Genghis
What she did: She read-up on CBT and CLIL. She has decided to conduct research based on the CLIL characteristics.
Her research questions are:
- What can be problems when teachers do CLIL in Japanese high schools?
- What kind of CLIL can we do based on the course of study and high school English textbooks?
- What kind of effects can we expect by implementing CLIL?
Here methodology is
- Textbook analysis and literature review
James requests for next week:
- Learn more about CBI, CBLT, CLIL and its underlying philosophy. Look at the interview with Professor Ikeda and find new sources. What kind of research did you find that is useful to planning your study?
- Make a proposal for WHAT you will compare and HOW.
One potential topic:
Compare content of textbooks.
Compare CLIL aspects of textbooks.
Choose textbooks that might be most appropriate for a CLIL approach.
Propose a CLIL curriculum using a particular textbook.
Potential outline
L Review (20 pages)
- The English textbook in Japan
- CLIL
- history of CLIL in Japan
- Research questions
Methodology (8 – 10 pages)
- Explain your criteria in detail.
- Explain the textbooks you chose for analysis and why you chose the textbooks
Results (20 – 30 pages)
- Use your criteria to analyze each textbook
Discussion (15 – 20 pages)
- Conclude which textbooks can be used for CLIL
- Propose a curriculum using that textbook
Teddy
Can the tests measure the ability of students?
- Analyzing the construct validity in the four skills of the eiken and high school entrance exam.
- Comparing level of difficulty in vocabulary of the liken and high school entrance exam.
- Comparing reading skills necessary for the liken and HS exam.
- Comparing text difficulty of the eiken 3rd level, high school entrance exam, sunshine, and new crown textbook.
Related questions to number 4:
- Can JHS textbook reading passages prepare students to take Eiken or HS entrance exam?
- Things to compare: content, passage type, vocabulary difficulty, number of words, question types (inferential, finding information, etc.), text difficulty calculations, can dos etc…
Next time: What kind of analyses should you perform to answer this question? What kind of topics would you write about in your literature review.