Project Work
Promoting Language and Content by F. Stoller
Introduction
It provides meaningful student engagement with both Language and
Content
● Involvement
● High level thinking
● Responsibility
● Distance from teacher dominated environment
● Student community of inquiry, authentic
communication,cooperative learning, collaboration and problem
solving.
CBI Content
based instruction
● Specific subject matter
● Stimulate students to think through TL
● Naturally integrates 4 skills
Research on cognitive
and educational
psychology shows:
Benefits are:
● Thematically organized topics are easier to
remember
● Coherent and meaningful topics lead to deeper
processing and better learning
● Student's motivation and learning are related and it
enhances student's abilities to process, recall and
elaborate
● Expertise in a topic develops when learners reinvest
their knowledge in a sequence of progressively
more complex tasks
CBI also allows the incorporation of
Explicit Language Satisfies student´s
Instruction language and content
needs in context
Explaining and anticipating the On the spot explanations
type of language the students will
use
CBI
● Natural integration
● Alternative assessment
● Apprenticeship learning
● Integrated skills instructions
● PW
● Scaffolding
● Strategy learning
● Use of graphic organizers
It is not group work, versatile vehicle for
integrated language and content
General
EAP ESP
English
English for Academic English for Specific
General Language Purposes Purposes
Pre-service In-service
Job oriented
Teaching Teaching
Occupational,
vocational While studying While teaching
professional
6 steps
Purpose statement Methodology
01 04
Hypothesis Analysis
02 05
Objectives Conclusions
03 06
Main
Characteristics
Of Project Work
Various Configurations
● Curricular objectives
● Course expectations
● Proficiency levels
● Interests
● Time constraints
● availability
3 types of Projects
01 02 03
Depending on the
structured unstructured semistructured
structure
The roles of both students and Topic, Defined by Defined by
teaches change material, students both students
methodology and teachers
presentations
decided by
teacher
Topics can be linked to
Real world Student´s
concerns interests
example:Italian students Examples: field trips
designed a leaflet about
the advantages of Real world
European Community
issues
Example: pros and cons
of censorship
Projects can differ
Date collecting techniques Sources of information
Deciding on the type of sources ● Research
● Text
● Correspondence
● Survey
● encounter
Ways in which information
is reported
Production,Performance ,organization
Incorporating Project
Works in the Classroom
10 steps
For Project Work
Developing Project
Work in Language
Classes
The thematic units are embedded in
integrated skills, content based course
with specific objectives
Objectives
Step 1: Theme
Fine - tuned by students and pooling
resources deciding if the topic is
reserachable
Step 2: Final outcome
Consider the nature, objectives and how to culminate
Teacher and students work together. Examples:
● Written report
● Letter
● Poster
● Bulletin board display
● Debate
● Oral presentation
● Information package
● Handbook
● Scrapbook
● Brochure
● Newspaper
● Video
● etc.
Example of
debating
Step 3
Body:
● What information?
● How?
● How will it be compiled and analyzed?
● Which are the roles?
● timeline?
Step 4: Activities
The instructor plans the activities and
creates a grid for data collection
Step 5: gather info
The instructor can bring potentially
important information to add to the
research.
Step 6: Language
demands of
compiling and
analyze data
The instructor sets up sessions for this
purpose
Step 7:
Assistance of technology sessions
Step 8: Language for the final
product
Instructor can bring improvement activities
Examples:
● Practising oral skills
● Receiving feedback on voice projection
● Pronunciation
● Organization of ideas
● Eye contact
● Editing and revising
Step 9:
Presentation of the
final product
Step 10: Students evaluate the
project
The fields that will be evaluated:
● Language
● Content
● Steps
● Effectiveness
● Reflective ideas
Your
conclusions
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