Our topic-based approach to learning language and literacy is aimed at ensuring that there is creativity in all subjects of the integrated curriculum to get our students engaged and motivated in their learning process.
According to the British Council, topic or content-based instruction has become increasingly popular as a means of developing linguistic ability.
It has strong connections to project work, task-based learning and a holistic approach to language instruction and has become particularly popular within the state school secondary (11 - 16 years old) education sector.
The focus of a topic-based lesson is on the topic or subject matter. During the lesson students are focused on learning about something. This could be anything that interests them from a serious science subject to their favourite pop star or even a topical news story or film. They learn about this subject using the language they are trying to learn, rather than their native language, as a tool for developing knowledge and so they develop their linguistic ability in the target language. This is thought to be a more natural way of developing language ability and one that corresponds more to the way we originally learn our first language
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