If the teacher just only provides students with grammar and vocabulary related to the topic of the lessons without paying attention to the interdisciplinary integration between the subje
Trang 1S GIÁO D C VÀ ĐÀO T O THANH HOÁ Ở Ụ Ạ
TRƯỜNG THPT YÊN Đ NH 3Ị
SÁNG KI N KINH NGHI MẾ Ệ
APPLYING INTERDISCIPLINARY INTEGRATION TEACHING METHOD TO TEACHING ENGLISH 12
Người th c hi n : Nguy n Văn Longự ệ ễ
Ch c v : T Trứ ụ ổ ưởng Chuyên MônSKKN thu c môn : Ti ng Anhộ ế
Trang 3I. REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE THEME :
1. Basis of theory :
It is undeniable that English has become the most popular language in the world and it is also a popular foreign language in Vietnam as well. At present, most companies when recruiting all require English proficiency from the applicants Therefore, mastering a fluency in English will be of a great advantage for applying for a job as well as capturing many start up opportunities from today's global integration. To keep pace with this common process requires each student while sitting on high school chairs to attain a certain level of English to communicate at least at a simple level. Over the past years, the Ministry of Education and Training has directed the compilation of many textbooks in the communication approach for students at secondary level. However, not only do new curriculum and textbooks have higher difficulties, many new or interesting topics such as Cultural Diversity, Nature in Danger, Water sports, International Organization, Life in the future…, but they also have
a lot of knowledge related to other cultural subjects such as History, Geography, Civic Education, Physics, Physical Education and Literature If the teacher just only provides students with grammar and vocabulary related to the topic of the lessons without paying attention to the interdisciplinary integration between the subjects, the lectures will always become considerably boring and hard to absorb , students may always feel scared, bored and tired after foreign language lessons[4]. From the above reasons, as an English teacher with over ten years’ experience, I have continuously been wondering and researching for the techniques to better the quality of teaching English and I am always anxious to find which method can make my students feel inspired and have fun with English lessons so as to improve the quality as well as the effectiveness of my English lectures Through my years’ time of teaching English 12 as well as exchanging, referring to related materials and drawing experiences after each
to use their knowledge of other subjects to broaden their vocabulary and
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As can be seen, English is a rather difficult subject to students particularly the rural ones. In the high school English curriculum, there have existed a large number of inter unitary lessons with different topics that students have studied
in some other subjects such as Geography, History, Physical Education,
concerned about giving explanations to vocabulary, instructions to grammatical structures for students and asking them to do the tasks in the textbook without focussing on the use of integrated methods to teach. Hence, this results in low teaching quality and few students with flying colours To make it worse, students increasingly lose their interests in learning English and fail to upgrade their communicative abilities
By talking and exchanging with colleagues as well as surveying 160 students in classes 12C1, 12C2, 12C6, 12C7 of Yen Đinh 3 High school, I noticed that the status of teaching and learning foreign languages is as follows :
In terms of teachers’ side, most of the teachers of the school are highly qualified, enthusiastic in work, eager to learn However, some of them are timid in innovated teaching methods, do not dare to change or redesign textbooks, have not found many different methods to refresh the solution. In particular, a small number of teachers also believe that foreign language teaching is only teaching vocabulary, structures and guiding students how to do the tasks and exercises so that students will achieve high results in the exams.
three years of high school program education. They are no wonder strange with the forms of examination and evaluation that the teachers set. Secondy, they have deep knowledge of natural resources, environment, society, and political economy issues both domestically and internationally through such subjects as Geography, History…[6,7,8,9,10] Thirdly, in subjects such as Literature, History, Geography they have learned about many subjects integrated in the lessons. As a result, when it is necessary to combine knowledge of a particular subject into Foreign Language to solve a problem in the unit, they will not feel surprised.
According to the survey at the beginning of the year, 65% of students said that English is a difficult subject, to study this subject well requires students to learn not only vocabulary and structures but they have also to master other subjects to integrate the knowledge into English.
Interdisciplinary Integration to teaching will help students to develop their brainstorming, logical thinking and creativity in learning and practical application. So for myself, in the past few years especially this school year 2017
Trang 5knowledge of other subjects such as History, Geography, Physical Education… to learn English more effectively.
II. AIMS OF THE RESEARCH :
Studying the theoretical issues of integrated teaching and teaching practice at secondary schools which will serve as a scientific basis for the application of integrative teaching in foreign language to students in Yen Đinh 3 High school This teaching method has not only enabled me to lull most of students to take part in English lessons actively, enthusiatically and creatively but also creat an exciting atmosphere, raise students’s love for English and other subjects[2]. This experience initiative has been applied in quite a long time of
my teaching English 12 and I have got considerably hopeful result. Therefore, I decisively exchange my experience initiative with my collagues
Multidisciplinary Integration
Interdisciplinary Integration.
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Multi disciplinary approaches focus primarily on subjects Related subjects share a content orientation and teaching technique, but each has its own curriculum. Multidisciplinary integration is conducted in a way that organizes standards from the subject area centering a topic, a theme, a project, creating conditions for learners to synthesize the knowledge of the subjects concerned. There are many different ways to create an integral program of multidisciplinary, and they differ in the degree of integration effort
1.2. Interdisciplinary Integration :
According to the interdisciplinary integration approach, teachers organizes the learning activities around common learning content : topics, subjects, concepts and interdisciplinary skills / subjects They connect the cabinet in general academic content included in the courses to emphasize the concepts and interdisciplinary skills. Subjects can be identified, but they give less importance than the multidisciplinary approach Interdisciplinary integration is also understood as an option in which many subjects related learning is bundled into a new course with a system certain topics go through various grades. For example, Geography, History, Biology, Society, Civic Education, Chemistry, Physics, are integrated into " Social and Environmental Studies " in the elementary education program in England, Australia, Singapore and Thailand
1.3 Transdisciplinary Integration :
With an integrated, crosscurricular approach, teachers organize curriculum that addresses students issues and concerns. Students develop living skills as they apply subjects and interdisciplinary skills to the real contexts of life. The two paths lead to the integration of 6 cross disciplines : project based learning and negotiating the curriculum From the above, we see integrated thinking rooted in the basis of science and life. First of all, life is a great encyclopedia, a great collection of knowledge, experience and method. Every situation in life is always an integrated situation. It is not possible to solve
a problem and task of theory and practice without using the combined and coordinated multi disciplinary skills of many different fields. Integrating in the school will help students learn smartly and creatively apply knowledge, skills and methods of a comprehensive, harmonious and sensible amount of knowledge in solving various and new situations in modern life.
Trang 7the theme of Unit 10 Endangered species is related to Biology, the topics of Unit 12 Water sports and Unit 13 The 22 nd SEA Games have the same
From the actual teaching, I have drawn some experience in applying interdisciplinary integration in teaching subjects in high school as follows
The integrated teaching lesson plan is not an outline of the ways to teach for teachers to lecture the classes, transmission imposed for students but a design of activities, steps to organize for students to perform during class time to acquire knowledge, develop capacity and personality for the purpose of educational purposes of the subjects
A good design should consist of two components. First, the system of the teaching situation is set out from the objective content of the unit, appropriate with the nature and level of acceptance of the students. Second, the system of activities animated, manipulated correspond to the above situations by the teachers’ logical arrangement so as to guide students step by step access and master the lessons in a positive and creative way
The integrated instructional design lesson must be embedded in the content of knowledge of related subjects
It is essential that teachers should ensure the specific content and structure but not squeeze into a rigid patterns that creates open horizons for creative exploration in the student's alternatives on the basis of ensuring the purposes and general requirements of the school
Integrated teaching should focus on designing scenarios integration and corresponding activities are complex ones for students to use coordinate the knowledge and skills of the different disciplines into the process available situations in which students not only gain knowledge and skills of each subject separately but also master the knowledge and develop the integrated capacity of the related subjects
3.2. The novelty of the solution versus the solution that has been
implemented :
Bringing concrete integrated activities to each of the following types.
The following integrated curriculum lessons are taught in 12 th grade in Yen Đinh 3 high school in the school years 2016 – 2017 and 2017 – 2018.
C APPLYING THE RESEARCH TO TEACHING
Trang 8UNIT 12. WATER SPORTLesson 1: Reading
I. Warm up :
* Questions :
1. Look at these pictures and tell me what type of sport it is.
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Football : 1, 4, 6
Water polo : 2, 3, 5 Applying Physical Education
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knowledge to watch video clip and analyze the scences to give the Vietnamese names for the words.
II. Before you read :Watch video clip and answer somequestions
* Vocabularies :
pool (n) : b ể
Trang 10c. to punish a team or player who breaks the rules
d. a situation in a game when two teams have the same scores
e. someone who tries to defeat another person in acompetition
+ Suggested answers :
1 e 2 c 3 a 4 b 5 d
Read the passage and find information to do
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5. The player is ejected after commiting five personal fouls.
IV. After you read :
Work in groups. Complete the table of comparision
There are 2 parts. Each part lasts 45 minutes
There are 4 parts. Each part lasts from 5 to 8 minutes
Be played
by foots Be played by hands.
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Write a paragraph to compare football andwater polo
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Concluding sentence : (optional) summarises the main points or draws arelevant conclusion.
III. While and after you write :
Task 1 :
Listen carefully
Trang 142. They have to do more housework when they have more children.
3. Married men have to do less housework when they have more children.
4. Married men and women without children spend 20 and 30 hours on their housework per week respectively.
5. It takes men and women with one or two children 15 and 50 hours respectively to do their housework every week.
6. They are 10 and 55.
7. Married men should spend more time sharing the housework with their wives.
Task 2 :
Whole class
Listen carefully
Work in groups to write a report describing the information shown in the column chart in Task 1.
The column chart illustrates the average hours of housework per week done by married women in comparison with married men…
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* Expected answers :
1. It is ASEAN.
2. It stands for The Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
3. Yes, we do.
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* Activity 3 :
Handout : Use your Geography and History knowledge to complete this table about
ASEAN (Ss may write in English or Vietnamese )
8th August 1967198419951997199819992020III. While you read :
Trang 18 Work in groups to decide if the statements are true (T) or false (F)
* Keys :
1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. F 6. F
* Task 3 : Work in groups, read the passage carefully to answer the questions.
* Suggested answers :
1. The five original member countries, namely, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore and Thailand.
2. The two main goals of the Association are to accelerate the economic growth, social
progress and cultural development; and to promote peace and stability through respect for justice and the rule of law in the relationship among countries in the region.
3. It was about US$ 1405 billion.
4. It was adopted in 1998.
5. It includes trade, investment, industry, services, finance, agriculture, rural development, forestry, energy, transportation and communication, science and technology, small and medium enterprises, and tourism.
IV. After you read :
Look at these flags and name countries and their capital
D RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH
To check students’ learning outcomes by topics, after each lecture I usually give students a short " Test " on the content of the lessons they have just learned in class. To test results, evaluate the most accurately, I carried out