CONTENT-BASED

LANGUAGE LEARNING IN

EUROPEAN CLASSES

Polonca Zalokar

School Centre Celje

Grammar School Lava

EUROPEAN CLASSES

• a pilot project

• prepared by the National Education

Institute of Slovenia

• selected grammar schools in Slovenia

• since 2004/05 7th generation

• the main goal: innovative approaches in

grammar schools (upper secondary

general education)

EUROPEAN CLASSES-

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES

• integrative curriculum

• new elective subjects

• authentic learning

• project-based work

• emphasized role of foreign languages and

mother tongue

• team teaching

NEW ELECTIVE SUBJECTS

-The emphasized role of foreign languages:

• Slovenia In the World

• Culture and Civilization

-The emphasized role of mother tongue:

• Social Roles of Slovene

• Slovene Literature in Translation

-European and intercultural dimension:

• European Studies

EMPHASIZED ROLE OF

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

• foreign language means for acquiring

content in 2 elective subjects

• smaller classes

• 2 teachers per 1 group: Slovene teacher of

foreign language + foreign teacher (native

speaker) team teaching

SLOVENIA IN THE WORLD

• 2nd year

• promotion of Slovenia (knowledge of home

town, school, geography, history, politics,

culture, language, food, tourist attractions,

symbols,…)

• authentic content

• content-based language learning

• international exchange

A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE

• projectSlovenia in school subjects

• 10 lessons

• plan

• 1 student- 1 topic

• presentation of tasks

TASKS

• 10- minute oral presentation

• product

• handout for other students

• consultations

SLOVENE

Slovene

writers, poets,

playwrights:

-Primoţ Trubar

-Adam Bohorič

-France Prešeren

-Drago Jančar

-Brina Svit, etc.

MATHEMATICS

Slovene mathematicians

and their contribution to

mathematics:

-Jurij Vega (logarithm)

-Josip Plemelj (Plemelj

formula)

-Franc Močnik and

-Blaţ Matek.

HISTORY

10 milestones in Slovene history:

-the Roman era

-the Counts of Celje

-the first Slovene book

-Yugoslavia

-the independence of Slovenia, etc.

GEOGRAPHY

natural disasters

in Slovenia:

-floods

-earthquakes

-landslides

-droughts

-hailstorms, etc.

PHYSICS

The contribution of

Slovene physicists

to physics: Stefan-

Boltzmann law

(Slovene physicists:

Joţe Štefan)

BIOLOGY

autochtonous

animals in

Slovenia

BIOLOGY autochthonous plants

in Slovenia

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CHEMISTRY Chemical industry in

Slovenia: Cinkarna Celje, Helios,Domţale, Krka, Lek, etc.

Fritz Pregl, chemist and physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analysishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microanalysis

THE ARTS

Slovene painters, architects and musicians: their works, short biographies

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PHYSICAL

EDUCATION Slovene athletes:

-Tina Maze

-Lucija Polavder

-Dejan Zavec

-Urška Ţolnir

-Petra Majdič, etc.

PSYCHOLOGY

the character of the

Slovenes

Slovenes in the Guiness

World Records book: Martin

Strel (the longest journey

swimming), Davo Karničar

(uninterrupted descent of

Mt. Everest on skis , Tomaţ

Humar (climber), Jolanda

Čeplak (athlete), Benka

Pulko (world-traveller on

motorbike), etc.

Thank you.