Activities
A Check your understanding of Content-based Instruction.
1 In your own words describe the difference between the approach to teaching
communication taken in the previous chapter and this one.
2 Why do you think that CBI has been called a method with many faces (Snow
1991)?
3 What type(s) of preparation might be useful for a teacher who will teach content
along with language?
B Apply what you have understood about Content-based Instruction.
1 Even if you do not teach in a program that regularly uses CBI, try incorporating
the teaching of content into your language class. Teach a poem or adopt a theme
of interest to your students, for instance. See what you learn from that experience.
2 How are process writing and journal keeping consistent with the Whole Language
Approach? Can you think of any other writing techniques which are?
