Problem-Based Learning
What is the field that PBL approach is particularly dominant in?
Medicine
This discipline’s classrooms inspired ESP teachers to adopt the case-study approach.
Business
Across Europe, content-led language teaching is better known by this four-letter acronym.
CLIL
Academic literacies frames writing as socially situated within what kind of community?
discourse community
Barron (2002) distinguishes these two versions of PBL, depending on whether the teacher already knows the solution. What are these 2 versions called?
1) weak version of PBL and 2) strong version of PBL
Unlike PBL approach, where there is only one solution, in case study approach.....?
there may be a number of possible solutions
On Airey’s language–content continuum, CBI/CLIL sits between English-medium instruction and this language-centred course type.
EAP
Johns (1997) bases her “students-as-researchers” technique on this broader research tradition.
ethnographic approach
Which other approaches does PBL align with?
task-based approach and collaborative learning approach
Please explain the 2 types of case-study approach and the main difference between them.
1) open case study - participants need to find additional information in order to complete the task
2) closed case study -all the information is provided to the participants
What is the model where language specialists run a support course alongside a content course>
Adjunct model
What are the questions that Woodrow’s context-analysis grid starts with>
“What is the text about?” and “What is the purpose of the text?”
According to Woodrow (2018), PBL may “lose focus” on these two linguistic elements.
language and vocabulary
What are the two higher-order skills beyond language that case-study approach aims to develop in learners?
1) communication skills and 2) decision-making skills
Name the three types of collaboration, reflecting the level of contact between the ESP practitioner and the subject specialist
1) cooperation, 2) collaboration and 3) team-teaching
Woodrow’s context-analysis grid asks about “tone” and also poses this question about author–audience dynamics
What is the relationship between the author and the audience?
What is the biggest challenge of PBL approach?
Collaboration with subject specialists is the biggest challenge when applying this method in EAP.
In the three-phase procedure, learners hunt for extra data during this middle phase.
Analysis phase
Crandall & Kaufman (2002) note that content lecturers fear this effect when adapting material for lower-proficiency students.
Watering down the content (this means: simplifying concepts, technical detail, or lowering the cognitive demands—so that students with weaker English can cope)
Murray (2016) argues that to enact an academic-literacies ethos, EAP teaching should move out of central language centres and into these university units.
disciplinary (academic) departments