内容教学法总结summaryofcontent-basedinstructioni.introductionofcontent-basedinstructioncontent-basedinstructionreferstoanapproachtosecondlanguageteachinginwhichteachingisorganizedaroundthecontentorinformationthatstudentswillacquire,ratherthanaroundalinguisticorothertypeofsyllabus.itisbasedonthefollowingtwocentralprinciples:a.peoplelearnasecondlanguagemoresuccessfullywhentheyusethelanguageasameansofacquiringinformation,ratherthanasanendinitself.b.content-basedinstructionbetterreflectslearners’needsforlearningasecondlanguage.ii.characteristicsofcbi1)learnersareexposedtolanguagewhilelearningaboutothercontentareas.2)contentareasarerelevanttolearners'academicand/orprofessionalneeds.3)langueiscontextualizedthroughtheserelevantcontentarea,andthus,isalsorelevanttolearners’needs.4)afocusisplacedondevelopingacademicand/orprofessionallanguageproficiency.5)authenticmaterialsareusedtopresentcontentmatter.6)theuseofauthenticmaterialslendsitselftotheintegrationofskills,toincreasedmotivation,andtoincreasedcognitiveandlinguisticcomplexity.iii.theadvantagesofcbi1)cbimakesstudentsfeelthatlearningalanguageisinterestingandmotivation.2)cbialsohelpsstudentsdevelopamuchwiderknowledgeoftheworld.3)cbihelpsstudentstodevelopvaluablestudyskillssuchasnotetaking,summarizingandextractingkeyinformationfromtexts,whichisquiteusefulfortheirfuturestudy.4)cbiemphasizesthecommunicativefunctionoflanguage.第1页共2页5)theinclusionofagroupworkelementwithintheframeworkgivenabovecanalsohelpstudentstodeveloptheircollaborativeskillsandteamworkspirits,whichcanhavegreatsocialvalue.iv.thedisadvantagesofcbi1)forteachers,becausetheyhavenoexperienceaboutcbi,theyarenotsurewhethertheycanapplyitsuccessfully.mostmodelsofcbineedthecollaborationbetweenthelanguageteacherandthesubjectmatterteachers.itisdifficultforthemtocooperatewitheachotherandgetabalancebetweencontentandlanguage.languageproficiencyofthesubjectmatterteacherandthelanguageteacheralsohinderstheminapplyingcbi.howtoassesssubjectmatterandlanguageskillswithintheeducationalsystemisalsoaproblem.2)forstudents,somestudentsmayfeelconfusedormayevenfeelthattheyaren’timprovingtheirlanguageskills,ascbiisn'texplicitlyfocusedonlanguagelearning.thesharingofinformationinthetargetlanguagemayalsocausegreatdifficulties.somestudentswithinadequatebackgroundknowledgeandweakvocabularymaygetdiscouragedincbiclass.3)cbiistooteacher-driven.eslteachersadjustteachingmaterialstomakethemaccessibletotheirstudentsratherthanteachingtheirstudentstheskillsoflearningontheirown.itdoesnotcreateindependentlearners.第2页共2页