Content-Based+Instruction

__**Content-Based Instruction**__ //**Content-based instruction emphasizes a connection to real life, real world skills (Curtain, 1995); in content-based classes, students have more opportunities to use the content knowledge and expertise they bring to class (they activate their prior knowledge, which leads to increased learning of language and content material) **// //**By creating content-based activities, you create a context in which there's a reason to learn the language, there's a reason to learn the grammar, there's a reason to learn the vocabulary. And you're not putting the students in the position of waiting until they know the language well enough to be able to talk about something interesting.**//
 * [|CARLA] (Content-based instructional modules, lesson plans and units, unit templates)
 * [|Principles of Content-Based Instruction] (Report by Miriam Met)
 * [|Content-Based Instruction Research]
 * [|6 T's Approach to Content-Based Education]
 * [|Subject Matters]
 * [|Content-Centered Language Learning] (ERIC Digest)
 * [|Brain-Based Learning and Though Content-Based] (Powerpoint by Teresa Kennedy)
 * [|Content-Based Language Teaching with Techology] (CARLA - The what and why of content-based Instruction, instructional modules, templates, lesson plans and units)

//**- Patsy M. Lightbown, Professor Emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal**//