Characteristics of the Teacher
- some teachers are native speakers of the target language and others are nonnative speakers. While , it has been stressed that developing an appropriate and effective relationship between teachers and students is important in second language acquisition (Morris & Tarone, 2003)Although teamwork has often been found to be a key condition for successful CBI implementation (Gilzow & Branaman, 2000), the collaboration between language teachers and content teachers is often reported to be very challenging.
This is partly due to the different goals that the two types of teachers set in CBI
programs (Leung, 2001)