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3. Content-Based Instruction
According to Richard 2006 content means the information that learners learn through language. Meanwhile Krahnke in Richard 2006 defines content-
based instruction as “the teaching of content or information in the language being learned with
little or no direct or explicit effort to teaching the language itself separately from the content being taught.”
This method describes that using content as the motivating force of
classroom activities will assist the students to comprehend the materials. It can relate all the different elements of communicative competence, including
grammatical competence to content. Content-based instruction is based on the following ideas:
“People learn a language more successfully when they use the language as a means of acquiring information, rather than as an end in it. CBI better reflects
learners‟ needs for learning a second language. Content provides a coherent framework that can be used to link and develop all of the language skills.”
Richard also states that content-based instruction could become a
framework for a unit of work and f
ramework for commercial EFLESL materials. To become framework for units or materials, the instruction should initially
identify the language that will be used for the students. For example, in a hotel receptionist communication course a teacher may prepare a unit of work on theme
of telephoning and offering. The teacher in collaboration with the hotel receptionist should identify common topic in hotel receptionist communication as
the basis of the materials framework. Then, the teacher develops the activities based on the topic decided before.
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From the explanation above, it can be shown that content based instruction is suitable for the learners in vocational high school which are the participants of
this research. It is due to what students learn in the instruction is language that is used in a particular context depends on their major. In return, the instruction
should also be appropriate for the students major so that the students‟ communicative competence can be developed. Moreover, in communicative
language teaching there is still a way to develop students‟ communicative competence in an instruction through engaging learners in interactive task which
becomes the basis of task-based instruction or task-based language teaching.
4. Task-Based Language Teaching a. Definition of Tasks
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