11 optimal benefits from CBI, students need to be clearly in tune with its purposes
and the language codes that signal and link these expressions of purpose Richards Rodgers, 2001.
A brief yet clear illustration of the approach being discussed can be seen from the three definitions of language in CBI as elaborated above. The illustration
also involves insight into the main principles of CBI as stated by Richards Rodgers. The elaboration of CBI principles will be given in the next section.
2.1.1.2 The Principles of Content-Based Instruction
There are two main principles of Content-Based Instruction CBI according to Richards Rodgers. The principles are:
a. People learn a second language more successfully when they use the language as a means of acquiring information, rather than as an end in itself.
b. CBI better reflects learners’ needs for learning a second language. Richards Rodgers, 2001
From the two main principles of CBI stated by Richards Rodgers, it can be seen that CBI as an approach deals mainly with the content rather than the
language which is used in delivering the content during the teaching-learning activities. Richards Rodgers 2001: 204 also argued that “an ideal situation for
second language learning would be one where the subject matter of language teaching was not grammar or functions or some other language-based unit of
organization, but content, i.e., subject matter from outside the domain of language.”
12 Richards Rodgers stated that learning a second language should be done
by using the language as the means of conveying and acquiring information. It means that the second language is mastered through incidental acquisition through
the assistance of other subjects. This approach makes use of the familiarization of the target language by using it regularly. The target language in CBI which
functions as the medium of learning, then, is considered as a by-product of learning about real-world content.
2.1.1.3 The Objectives of Content-Based Instruction
As an approach of language teaching, Content-Based Instruction CBI has some objectives. The objectives are:
a. To activate and develop existing English language skills. b. To acquire learning skills and strategies that could be applied in future
language development opportunities. c. To develop general academic skills applicable to university studies in all
subject areas. d. To broaden students’ understanding of English speaking peoples.
Brinton et al., 2003 It can be seen from the objectives stated by Brinton et al. that the
implementation of CBI is more appropriate in classroom of students with sufficient knowledge or ability of the second language. The first objective proposed by
Brinton et al. stated that CBI is useful in activating and developing existing language skills, hence the students’ background knowledge of the second language
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