Resources

One page Teaching Tactic: students work collaboratively and in role play, to understand historical agents.

One page Teaching Tactic: weekly schedule designed to encourage students to bring their questions and concerns to the subject matter.

One page Teaching Tactic: low-stakes quiz at the start of a unit to encourage student discussion and engagement.

One page Teaching Tactic: dealing with emotional outbursts or rude student behavior.

This article introduces English for Bible and Theology (EBT), an inherently interdisciplinary field that merges English language learning with the content of biblical and theological studies in a context that is, by nature, cross-cultural. Within this collaboration there exists the possibility not only to enable theological study, but also to enhance it through a focus on personal meaning and its communication, both of which are foundational to the communicative language classroom. That is, EBT seeks both to aid students worldwide in attaining the specialized language and cultural proficiency necessary to access English theological resources and to provide a community in which students can connect theological content to their lives. It is this second aim that provides EBT its relevance across a range of theological contexts, as native English-speaking students likewise stand to benefit from the application of EBT’s principles.