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This document discusses three approaches to language teaching: content-based, task-based, and participatory. [1] The content-based approach teaches subjects like physics and geography using the target language. [2] The task-based approach focuses on student participation and interaction through information-gap, opinion-gap, and reasoning-gap activities. [3] The participatory approach aims to involve students and have the teacher act as a mediator, helping students with problems in the subject being taught.

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Reflection II

This document discusses three approaches to language teaching: content-based, task-based, and participatory. [1] The content-based approach teaches subjects like physics and geography using the target language. [2] The task-based approach focuses on student participation and interaction through information-gap, opinion-gap, and reasoning-gap activities. [3] The participatory approach aims to involve students and have the teacher act as a mediator, helping students with problems in the subject being taught.

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CONTENT-BASED, TASK-BASED, AND PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES

In Content-Based Approach the teacher uses different subjects such as physics,


geography, etc which are given in the target language. That is, content of the subjects have
significance in this approach, rather than language skills.

In this approach, the teacher uses a passage related to the content of the course. Firstly
S/He tries to remind the students the former knowledge of them about this subject by asking
questions. By listening their experiences, S/He demonstrates the students that S/He cares about
them, their emotions and ideas. So in this approach students are active participants. The teacher
acts as a mediator by aiding his/her students when they have problem with the subject.

Content-Based approach has subcategories which are immersion, adjunct model and
sheltered language instruction. In immersion academic subjects are learnt through the target
language. In adjunct model, the content is learnt in one class and the language is learnt in the
other one. In sheltered-language instruction, both native and non-native students study, yet in
different classes. However they follow the same curriculum. Non-native ones spend much more
time for developing the second language. But I cannot grasp sheltered-language instruction
effectively.

To sum up, in this approach, the students learn a language with the aid of various subjects.
They have a purpose to learn a second language. They can reach a high level in a specific area if
this approach is employed.

In Task-Based Instruction, participation of the students is fundamental. The teacher starts


his/her lesson yet then S/He attempts to involve the students in class. It provides social
interaction. The students evaluate each other and give feedback. There are three kinds of tasks
which Prabhu mentioned about. Information-gap activity in which students exchange their
knowledge on a specific knowledge, Opinion-gap activity in which the students tell about their
personal ideas, Reasoning-gap activity in which the students make inferences with the aid of the
information they are given.
I have difficulty in comprehending the rest of the lesson due to the fact that I couldn’t
attend the last hour of that class.

ACTIVITIES

A1- In Communicative Language Teaching, tasks for daily life are available such as inviting,
requesting, etc. Yet in Task-Based Approach task completion with the aid of the target language
is essential. Therefore in CLT, functions of a language which are easily applicable in daily life
are learnt. I think CLT aims at communicative competence much more than the Task-Based
Approach.

A2- Content-Based Instruction is called ‘a method with many faces’. Since it provides both
language competence and academic sufficiency in a specific area such as geography, psychology,
physics. That is, as I have mentioned above, it aims at teaching language for a specific purpose.

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