ContentBased Language Learning Advantages of CBLL Prepares students

Content-Based Language Learning

Advantages of CBLL • Prepares students for future studies and workplace • Teachers have established content from which to draw • Students are motivated • Research shows students do well; even those with learning disabilities

Best Teaching Practice = Best Language Teaching • • • Student-centered Task-based Hands-on Interactive Scaffolding Collaborative Differentiated Reflective Teacher created/approved curriculum Cross-curricular Affective filter

Begin with Learning Outcomes Learning outcomes: • • • Provide focus for learning Provide guidelines (knowledge, skills, attitudes) Targets for assessments Goal setting for students Communicates non-negotiable expectations

Learning Outcomes for CBLL • Link outcomes related to content, language and learning skills • Content is the primary focus • Front-load vocabulary • Cross-curricular • Real world connections • Focus on learning skills

Adapting Lessons (TO, pgs. 13 -16) • Simplify text • Make text visual • Analysing language in advance

Teaching Strategies • • • Copy, label, one-word answers Visuals: photos, diagrams, charts Key vocabulary Repetition Hands-on, task-based Use L 1 Pair with talkative native speaker Realia Games, songs, movement Vary activities

Resources Brown, H. Douglas. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, Fifth Ed. , Pearson Education, 2007. Deller, Sheelah and Christine Price. Teaching Other Subjects Through English, Oxford University Press, 2007. Mehisto, Peeter, David Marsh and Maria Jesús Frigols. Uncovering CLIL: Content and Language Integrated Learning in Bilingual and Multilingual Education, Macmillan Education, 2008.