12月08日(日)
|Kobe Gakuin University, 17th floor MINT
Classroom Activity Types and their Relationship to Cognitive Discourse Functions
The presentation discusses a long-term research project that employs the Cognnitive Discourse Functions to analyse the discourse of the most commonly occurring CLIL subject in the undergraduate language teaching context in Japan, intercultural studies.
Time & Location
2024年12月08日 14:00 – 15:30 JST
Kobe Gakuin University, 17th floor MINT , 7-chōme-1-1 Kumoidōri, Chuo Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 651-0096, Japan
About the Event
CLIL, the CDF construct, and the Speech of Intercultural Studies
English medium education (EME) and content and language integrated pedagogies (CLIL) continue to expand into the tertiary undergraduate education sector in Japan, with their delivery frequently the responsibility of the language teacher. However, there is little scholarly work in this context describing the functional structuring of discourse and its
implications for academic literacy. This presentation is divided into three foci. The first focuses on CLIL pedagogy, theory, and practice, and introduces the Cognitive Discourse Function construct (CDF), a framework commonly used to conceptualise the integration aspect of CLIL. The second focus presents a long-term research project that employs the CDF to analyse the discourse of the most commonly occurring CLIL subject in the undergraduate language teaching context in Japan, intercultural studies. The project consists of analysis of over 1500 minutes of speech, the largest corpus using this methodology to date.…