Content-based Language Teaching to Arouse Students’ Interest in EFL Context

Abstract

This proposed paper focuses on some practical ways of generating students’ interest through content-based teaching. It is “Interest” that is essential in teaching/ learning a foreign language like English. The use of available technology, the Internet, helps both teachers and students to access a large amount of up-to-date materials free of charge. Thus, students become more motivated in language learning and would likely to perform or share their parts as language learners since more enthusiasm is created owing to interesting contents of authentic texts. This paper is written based on different sources of articles depicting the background theories and role of content-based language teaching. In this respect, the teacher acts as a moderator/manager to keep the teaching/ learning process in action. Upon applying the proposed method, learning English becomes more enjoyable and dynamic. Moreover, students’ language skills are fostered and their word-powers are reinforced up to a certain level.