science subject to their favourite pop star or even a topical news story or film. They learn about this subject using the language they are trying to learn, rather than their native language, as a tool for developing knowledge and so they develop their linguistic ability in the target language. This is thought to be a more natural way of developing language ability and one that corresponds more to the way we originally learn our first language.
What does a content-based instruction lesson look like?
There are many ways to approach creating a CBI lesson. This is one possible way.
The focus of a CBI lesson is on the topic or subject matter. During the lesson students are focused on learning about something. This could be anything that interests them from a serious science subject to their favourite pop star or even a topical news story or film. They learn about this subject using the language they are trying to learn, rather than their native language, as a tool for developing knowledge and so they develop their linguistic ability in the target language. This is thought to be a more natural way of developing language ability and one that corresponds more to the way we originally learn our first language.
What does a content-based instruction lesson look like?
There are many ways to approach creating a CBI lesson. This is one possible way.
- Preparation
- Choose a subject of interest to students.
- Find three or four suitable sources that deal with different aspects of the subject. These could be websites, reference books, audio or video of lectures or even real people.
- During the lesson
- Divide the class into small groups and assign each group a small research task and a source of information to use to help them fulfil the task.
- Then once they have done their research they form new groups with students that used other information sources and share and compare their information.
- There should then be some product as the end result of this sharing of information which could take the form of a group report or presentation of some kind.
What are the advantages of content-based instruction?
- It can make learning a language more interesting and motivating. Students can use the language to fulfil a real purpose, which can make students both more independent and confident.
- Students can also develop a much wider knowledge of the world through CBI which can feed back into improving and supporting their general educational needs.
- CBI is very popular among EAP (English for Academic Purposes) teachers as it helps students to develop valuable study skills such as note taking, summarising and extracting key information from texts.
- Taking information from different sources, re-evaluating and restructuring that information can help students to develop very valuable thinking skills that can then be transferred to other subjects.
- The inclusion of a group work element within the framework given above can also help students to develop their collaborative skills, which can have
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