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Using English as the Language of Science
Nina MeyerhöfferDaniel Dreesmannsubject
050101 languages & linguisticsEcologyBilingual educationEcology (disciplines)05 social sciencesForeign language050301 educationAgricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Science educationlanguage.human_languageEducationTest (assessment)GermanContent and language integrated learningOut-of-school learningComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATIONlanguage0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesPsychology0503 educationdescription
This article presents the development and testing of a content-based video exchange model as a motivating means to introduce lower secondary English learners to English as the language of science. The central goal was that students reach the required curricular content knowledge despite learning some of the content in a foreign language. The model was tested in German seventh-grade classes (n = 133), in which the students communicated with U.S. eighth-graders on the topic of ecology. Following field trips to a forest and a desert ecosystem, students presented and compared biotic and abiotic data in videos. The German students’ content knowledge and their motivation were assessed in a pretest/posttest design. They met the curricular outcome requirements, and their motivation was remarkably high at both test times. We discuss implications for further application of the exchange model.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-01 | The American Biology Teacher |