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Date Posted: 18:46:14 10/09/05 Sun
Author: Jane Queiroz
Subject: Re: Citing resources: Teaching English through interdisciplinary content
In reply to: Jefferson 's message, "Citing resources: Teaching English through interdisciplinary content" on 12:10:13 10/09/05 Sun

>First, it is relevant to mention that Content Based
>Instruction approach is a highly recommended way of
>employing interdisciplinary English lessons.
>According to (Krahnke, 1987:65) CBI stands for:
>
>“It is the teaching of content or information in the
>language being learned with little or no direct or
>explicit effort to teach the language itself
>separately from the content being taught.” (1)
>
>Based on this, students are more likely to receive
>meaningful input and produce output with much more
>confidence while working with a subject that they are
>familiar with. In other words, their capacity of
>production is highly connected to the amount of
>decoded information. As a result, vocabulary, is
>enlarged, internalized and becomes a key factor to
>reading development
>
> This situation leads them to feel that some English
>lessons are not relevant to their needs or they are
>not able to learn the language. In other words, they
>fell discouraged to keep up studying English. On the
>other hand, CBI interdisciplinary English lessons are
>highly contextualized due to their relation to a
>previous exposure to the content in other classes from
>different areas when English tasks or texts were
>assigned. According to Jack C. Richards and Theodore
>S. Rodgers (2001:207), “CBI better reflects learner’s
>needs for learning a second language”. Furthermore,
>learners’ interest is triggered because they consider
>themselves able to learn English and review some
>issues discussed in other disciplines as well.

Dear Jefferson,
I've read that this a cotation must be a unique block when it is longer than 40 words. Could you check that?
Regards,
Jane

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  • Re: Citing resources: Teaching English through interdisciplinary content -- Eduardo Ferreira Costa, 19:25:03 10/09/05 Sun
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