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Emblem of The Education University of Hong Kong
Faculty of Humanities

Why Schools Matter: An Ethnographic and Ecological Approach to Understanding Language-in-education Policy

  • 06 Jan, 2020 | 12:30 - 14:00
  • B4-LP-03
  • Department of English Language Education
  • Seminar
  • English
  • Dr Peter De Costa
  • Department of English Language Education
Why Schools Matter: An Ethnographic and Ecological Approach to Understanding Language-in-education Policy

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Speaker: Dr Peter DE COSTA (Michigan State University, USA)

 

How to integrate content learning with language learning has been a central issue in current research on CLIL (Dalton-Puffer et al.,2010). In this paper I present our experience in developing an innovative approach, ‘Concept+Language Mapping’ (CLM) (Lin & He, 2017; He & Lin, 2019), by drawing on Lemke (1990)’s ‘thematic patterns’ theory to tackle the challenge of integrating language scaffolding into the teaching of complex content topics in secondary science classrooms in Hong Kong. Implications for content-based language education as well as ‘language aware’ content education will be discussed

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Why Schools Matter: An Ethnographic and Ecological Approach to Understanding Language-in-education Policy
Why Schools Matter: An Ethnographic and Ecological Approach to Understanding Language-in-education Policy
Why Schools Matter: An Ethnographic and Ecological Approach to Understanding Language-in-education Policy