CLIL as an advantageous Way to introduce your Students into Electrical Engineering and IT Subjects
Linz 2017
CLIL in theoretical and practical Subjects DI Gustav Spring, HTL Waidhofen/Ybbs Agenda
• Why did we choose the topic „advantageous way …“, how does my way look like? • For a CLIL teacher language matters – so what is important for us? Do we have other priorities than English teachers? • In which subjects is CLIL used? Are there any differences, advantages, priorities? What are my subjects? • LBNL examples for methods, activities I use • References – interesting web pages, tools Intro – my personal CLIL Experience … why „advantageous way“? • Makes sense for me, because English will be needed in the profession of our graduates; many technical information is only available in English (e.g. datasheet of components); concern language in companies, global market, … • Many additional resources (www, videos, books) in English • LBNL lessons are more interesting, challenging, more variety, more „colorful“ for teacher and learners Intro – my personal CLIL Experience … my approach, how I practice it • Siemens: 1990s concern language English • CLIL and Language courses (in Vienna; Exceter, Cambridge, Malta, Dublin, Edinburgh) to widen my horizon, improve pedagogical skills, to make teaching more interesting, experimenting with different ways to teach: • How to? - which CLIL activitiy – depends on topic: - sometimes „games“ , but no repetition of same activity in same class but always word map of key vocabulary; use videos, the easist way to have a native speaker in the classroom (e.g. Salman Khan - Khanacademy) - from time to time try out something new Language used in a CLIL lesson (www….)
General language
General Classroom CLIL academic language lesson language
Domain specific language Language used in a CLIL lesson … for me
General Academic Language General Language
Class- CLIL lesson room Language Content specific Language Language – what‘s important for CLIL? Speaking vs Writing
For all skills: Help to build up Accurate grammar is pool with Words & Grammar important for writing key vocabulary Phrases (technical documents, (final exams) like laboratory reports - help students with templates, examples, key structures for sentences) Pronunciation Assist student with Is vital for Listening written text (e.g. Powerpoint) and Speaking and video material (native as well as non-native speakers) English in a CLIL Lesson – in an English Lesson • Technical English – KISS (understand each other – it is often not a disadvantage for students not to be a native speaker, but Level B2 and not beyond): Interesting document (e.g. how to describe technical procedures - laboratory): Simplified Technical English of AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) http://www.asd-ste100.org/ • Other aims than in English Lesson or for FCE Cambridge First Certificate or Advanced English, Proficiency in English CLIL in theoretical, practical and other subjects with a wide variety of teachers and different groups sizes of students different benefits for students
Theoretical Technical Subjects: Practical Subjects: e.g. Automation Engineering e.g. Laboratory, CPE – Computer Aided Project Engineers (DI) Engineering
Engineers (DI) Other Subjects: e.g. Mathematics, Geography, Workshops History, Religion, … Engineers (Ing.) Subject Teachers (Mag.) Foreman English & Subject Teachers (Mag.) CLIL in my subjects: AUT, Lab, CPE
• AUT: automation engineering (theoretical subject) new content with various CLIL methods/activities, word maps, videos, … main aim: create key vocabulary, phrases final exams • Lab: Laboratory – practical measurements CPE: Computer Aided Project Development main advantage: smaller groups, makes sense for profession Lab: Communication during measurements, Write Lab Report (technical documentation) CPE: Requirement Specification, Project Documentation, Presentation Lab, CPE: Usage of Development Tools (done in English) Lab Exercise 1 „Transfer Characteristic of a 7400 NAND Gate“ (Manual Measurement) • Repetition – Truth Table of NAND Gate • What is the Transfer Characteristic? Ua(Ue), Vo/Vi • How could the Transfer Characteristic look like? • How can it be measured? Pair work: Draw a measurement circuit with a supply voltage of 5 Volts (constant), a potentiometer to create the variable input voltage and 2 digital multimeters. Language Support
• Can be given in different ways: - frontal - fill in the gap - just watch a video and write down unknown words, to ask afterwards (maybe a second watching of the video could be required) Frontal or working together or homework (lab report): Overview - Words Key vocabulary – Word Map Gap filling • Write these words in the correct places (1..11): Block diagram, slider, Data Acquisition, data types, USB, sinks, Front Panel, int (blue), digital in- and outputs, case, indicators, Virtual Instrument Lab – Key Words Digital Logic Lab Exercise 2 „Transfer Characteristic of a 7400 NAND Gate“ (Automated Meas.) • Labview: Introduction/1st steps using labview programming environment in English variant 1: on Beamer English Version, on student PC German Version variant 2: just explaining what to do without beamer – feedback: you see, whether the students understood you • Lab Exercise 3: Automated Measurement using Serial Interface of Measurement equipment in lab: CLIL-Labview-Serial.pptx
• Examples: Laboratory Reports of Students Support: Preview of laboratory exercise: ppt, template, examples, word maps Example VI – Transfer Characteristic Front Panel Example VI – Transfer Characteristic Block Diagram CPE – Project Development
• What do we do in CPE/CLIL: Documentation, Presentation, Communication during Development, Instructions, Discussions, Project Plan • Project Development: Stdsem (German – English): http://qm.datatrak.ws/stdsem_e/home.htm including all templates in English • Siemens Examples: e.g. how to write abstracts • Examples: Code Converter, Synchronous Sequential Logic, Analog Controller in folder CPE Stdsem (old but good ) To avoid terms like „Book of Duty“ , writing perfect requirement specifications, … Sometimes we have simple vocabulary problems („|G(1i.ω)|“ working with Mathcad) • | … Betragszeichen: Magnitude sign, absolute value sign, vertical bar, vertical line, pipe (in another context) AUT – Automation Engineering
• Like any other technical subject, perhaps a little bit more maths (e.g. Laplace Transformation, frequency and step response): Vocabulary on Equations_B.pptx, … Khanacademy: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlUG4OKN1IY • various CLIL-activities, but also frontal lectures using power point, including students by asking questions - CCQs and ICQs (Concept Checking and Instruction Checking) • Using Videos explaining how to calculte the gain of an OAC (www.htl.at) or Fuzzy Logic (tasks; catch important key vocabulary, give definition; fuzzification, inference, defuzzification; crisp values, DOM …; who is the father of fuzzy logic?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Q5X0nTmrA • Company information often in English as well as in German: Endress&Hauser Sensor principles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f949gpKdCI4 Activities, Methods used
• Analyzing Content and learn Language: bring a structure in the (key) vocabulary with a word map (Tools: Freemind, yed, …) • Categorizing, e.g. words to do with sequence, e.g. needed for Synchronous Digital Circuits, State diagrams State Diagram Words describing Sequence, describing State Diagrams • 02_SynchronousSequentialCircuits.pptx 1) just then 1) after, afterwards 2) lastly 2) as, as soon as 3) later, later on 3) at first 11) earlier 4) meanwhile 4) at that point 12) eventually 5) next 11) shortly after 5) at the beginning 13) finally 6) once 12) simultaneously 13) soon 6) at the end 14) firstly 7) originally 14) straight away 7) at the same time 15) formerly 8) previously 15) subsequently 8) at the start 16) immediately 9) prior to 16) then 9) beforehand 17) in advance 10) secondly 17) to begin with 10) before long 18) in the beginning 19) in the meantime 18) towards the end 20) in the end 19) upon 20) when 21) while Key vocabulary – Word Map (Yed) • Example for Operational Amplifier Circuits: OAC_v2.pptx – my example of www.htl.at
Put the missing word in the right position Complete Mind map Solution: 1-I, 2-O or M, 3-M or O, 4-D, 5-N, 6-C, 7-P, 8- J, 9-H, 10-F, 11-E, 12-A, 13-K, 14/15/16-G/B/L Language support - Doing Presentations in a better way • Presentations are often done in CLIL-Lessons • How to do them in a better way? • What are the tasks of the CLIL teacher? • Support not only in technical matters but also in the language, e.g. talking about state diagrams, words to do with sequence is of interest talk about it, do an activity before students have to do their presentations; of course talk about key vocabulary, components, … • Feedback (not only, but also errors), Questions of class and teacher to check understanding Activities in CLIL-Lessons
• Procedures, Putting Sentences in Right Order • Puzzles (Basic Elements CE), Crossword • Dictogloss (develop written English, delivering content) • Matching Exercise • … • (Running dictation) … Inspirations, Ideas: - Teaching other subjects through English - Putting CLIL into Practice • NOTE: With some exceptions (word map – analyzing content and learn words), not repeat the same activities too often Sequences, Procedures – put sentences into right order • Alternative way to more or less frontal way of writing down the „recipe“ on the blackboard for creating and dimensioning a certain analog controller to realize a certain transfer function. Could be also done working together with students (was my way shown in next slide) after doing an example – asking the students „what is the next step?“) • Sorting Activity: Paper stripes or Sort_Text.exe Sorry for my handwriting Sort_Text.exe: Put sentences into right order Puzzle - Control Engineering: Basic Elements – P, I, D, PI, … PT1, … TF, ODE, Bode and Nyquist Plot, … Puzzle
• Based on set of pictures for TF, Equations in Laplace- domain, Bode Plot, Nyquist Plot, OAC
for each element (here shown PDT1) Various CLIL-activities
• E.g. Dictogloss for something important to remember longer than usual after the lesson Finding Materials Online
• www.youtube.com - companies, for AUT e.g. The electromagnetic flow measuring principle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f949gpKdCI4 - for Lab e.g. Labview (NI and others) EEVBlog, e.g. Bode Plot (laboratory): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMH2hGvqhlE • various pages of companies, e.g. www.ni.com • https://www.khanacademy.org/ • http://www.engineeringvideos.org/ • https://www.wisc-online.com/ Tools
• Yed Graph Editor: https://www.yworks.com/products/yed • Mindmap: freemind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.p hp/Main_Page • http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/ • http://www.hotpotatoes.de/ • Eigenes Programm zum Sortieren (Satz, Text) Vocabulary, Translation
• www.multidict.net (mehrere Übersetzungstool in einer Plattform, linguee – examples - context) • DKE-Online Wörterbuch: https://www2.dke.de/de/Online-Service/DKE- IEV/Seiten/IEV-Woerterbuch.aspx
• http://visuwords.com/spring • http://www.wordle.net/ Books – Language, CLIL • Hilary Glasman-Deal, Science Research Writing For Non-Native Speakers of English, Imperial College Press • Raymond Murphy, English Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press • Keith Kelly, Science, Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series • Phil Ball, K. Kelly, J. Clegg, Putting CLIL into Practice, Oxford University Press • Sheelagh Deller, Christine Price, Teaching Other Subjects Through English, Oxford University Press • Liz Dale, Rosie Tanner, CLIL Activities, Cambridge University Press Books – Engineering
• TODO – please send me an e-mail if you are interested in my list of books about automation engineering, electronics. Thank you for your attention and CLIL your classes!
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