Content based instruction

Content based instruction

1. Second language acquisition

2. Cognitive psychology

3. Subject matter (what is being said)

4. Comprehensive output

5. Extended practice with coherent coupled with relevant language learning activities

6. 5 models

   • Immersion education
     • Majority of their schooling through the medium of their second language
   • Content-enriched foreign language in the elementary school
     • 20-30 minute instruction, several times per week
   • Theme-based model
     • Themes provide the content from which teachers extract language learning activities
       • Theme
       • Topics
       • Texts
       • Threads
       • Transitions
   • Sheltered model
     • Separation of second/native speakers
   • Adjunct model
     • Likning between language and content instructions

7. Strategies for content-based instruction

   • Strategies for language teachers
   • Strategies for content instructors