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Reviewing the Principles

1. What are the goals of the teachers who use CBI?

- master language and content.

- The content: current events, their hobbies, or an academic subject.

- encourage the development

2. What is the role of the teacher? What is the role of the students?

- The T’s role -> set clear learning objectives

- The Ss’s role -> engage actively.

3. What are some characteristics of the teaching/learning process?

- understand authentic texts.

- make meaning clear

- design activities

- highlighting how language is used

4. What is the nature of student-teacher interaction? What is the nature of student-student interaction?

- The T guides student learning.

-Supporting them

- Ss work collaboratively.

5. How are the feelings of the students dealt with?

- interested and motivated.

6. How is the language viewed? How is culture viewed?

- Language is meaningful

- culture is addressed

7. What areas of language are emphasized? What language skills are emphasized?

· Vocabulary items and grammar structures.

· All four skills are integrated.

8. What is the role of the students’ native language?

· no overt role.

9. How is evaluation accomplished?


· Students -> knowledge of content and language ability.

10. How does the teacher respond to student errors?

· Teacher corrects & students self-correct.

Teacher Preparation
 Having content and language knowlegde
 Teaching skills
 Helping teacher understand rationale
 Giving teachers practice designing
 Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
 Adjunct model
 Focusing on helping students:
 Completing academic tasks
 improving note-taking abilities
 reading academic textbooks

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