Speaker
Robert E Shiffer II
(Temple University Japan)
Description
The pilot class detailed in this paper was designed to match the contextual needs of advanced (CEFR B2-C1) EFL students in a grade 12 literature class in a Japanese international school context. The course was developed to match the language proficiency of the students to reduce their cognitive load in all but the targeted areas of critical thinking and collaborative skills, analytical, logical, and epistemic language skills, and skills for translating literary contents to the self and global contexts. This class incorporates a hard CLIL approach centered around learning how to take part in Socratic dialogues.
Author
Robert E Shiffer II
(Temple University Japan)