Welcome everyone, I’m Antonio Domínguez, an student from Education Faculty of Ceuta, and this is English Teaching.

In this chapter I will speak about CBI, which are the initials for Content-Based Instruction. CBI consist in the integration between the second language teaching and the rest of school subjects. There are a lot of CBI models: one of them is “immersion”, where students receive most of their teaching in the second language. Another one CBI model is the “content-enriched foreign language” which tries to link the standard school curriculum with second language teaching. For example, if the Sciences teacher is giving lessons about animals, students will study the same in the second language subject, in this way both subjects will develop hand to hand. If the students are studying plants on Sciences they will do activities about the same topic in the second language class. ?One of the advantages is that allows both teachers to work in team and that will help in order to satisfy students learning needs. Another advantage is that students will learn standard contents and a second language at the same time, giving them the opportunity to get their communicative competence. In the other hand we have the disadvantage that there are not a lot of materials because commercial texts don’t reach the level that CBI models require. But that doesn’t have to be a disadvantage, new technologies offer us a lot of tools and materials and both teachers will have to be able to colaborate in order to elaborate good quality materials that will help to reach their goals.

And that’s all, see you in my next podcast!