Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms

Based on a longitudinal study of an international educational programme in English as the participants' lingua franca, this chapter argues for 'integrative explaining' as a new construct that offers direct access to analysing content and language integrated learning at the micro-level...

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Main Authors Dalton, Christiane, Nikula, Tarja, Smit, Ute
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010
Benjamins
John Benjamins
Edition1
SeriesAILA applied linguistics series
Subjects
Applied linguistics
Aufsatzsammlung
Beatles
Bilingualer Unterricht
Great Britain
Language
Language acquisition
Language and languages
Language and languages > Study and teaching
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
Language teaching
Rock musicians
Study and teaching
United States
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Summary:Based on a longitudinal study of an international educational programme in English as the participants' lingua franca, this chapter argues for 'integrative explaining' as a new construct that offers direct access to analysing content and language integrated learning at the micro-level. A detailed discourse-pragmatic analysis of twelve lessons spread over two years in this tertiary classroom community of practice has revealed distinct patterns of explaining subject-specific versus general terms and expressions. The results offer new and revealing insights into, firstly, the community-specific discursive 'principle of joint forces' and, secondly, the different activation of subject- vs. language expertise in discursively integrating new concepts into already shared knowledge.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9027287511
9789027287519
9789027205230
902720523X