Content with content: A content-based instruction approach to curriculum design and course assessment in academic English for business
This article reports on the successful implementation of a content-based instruction (CBI) approach to a 6-month pre-sessional academic English for business and management course at a UK university. While recognising that CBI is not a ‘cure-all’ and indeed that the approach brings with it particula...
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The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
2015-12-01
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This article reports on the successful implementation of a content-based instruction (CBI) approach to a 6-month pre-sessional academic English for business and management course at a UK university. While recognising that CBI is not a ‘cure-all’ and indeed that the approach brings with it particular issues, such as instructor competence in the content, the article argues CBI offers both significant and wide-ranging benefits as a language teaching approach and as such should be given greater prominence in the language teaching industry.
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| spelling | doaj-art-c52b55123aa643e288d3569e0ba2aae42025-01-21T05:09:18ZengThe John Paul II Catholic University of LublinLingBaW2450-51882015-12-011110.31743/lingbaw.5628Content with content: A content-based instruction approach to curriculum design and course assessment in academic English for businessDeak Kirkham0University of Leeds This article reports on the successful implementation of a content-based instruction (CBI) approach to a 6-month pre-sessional academic English for business and management course at a UK university. While recognising that CBI is not a ‘cure-all’ and indeed that the approach brings with it particular issues, such as instructor competence in the content, the article argues CBI offers both significant and wide-ranging benefits as a language teaching approach and as such should be given greater prominence in the language teaching industry. https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/LingBaW/article/view/5628language teachingcontent-based instructionacademic English |
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