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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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EDUCATION 3674
INTEGRATING ESL LEARNERS IN DIFFERENT SCHOOL SUBJECTS:
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SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
(D1.00)
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(Cat. #33649)
Regular Summer Semester, 1993
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Instructor: Prof. Gloria Sampson
(May 3—July 30)
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Office: ?
MPX 8671
Wednesday, 1:00-4:50 p.m.
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Phone: ?
291-4303
Location: MPX 7500 Back
PREREQUISITES:
60 hours of credit.
AIMS
This course is for future teachers who have no training or interest in linguistics or language
teaching methods, but who expect to have some learners of English as a second language (ESL)
in their science and mathematics classes, K-12 and adult levels. It provides teachers with (a) an
overview of the language patterns used in science and math textbooks, in problem-solving, and
in cooperative group work in math and science; (b) a picture of how these language patterns are
connected to mathematical and science thinking; and (c) a set of techniques for classroom use
that help ESL students acquire both the appropriate language patterns for scientific thinking and
the thinking processes themselves.
TOPICS
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The sentence patterns of the math and science registers of English versus the sentence
patterns in the humanities registers of English. How these different language registers
were constructed and how they reflect different ways of thinking about the world.
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The sentence patterns and thought processes used in cooperative small group math/science
problem-solving.
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Creating classroom tasks that have ESL learners practicing both language patterns and
math/science thinking processes along with their English-speaking peers.
ASSIGNMENTS
1. Locating potential language problems in school textbooks for math and science.
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Comparing how a native speaker of English and an ESL learner talk through and think
through a problem-solving task.
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Creating a progress file for ESL learners to promote cognitive self-instruction in the
classroom and outside it.
Students in this course create assignments for whatever grade/age level they wish.
REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS
Patricia Osborn. (1989).
How Grammar Works (A
Self-Teaching
Guide).
Toronto: John
Wiley & Sons, Inc. [A book for people who dislike grammar.]
Rosalind Driver, Edith Guesne and Andrée Tiberghien. (1989).
Children's Ideas in Science.
Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press.
Michael Cornelius and Alan Parr. (1991).
What's Your Game?
Cambridge University
Press.
Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics.
(1991). Reston, VA: NCTM.
