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Brown Ch15
Brown Ch15
Brown Ch15
• Pre-reading discussion
• Listening for information about the topic
• Focus on reading strategies (such as scanning)
• Writing a paraphrase of a section of the passage
It’s not just the four skills but the whole social
personal emotional context in which they occur
Five Models of integration proposed by Brown.
1. Content-based instruction.
Content rules, language learning is subordinate.
Question: Are all theme based units likely to appeal to all students
equally? What is your experience with theme based classes?
The environment: “With this topic you are sure to find immediate
intrinsic motivation- we all want to survive!...”.
What do you think of Brown’s program? .
3. Experiential learning
(learning by doing, and inductive learning through discovery activates
strategies which result in learning autonomy).
Meaning is primary