by Weizmar Lozada
Content-based Instruction
• Use of content from other disciplines in language teaching.
• Build on students’ previous knowledge.
• Students motivated to learn because of relevance.
• Teachers help to develop linguistic content.
• Language is learned best when it is used to bring interesting
information.
• Vocabulary can be easily acquired with contextual cues.
Content-based Instruction
• Teachers provides learners with a natural context
for language use.
• Activity has purpose and results.
• Learners use authentic materials to practice
language.
Task-based Instruction
• Teachers go through a pre-task with students
before they work individually.
• Teachers go through the task step-by-step.
• Communicative competence = able to read, discuss,
write about content of other fields.
• Level is i + 1
Task-based Instruction
• Teacher-student negotiation, ask for feedback.
• Teachers use language naturally.
• Teachers repeat the correct form to reinforce.
• Students do a task in groups; practice authentic
listening and speaking.
Task-based Instruction
• Students receive feedback based on the content .
• Students have input just for creating a way to
complete a task.
Project- Based Learning PBL
The main purpose of PBL is:
• To engage students in learning process.
• To provide an environment for the acquisition of
skills needed in education and workplace.
• To teach curricular content.
• To build new skills.
Project- Based Learning PBL
Elements of PBL:
• Standards Based
• Assessment
• Student Centered
• Collaboration
• Real World Connection
• Multimedia
Project- Based Learning PBL
PBL
consists of
organize
Contents
to create
Activities
using
Conditions
to produce
Results
Project- Based Learning PBL
Content:
Focused its attention on:
• Problems presented in students environment.
• Students find connections between ideas.
• Real-world questions that students care about.
Project- Based Learning PBL
Conditions:
Support student autonomy:
• Students get involved on learning communities.
• Class-work is in a social context.
• Students direct their own work and learning.
• Students simulate the professional work.
Project- Based Learning PBL
Activities:
Investigative and engaging:
• Students get involved in investigations over long
periods of time.
• Students make their own connections among ideas
and acquiring new skills
• Students use authentic tools.
• Students get feedback from teachers and realistic
assessment.
Project- Based Learning PBL
Results
Real-world outcomes:
• Students create complex and intellectual products
to demonstrate learning.
• Students participate in assessments.
• Students show development in real-world
competence.
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based Learning
Emphasizes
Teaching role
Teaching role
• Follows fixed curriculum
• Follows student interest
• Proceeds block by block, unit
• Large units composed of
by unit
complex problems or issues
• Narrow, discipline-based focus
• Broad, interdisciplinary focus
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based Learning
Emphasizes
Materials of instruction
Materials of instruction
• Texts, lectures and
• Direct or original sources:
presentations
printed materials, interviews,
• Teacher-developed exercise
documents, and others
sheets and activities
• Data and materials
developed by students
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Project Based Learning
Emphasizes
Classroom context
Classroom context
• Students working alone
• Students working in groups
• Students competing with one
• Students collaborating with one
another
another
• Students receiving information
• Students constructing,
from an instructor
contributing, and synthesizing
information
Traditional Instruction
Emphasizes
Student role
• Carry out instructions
• Memorizer and repeater of facts
• Students receive and complete brief
tasks
• Listen, behave, speak only when
spoken to
Project Based Learning
Emphasizes
Student role
• Carry out self- directed learning
activities
• Discoverer, integrator, and presenter of
ideas
• Students define their own tasks and
work independently for large blocks of
time
• Communicate, show affect, produce,
take responsibility