Posted by Henry2 on Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at 10:47am.
I have to leave, but I'll return to these soon.
1) Linguistic objectives:
- helping the pupils overcome their inhibitions ( I wouldn’t include this point. What do you think??) If you include this, it'd need to be phrased differently. Did you read any of Krashen's writings? This is what he calls "lowering the filter." That is, as humans who will not deliberately embarrass ourselves, we will use a "filter" when we're learning a new language or are even in intermediate stages -- that is, we protect our egos by not allowing ourselves to say anything that we don't already know to be correct. So, yes, it's important to give English-learners a safe atmosphere in which to speak up or write, and eventually overcome that self-filter.
http://www.sdkrashen.com/SL_Acquisition_and_Learning/index.html in Chapter 2, pages 21 - 24
These (below) sound like objectives for the teachers, not for the students. They are things the teachers will do. Is this what you intend?
- providing students with the necessary linguistic structures of English to operate in English in a European scientific work/study environment
- providing students with the lexical and skills syllabus of the terms used to describe aquatic biodiversity
- teaching students the vocabulary and providing the situations in which to explain, interpret, exchange, and finally compare the results of their experiments in both written and oral English
- providing lessons to upgrade the students’ reading skills needed to interpret and analyze data derived from different sources, such as webpages, books, scholarly journals, and large databases
And these are objectives for the students to achieve?
2) Personal/social objectives:
- developing required personal skills while working actively both individually and in groups: the planning, organization and evaluation of the activities, thus increasing their job opportunities in a globalized world
- cooperating with their partners on topics of the project and of mutual interest
- becoming aware of and open to Europe's cultural, social, and economic diversity in order to strengthen the feeling of fellowship and unity
- understanding the importance of being aware of and informed about local biodiversity issues in terms of sustainability
- learning how to monitor and protect endangered aquatic species, as well as their habitats
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