CONTENT-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING IN EUROPEAN...
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CONTENT-BASED
LANGUAGE LEARNING IN
EUROPEAN CLASSES
Polonca Zalokar
School Centre Celje
Grammar School Lava
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EUROPEAN CLASSES
• a pilot project
• prepared by the National Education
Institute of Slovenia
• selected grammar schools in Slovenia
• since 2004/05 7th generation
• the main goal: innovative approaches in
grammar schools (upper secondary
general education)
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EUROPEAN CLASSES-
INNOVATIVE APPROACHES
• integrative curriculum
• new elective subjects
• authentic learning
• project-based work
• emphasized role of foreign languages and
mother tongue
• team teaching
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NEW ELECTIVE SUBJECTS
-The emphasized role of foreign languages:
• Slovenia In the World
• Culture and Civilization
-The emphasized role of mother tongue:
• Social Roles of Slovene
• Slovene Literature in Translation
-European and intercultural dimension:
• European Studies
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EMPHASIZED ROLE OF
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
• foreign language means for acquiring
content in 2 elective subjects
• smaller classes
• 2 teachers per 1 group: Slovene teacher of
foreign language + foreign teacher (native
speaker) team teaching
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SLOVENIA IN THE WORLD
• 2nd year
• promotion of Slovenia (knowledge of home
town, school, geography, history, politics,
culture, language, food, tourist attractions,
symbols,…)
• authentic content
• content-based language learning
• international exchange
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A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
• projectSlovenia in school subjects
• 10 lessons
• plan
• 1 student- 1 topic
• presentation of tasks
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TASKS
• 10- minute oral presentation
• product
• handout for other students
• consultations
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SLOVENE
Slovene
writers, poets,
playwrights:
-Primoţ Trubar
-Adam Bohorič
-France Prešeren
-Drago Jančar
-Brina Svit, etc.
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MATHEMATICS
Slovene mathematicians
and their contribution to
mathematics:
-Jurij Vega (logarithm)
-Josip Plemelj (Plemelj
formula)
-Franc Močnik and
-Blaţ Matek.
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HISTORY
10 milestones in Slovene history:
-the Roman era
-the Counts of Celje
-the first Slovene book
-Yugoslavia
-the independence of Slovenia, etc.
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GEOGRAPHY
natural disasters
in Slovenia:
-floods
-earthquakes
-landslides
-droughts
-hailstorms, etc.
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PHYSICS
The contribution of
Slovene physicists
to physics: Stefan-
Boltzmann law
(Slovene physicists:
Joţe Štefan)
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BIOLOGY
autochtonous
animals in
Slovenia
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BIOLOGY autochthonous plants
in Slovenia
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CHEMISTRY Chemical industry in
Slovenia: Cinkarna Celje, Helios,Domţale, Krka, Lek, etc.
Fritz Pregl, chemist and physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analysishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microanalysis
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THE ARTS
Slovene painters, architects and musicians: their works, short biographies
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PHYSICAL
EDUCATION Slovene athletes:
-Tina Maze
-Lucija Polavder
-Dejan Zavec
-Urška Ţolnir
-Petra Majdič, etc.
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PSYCHOLOGY
the character of the
Slovenes
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Slovenes in the Guiness
World Records book: Martin
Strel (the longest journey
swimming), Davo Karničar
(uninterrupted descent of
Mt. Everest on skis , Tomaţ
Humar (climber), Jolanda
Čeplak (athlete), Benka
Pulko (world-traveller on
motorbike), etc.
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Thank you.