Integrating Language and Content Instruction in a Health Awareness Course for Medical Students
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Content-based instruction (CBI) is an integrated-skills approach for teaching English as a second or foreign language(ESL/EFL) that emphasizes learning content while simultaneously developing language skills. This approach hasbeen gaining popularity in EFL programs in Japanese universities (Crawford, 2004; Hadley, 1999; Mackenzie, 2000;Murphy, 1997). Previous research on content-based language instruction has shown that this approach is “especiallyeffective in promoting the acquisition of second language academic and professional language skills” (UCLA Centerfor World Languages, 2006, p.1). CBI enhances critical thinking skills (Stoller, 2002) and enables students “to learnthe language more quickly and with more pleasure” (Murphy, 1997, p.5). Content-based courses can be related tolanguage education, such as courses in public speaking or American culture, or have a non-language focus, such ascourses in math or maritime science. This article describes an example of a non-language focused content course, acourse in health awareness, that the author has designed and implemented for first-year Akita University medicalstudents. This paper begins with a brief explanation of content-based instruction, the principles underlying thisapproach, and a description of three general CBI models. This is followed by a detailed description of the course,including the rationale for selecting health awareness as the theme for the course, the course objectives, the materialsand activities utilized, and the students’ response to the course.
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