Content Based Instruction (CBI)

The most important features to consider about methods according to the eclectic approach are:

1. Roots:

• Communicative approach

• The idea of integrating language instruction with content learning gained prominence in the 1980s with the "language across the curriculum" movement. Educators recognized that language skills were essential for academic success across various subjects. As a result, they explored ways to teach language while delivering content knowledge.

2. Steps or stages to follow

3. Drawbacks and Advantages: Here you will find some of them but you will define more of them from practice.

These two last features are presented in the following infography