Using English as the Language of Science: An International Peer Video Exchange on Ecology

Autor/inn/en	Meyerhöffer, Nina; Dreesmann, Daniel C.
Titel	Using English as the Language of Science: An International Peer Video Exchange on Ecology
Quelle	In: American Biology Teacher, 83 (2021) 3, S.154-160 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-7685
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Science Education; Peer Teaching; Video Technology; Ecology; Content and Language Integrated Learning; Secondary School Students; Grade 7; Grade 8; Foreign Countries; Student Motivation; Pretests Posttests; Science Achievement; German; Germany; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Peer group teaching; Peer Group Teaching; Ökologie; CLIL; Lernkonzept; Sekundarschüler; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Ausland; Schulische Motivation; Deutscher; Deutschland; USA
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01