Content-based instruction

Content-Based Instruction is an approach to learning a target language where teaching is organized around _______ that students need to acquire rather than on the linguistic form.

• tasks or projects 

• the information or content 

• school subjects 

• grammatical structure

Which language is the medium of instruction in Content-Based Instruction?

• Learners' mother tongue 

• Teachers' first language 

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  Second/target language

   

• Science language 

What should Content-Based Instruction teachers do?

• set clear learning objectives for content only 

• create activities to teach language only 

• scaffold the language needed for the study of the content 

   

• measure learners' grammatical competence

What language do they use in Content-Based Instruction?

• Target language

• Native language 

• Academic language 

• System language 

What is the main assumption of Content-Based Instruction?

• Learners will learn the language through tasks. 

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  Learners would value the content more than the language. 

• Learners learn best by focusing on acquiring information.

• All of the above

Which of the following is true of content-based instruction?

• Learn about engagement

• Learn life-coping and survival skills

• it immerses students in subjects related to the language

• Learn about memorization and repetition

Which journal works on literacy ability in content-based instruction?

• Language Experience Journal

• approach

  Process Writing Journal

•  Dialogue Journals

• Dictogloss Journal

Which technique do students alternately narrate stories about their personal experiences to teachers in the target language? 

• Target Language 

  Language

• Langauge Experience Approach

• Dialogue Journals

• Process Writing

Which statement is True about Content-Based Instruction?

• The content instructor teaches the material in a second or foreign language.

• The main goal is to be independent of students' roles.

• Students are evaluated for their linguistic proficiency. 

• All of the above

For Howatt, there are two versions of the Communicative Approach. Those are___

• Strong version and Weak version

• Old version and New Version

• Traditional version and Modern version

• Formal version and Informal version