Creese criticizes the approach to CBLT in western countries. It has been claimed that the UK approach cannot be considered content-based language teaching. Creese’s study supports this, by arguing that:
•the EAL teacher does most of the language work while the subject teachers focus on the curriculum work
•when teachers focus on the referential (as opposed to metalinguistic) function of language they concentrate mainly on introducing new vocabulary.
A practical strategy for improving students' reading comprehension skills. Appears relevant to my own context because of the difficulties experienced by learners. This is a simple yet effective strategy which could be incorporated easily into all lessons - I can see its relevance in CBLT and other reading education settings.
This article uses a high school science class to see how language was used to connect theory and practice. It draws on classroom data analysed from a functional linguistic perspective, exploring the nature of science as a socially constructed practice.