Keith Kelly Getxolinguae2010

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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])

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)

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?

Curriculum area?

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?

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

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).

Discount

References Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching

www.factworld.info [email protected]

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/