Interdisciplinary Science-Based Language Course of
Collaborative Learning - Do's and Don'ts

k 2015

Interdisciplinary Science-Based Language Course of Collaborative Learning - Do's and Don'ts

NĚMCOVÁ, Hana, Eva ČOUPKOVÁ and Robert HELÁN

Basic information

Original name

Interdisciplinary Science-Based Language Course of Collaborative Learning - Do's and Don'ts

Authors

NĚMCOVÁ, Hana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Eva ČOUPKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Robert HELÁN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Language Centres in Higher Education: Sharing Innovations, Research, Methodology, and Best Practices, Brno, Czech Republic, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50300 5.3 Education

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14640/15:00082268

Organization unit

Language Centre

Keywords in English

collaborative learning; content and language integrated learning; problem solving; interdisciplinarity

Abstract

V originále

Problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, communication, and promoting active learning are the main trends in today’s education. By employing the constructivist view of learning students are encouraged to articulate their ideas clearly as well as to collaborate on tasks effectively by sharing in group projects. The paper discusses an interdisciplinary science-based language course enhancing all these skills needed for the 21st century work and academic environment. The course has been designed within the Impact project at the Masaryk University Language Centre in cooperation of English language and science teachers. The main objective was to join students of six scientific disciplines taught at the Faculty of Science and address one problem from different perspectives reflecting the specific tools and methodologies of the particular fields. The primary focus of the paper is to discuss different teaching strategies used in the course with regard to their effectiveness – as doing experiments, or solving real-world problems. Also a list of do’ s and don’ts will be shown based on the experience from the pilot courses provided to the students of the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University in Brno.

Links

CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0233, interní kód MU

Name: Inovace, metodika a kvalita jazykového vzdělávání a odborného vzdělávání v cizích jazycích v terciární sféře v ČR (Acronym: IMPACT)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, 2.2 Higher education

Citovat

NĚMCOVÁ, Hana, Eva ČOUPKOVÁ and Robert HELÁN. Interdisciplinary Science-Based Language Course of Collaborative Learning - Do's and Don'ts. In Language Centres in Higher Education: Sharing Innovations, Research, Methodology, and Best Practices, Brno, Czech Republic. 2015.

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NĚMCOVÁ, Hana, Eva ČOUPKOVÁ and Robert HELÁN. Interdisciplinary Science-Based Language Course of Collaborative Learning - Do's and Don'ts. In \textit{Language Centres in Higher Education: Sharing Innovations, Research, Methodology, and Best Practices, Brno, Czech Republic}. 2015.

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