Content-Based Language Teaching

Content-based language teaing (CBLT) is an instructional approa in whi nonlinguistic content su as geography, history, or science is taught to students through the medium of a language that they are learning as an additional language. A major focus of CBLT is the development of literacy and academic ability with language. CBLT is a more effective and motivating way to develop su abilities than more traditional grammar-based approaes. Whereas traditional methods isolate the target language from content other than the language itself, CBLT enries classroom discourse through substantive content in a way that provides both a cognitive basis for language learning and a motivational basis for purposeful communication. Based on the