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               A Review of Research on Content-Based Instruction in International
                                          Chinese Language Education
                                                        Guan Lanlan
                           School of Sinology and Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University



               Abstract The papers  related  to  content-based  Instruction  (CBI)  in  international  Chinese  language  education
               published on China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) are sorted out and analyzed to review the current
               research status of CBI in international Chinese language education, and to find that there are problems of a relatively
               single research perspective and insufficient scientific research in the current research, and to put forward some
               suggestions.

               Keywords CBI; international Chinese language education; research review

                                                        I. Introduction
                   Content-based Instruction (CBI), originated from the Montreal Immersion Program in Canada in the 1960s,
               and is a school of language teaching popular in Europe and the United States in the 1980s.Mohan is one of the
               founders of the CBI teaching concept. He pointed out that "the separation of language and professionalism has
               deprived language of its instrumental role and communication of its purpose and authenticity".CBI is a way of
               organizing instruction that combines language learning and other subjects in a way that uses language content (e.g.,
               topics) as a framework.Leaver and Stryker (1989) point out that CBI should have four characteristics: being topic-
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               focused, using authentic language materials, learning new information, and meeting the special needs of learners.
               Met (1999) suggests five characteristics of CBI based on the importance of "language" and "content". Based on the
               importance of "language" and "content", Met (1999) proposes five models of language teaching in CBI: first, full
               and partial immersion; second, the use of a second language to teach a specialized class, such as sheltered; third, a
               specialized  class  plus  language  instruction,  such  as  supplemental;  fourth,  a  theme-based  model  of  language
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               teaching; and fifth, a model of language teaching in which the content is often used for practice  . In order to make
               CBI effectively used in teaching practice, Stoller (1997) proposed the 6T approach, which are Themes, Topics,
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               Texts, Threads, Tasks and Transitions  . In a word, CBI theory has a lot of research results in foreign countries and
               has established a relatively complete theoretical system.
                   Since the concept of CBI was introduced to China in 1994, the research fever of domestic scholars on CBI has
               been rising. The research on CBI in the domestic academic circles mainly focuses on the field of foreign language
               teaching, and the research results are very rich. However, CBI also has important application value in international
               Chinese language education and has accumulated many research results. Therefore, this paper analyzes the papers
               related to content-based pedagogy research in international Chinese language education, and reviews the current
               status of content-based pedagogy research and problems in the field of international Chinese language education.
                                            II. Data collection and statistical methods
                   The  author  conducted  searches  on  the  CNKI  using  several  keywords  such  as  "CBI,"  "Content-Based
               Instruction," "Content-Based Teaching Method," and "Content-Oriented Teaching" to retrieve journal articles and
               theses. Eventually, 30 papers were selected as the research subjects for this article.





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               33. Stoller, F , and Grabe, W. A six-T's approach to content-bases instruction[M].NY:Longman, 1997.

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