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Principled Planning for Content and Language Learning

These exemplified principles are for all curriculum areas. The practical examples are from science.
Acronyms
  1. Know Your Learners - their experiential background, their language background, their language proficiency
  2. Identify the learning outcomes including the language demands of the teaching and learning
  3. Maintain the same learning outcomes for all the learners and make them explicit
  4. Begin with context embedded tasks which make the abstract concrete
  5. Provide multiple opportunities for authentic language use
  6. Ensure a balance between receptive and productive language use
  7. Include opportunities for monitoring and self-evaluation