Meaning and context are in the front seat. Language learning should include whole language, not language fragments. Language learning should be functional. Language should be learned in meaningful context. Core matter should be authentic.
Students use the foreign language to learn new information and to evaluate the information.
The topics, content matter, and activities should correspond to the cognitive, linguistic, and affective needs of the students. CBI became the foundation for Immersion Programs as early as the 1960s. It has been extremely successful in Canada.