Ministry of Higher Education and science of Kazakhstan Republic

Faculty of foreign languages

Features of using content based approach

in English teaching
THE GOAL

The object of research: the

process of teaching a foreign
Define features of using
language.
content based approach in
students’ communicative
competence development at The subject of the research:
content based approach in a
secondary school.
foreign language classroom.
 THE RESEARCH OBJECTIVES:

1. To disclosure the essence of content based approach;

2. To identify the features of content based approach in building
students’ communicative competence;
3. To develop a set of activities in building high school students’
communicative competence based on content based approach;
4. To conduct experimental work and analyze its results.
Objective 1. CONTENT BASED INSTRUCTION
 Theoretical basis of CBI
WHO? WHEN? HOW?

Sticht, G. T. 1997 The focus is given on the content which may comprise of traditional
school subjects like geography, history, environmental science or some
other relevant topics which the students might be interested like
recycling, global warming
(The Theory behind Content-Based Instruction)

Richards & 2001 The approach aims to develop the students' language and academic
Rodgers skills.
(Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge: CUP.)

Stoller, L. F. 2006 CBI aims to enhance the linguistic, metacognitive and cognitive skills
& while learning the subject matter
Fitzsimmons- (Content-Based Instruction)
Doolan, S.
 Content based approach in communicative
Objective 2.
competence building
3 PRINCIPLES

● communication principle puts forward that activities involving real communication

promote language learning.

● the task principle activities in which language is used for carrying out
meaningful tasks promote language learning.

Another characteristic of Content-Based Instruction is the use of communication (Richards & Rodgers 2001: 204). There are
three principles of communication that define Communicative Language Teaching but which may also be applied to the
Content-Based approach.

● And, finally, the meaningfulness principle that implies that language that appears to be meaningful to the learner
will support the language learning process (Richards & Rodgers 2001: 161).
TASK 4. EXPERIMENTAL WORK

1 THE PLACE: School-lyceum named by S.Sattarov

2 PARTICIPANTS: 12 English learners per each group

9 ‘a’
9 ‘b’

3 THE PURPOSE OF THE The purpose of the experimental work is to

EXPERIMENT: test the scientific hypothesis of this study in
the experimental way.
THE SURVEY RESULTS AMONG LANGUAGE
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THE SURVEY RESULTS AMONG LANGUAGE
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