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Project work in the language classroom

Getxolinguae 2010

Keith Kelly

keithpkelly@yahoo.co.uk

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The plan for today…

Definition of ‘Project’ Student focus Resources Language, Skills, Concepts Products Follow up – networks (factworld@yahoogroups.com)

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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 younglearners@yahoogroups.com, 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/

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