Students’ Content Responsibility in Content Based Instruction (CBI) and Active Participation

Students’ Perception toward the Integrated Content-Based Reading Instructional Material

“…Teachers who use the CBI approach use social or science study content as a means of developing second language vocabulary, grammar structure, and academic skills (Sasser, 2003) However, the focus of CBI language teaching is not on the rules of grammatical language nor on teaching vocabularies but on the topic or theme of the content presented. The simultaneous interaction of content and language teaching can provide a good learning environment for language learners (Sarı et al, 2015).…”

“…However, the focus of CBI language teaching is not on the rules of grammatical language nor on teaching vocabularies but on the topic or theme of the content presented. The simultaneous interaction of content and language teaching can provide a good learning environment for language learners (Sarı et al, 2015) According to Coyle (2007), CBI has some positive impacts on the students, such as CBI can increase students' linguistic competence, improve the students' skill in problem-solving and risk-taking, improve the skill in vocabulary learning and students' awareness in grammatical aspect. Besides that CBI can improve the students' linguistic confidence, motivate the students to be more motivated and independent (Coyle, 2007cited in Tarnopolsky, 2013 In CBI, the content presented has a very significant function and language functions as a means of conveying meaning.…”