“…CTL is a strategy that engages adult learners and promotes improved skills development by helping instructors relate subject matter to real-world situations and experiences (Berns, 2001). Throughout the literature (Ambrose, Davis, Zeigler, & Kirvan, 2013), various terminology is used for the practice of systematically connecting basic skills instruction to specific content that is meaningful and useful to students; contextual teaching and learning, contextualized instruction, content area literacy, embedded instruction, integrative curriculum, situated cognition, problem-based learning, theme-based instruction, anchored instruction, curriculum integration, academic–occupation integration, work-based learning , and functional context education (Perin, 2011; Specht, 2008; Wenger & Lave, 1991). Each of these descriptions has been used to express or define CTL (Carrigan, 2008).…”