Classroom

Content and Language Learning Across the Curriculum

1. The Principles:

   Principle 1: Know your learners - their language background, their language proficiency, their experiential background.
   Principle 2: Identify the learning outcomes including the language demands of the teaching and learning.
   Principle 3: Maintain and make explicit the same learning outcomes for all the learners.
   Principle 4: Begin with context embedded tasks which make the abstract concrete.
   Principle 5: Provide multiple opportunities for authentic language use with a focus on students using academic language.
   Principle 6: Ensure a balance between receptive and productive language.
   Principle 7: Include opportunities for monitoring and self-evaluation.

2. Using the Principles in the Classroom: Secondary

   • Content and Language Learning in Secondary Maths: Measurement

   • Maths teachers discuss the strategies

     • Archives of the Maths Listserv Discussion
     • Strategies contributed by Maths teachers on the listserv discussion

   • Content and Language Learning in Secondary Science: Acids and Bases

   • An exemplary Unit : The Material World: Chemistry

   • Science teachers discuss the strategies

     • Archives of the Science Listserv Discussion
     • Strategies contributed by Science teachers on the listserv discussion

3. Using the Principles in the Classroom: Primary

   • Content and Language Learning in Primary Science: Magnetism