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Language demands for a history lesson according to Chadwick (About the…
Language demands for a history lesson according to Chadwick
Concerning Vocabulary
What vocabularay do they need? (Content Vocabulary)
5 Types of unknown vocabulary
Words that may
mislead
a student eg.: "modest" from extract A
Words that students can
manage without
while still understanding the main point of a sentence eg.: "weird moral stand" from extract A
Words containing a
language clue
eg.: "ultimatum" from extract A
Words that students
need explicit help with
eg.: "fastidious", "concilatory" from extract A
Words which students can
interpret from the context
eg.: "averted" from extract A
Concerning Functional Language
Students need to be able to...
... select relevant material and construct arguments
... present arguments
... identify purpose and bias
... express personal opinions
... recognize arguments
... present Conclusions
Looking at Extract A
Appears to be complex...
... but is a simple repitition of statement in third conditional
Concerning Language Skills
Language Skills needed for Chadwick's task:
Speaking
Reading
Teacher might look at one extract together with their students
Teacher might provide auxiliary items like sentence stems.
Not every student of a group needs to read ervery extract
About the sample task
Groups of 6 students
50% pro vs 50% contra the statement
Debate the statement:
"Germany was largely responsible for the outbreak of World War I and therefore the demands of the Treaty of Versailles were fair and just"
6 pieces of text used as sources
World War I
2 sample extracts are provided