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Project work in the language classroom
Getxolinguae 2010
Keith Kelly
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The plan for today…
Definition of ‘Project’ Student focus Resources Language, Skills, Concepts Products Follow up – networks ([email protected])
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Home
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English-German School, Plovdiv
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‘Zh’ Class
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Speed reaction test
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Project work – defining what we mean‘At school and university, a project is a research assignment given to a studentwhich generally requires a larger amount of effort and more independent workthan is involved in a normal essay assignment. It requires students toundertake their own fact-finding and analysis, either from library/internetresearch or from gathering data empirically. The written report that comes fromthe project is usually in the form of a dissertation, which will contain sections onthe project's inception, methods of inquiry, analysis, findings and conclusions’. (Answers.com)
• fun• student-focused• curriculum-focused• integrated skills• structured and product-led(KK)
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Project work - Curriculum
Locate the curriculum guidelines for subjects you are interested in
UK National Curriculum:
Guidelines, resources, samples of work
Example - What goes on in Science?
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Exploring content resources
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Your own GM person
Create …
… and present
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The language of heredity
Describing facial featuresS/He has / has gotHer/His … is/are …(brown, green, blue, blond, red, grey)(round, thin, fat, long, short, flat, curly, straight, spiky, wavy)
Naming parts of the faceEyes, nose, ears, earlobes, eyebrows,hair, chin, cheeks
Describing inherited characteristicsHe gets his … from his …She gets her … from her …He looks like his …She looks like her …He takes after his … with hisShe takes after her … with herHe has inherited his mother’s …She has inherited her mother’s …
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Curriculum area?
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Curriculum area?
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Project work - ResourcesScience Across the World
a) a bank of resources for general Science projects
b) a database of contacts for carrying out a curriculum exchange project with a school in another country,
c) an internet-based and ICT focus to learning.
Example – What did you eat?
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Ice Cream Consumption in Europe Who eats the most?
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Food and drink diary
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Project work - Skills
- research work
- dealing with data (gathering, presenting)
- presentation work
Example - HeredityHair colour, eye colour, skin colour, height, ear lobes, mid finger hair, tongue rolling
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Let's Launch a Rocket
Content projects for language learning
Design Build Test Observe Present
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Observe and present
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What’s going on here…?
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Creating cosmetics
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Other ‘Product’ projects
24 paper airplanes to create and fly http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/
Bridge building challenges http://42explore.com/bridge.htm
School partnership projects
Chemistry as a Cultural Enterprise
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Conclusions and getting started
1) Explore the content curriculum:- resources- skills - the language
2) Identify an appealing aspect of this context for you and students
- a skill - PPTs- a grammar area - passive voice - general academic language for the content curriculum - economy
3) Offer a focus in your language lesson (large or small).
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References Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching
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Young learners and teens group [email protected], onestopclil discussion forum
www.onestopclil.com/forum_board.asp?catid=80
Gibbons, P (2002) Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning, Heinemann
Science across the world www.scienceacross.org Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council,
www.bbsrc.ac.uk UK National Curriculum Website http://curriculum.qca.org.uk/
