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Identifying and supporting language demands - Chadwick (Maths (Topic:…
Identifying and supporting language demands - Chadwick
Maths
Topic: Probability
students need content vocabulary for the task - teacher needs to help
what are the creative thinking skills that the students are using?
what is the functional language that goes with these skills?
zero conditional that is, if-clause + all the verbs in the present tense & comparative structure
what language skills are the students using? How will this affect the support provided?
students are mainly using speaking
get a handout
students do not have to write full sentences
better to demonstrate the instruction for the task before giving the students any written instructions, rather than at the same time
Geography
Topic: Industrial process and the impact such an activity has on the local community and environment
teacher wants students to work in pairs and wants them to think abou the avantages and disantvantages of having cement factory close to their own city
what content vocabulary do the students need?
students shall divie the vocabulary into nouns and verbs
students work in small groups and match words to their definitions (guess the meaning)
what creative thinking skills are the students using? what is the funcional language?
students are interpreting a diagram in order to describe a process
language they will need:
transition words that put things in sequence
present simple passive tense to descibe a process
second conditional, modal verbs of possibility and the present simple tense (advantages/disadvantages)
what language skills are the students using
mainly speaking and reading
one way to support the academic language while discussing the topic is to put the structures on the whiteboard and suggest to students that they should use some of this language and their own ideas
Science
teacher wants students to conduct an experiment in groups of four and to complete the laboratory report
what content vocabulary do the students need?
helpful to devide the words into nounsand verbs
what are the thinking skills that they are using? what is the functional language?
many cognitie processes: predicting, measuring, evaluating,...different functional language
what language skills are the students using?
teacher supports students mainly with writing a good laboratory report
teacher can provide the students with a handout: language stems under each heading
History
Topic: World War I
students have to read a variety of texts before they have a class debate
teacher wants the students to work in groups of six and debate the following statement: "German was largely responsible for the outbreak of World War I and therefore the demands of the Treaty of Versailles was fair.
what content vocabulary will the students need for the task?
majority of vocabulary given to help the students understand the texts
unfamiliar vocabulary
words which students can interpret from the context
words containing a language clue
words that students can manage without while still understanding the main point of a sentence
words that may mislead a student
words that students need explicit help with
what are the creative thinking skills that they are using? What is the functional language?
students are using a variety of creative thinking skills including recognising arguments and identifying purpose and bias
what language skills are the students using?
main skills are reading and speaking
one person in each group can be responsible for one chapter
teacher may start by looking at one of the extracts with the whole class examining different types of vocabulary
teache may provides a simple table for students to complete while reading to facilitate discussion with the other members of their group