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Content-Based Instruction

Content-Based Instruction. Presentation by Jeremy D. Slagoski, Senior English Language Fellow. Definition.

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Content-Based Instruction

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  1. Content-Based Instruction Presentation by Jeremy D. Slagoski, Senior English Language Fellow

  2. Definition • It is the teaching of content or information in the language being learned with little or no direct or explicit effort to teach the language itself separately from the content being taught. (Krahnke, 1987)

  3. Theory on Language • Language is text and discourse-based. • Language use draws on integrated skills. • Language is purposeful.

  4. Theory on Learning • People learn a second language most successfully when the information they are acquiring is perceived as interesting, useful, and leading to a desired goal. • Some content areas are more useful as a basis for language learning than others. • Students learn best when instruction addresses students’ needs. • Teaching builds on the previous experience of the learners.

  5. Principles for CBI • Base instructional decisions on content rather than language criteria. • Integrate skills. • Involve students actively in all phases of the learning process.

  6. More Principles • Choose content for its relevance to students’ lives, interests, and/or goals. • Select authentic texts and tasks. • Draw overt attention to language features.

  7. Pedagogical Elements in a CBI Classroom • Cooperative learning activities • Graphic organizers • Process writing • Critical thinking tasks • Values clarification

  8. Similar approaches to Content-Based Instruction • Theme-based instruction • Topic-based instruction • Task-based instruction • Project-based instruction

  9. Sources • Nunan, D. (ed). (2003). Practical English language teaching. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. • Richards, JC & Rodgers, TS. (2001). Approaches and methods in language teaching, second ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  10. My 2 Examples • Social Change • Roswell & the Greys

  11. Social Change • Fill in the Chart • How has life in Elista, Kalmykia or Russia changed in the last 10 years?

  12. What is social change? • Any change in social relations that causes a change in a society or transformation of its social structure. • Defined from www.anthro.wayne.edu/ant2100/GlossaryCultAnt.htm

  13. Not Just Russia • During the past decade, many other countries have gone through significant social changes. • Brainstorm other nations that have had a lot of social change since 1997.

  14. Reading • In what ways does Michel feel life is better now than in the past? • According to Michel, in what ways was life worse in the past? • What does Michel think about the future?

  15. Reading • According to Jai Min, what causes the problems in society today? • What examples does Jai Min give of our loss of traditions and values?

  16. Perceptions on Solutions • Every culture goes through some degree of social change. • There are mainly two ways to perceive social change. • What are these two perceptions?

  17. Optimism & Pessimism

  18. Acting Upon Social Change • Rank the following terms on a scale from non-action to strong action. • Let’s define these terms together.

  19. Not resisting change Acceptance

  20. Adaptation • Changing oneself

  21. Advocacy • Organized activism related to a particular set of issues • Educating people about social change

  22. Community organizing • A process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. Much community organizing is in the pursuit of a common agenda. Many groups seek populist goals and the ideal of participatory democracy. Community organizers create social movements by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people involved.

  23. Direct action • Strikes • Boycotts • Sit-ins • Sabotage

  24. Political activism • Joining a political party • Writing letters to newspapers or politicians • Political campaigning • Political rallies and street marches

  25. Protesting

  26. Revolution

  27. Spiritual activism • Dealing with social change through one’s spiritual or religious beliefs • Prayer or meditation • Faith in God (or gods) • Hope for humanity • Going to a church or temple

  28. Theater for Development Live performance, or theater used as a development tool. TfD encompasses the following in-person activities, with people or "puppets", before an audience: • a spoken-word drama or comedy • a music, singing and/or dance production • a production with movement but no sound (mime) • participatory or improvisational techniques using any or all of these

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