L2 Interaction in Heterogeneous Learner Groups during Content and Language Integrated Learning: The Experience of (removed for peer-review) and beyond

Julia Edeleva, Martin Neef, Jiaming Liu, Martin Scheidt


Abstract
Сontent and language integrated learning is considered a powerful tool to promote inclusion in educational settings of learners for whom the language of instruction is their additional language. Language-related difficulties of those learners have been claimed detrimental for attaining personal educational goals. Academic language places increased cognitive demands on the learning process in general due to 1) its internal complexity; 2) L2 speakers’ lower proficiency; 3) their disadvantage in terms of real-time processing. Facilitators are, therefore, encouraged to integrate interactional CLIL-elements (e.g., scaffolding) during content instruction that provide the necessary pedagogical support for better understanding of disciplinary concepts and their interrelation. In the current contribution, we present the concept and first results of Rail.lexis, a collaborative project of the Department of German Studies and the Department of Railway Engineering at TU Brauschweig. We present and discuss several conversational arrangements (e.g., word guessing games, a differential task matrix) that were designed to engage the learners of heterogeneous linguistic backgrounds in meaningful interactions in subject-specific classes. Subject-specific tasks are gradient regarding their cognitive complexity and the background knowledge required to solve them. Therefore, the linguistic repertoire required to negotiate different task types is also differential to ensure the participation of linguistically diverse students in language-enhanced classroom interactions.
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2024.clasp-1.6
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Proceedings of the 2024 CLASP Conference on Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning
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October
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2024
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Gothenburg, Sweden
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Amy Qiu, Bill Noble, David Pagmar, Vladislav Maraev, Nikolai Ilinykh
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CLASP
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SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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32–38
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Julia Edeleva, Martin Neef, Jiaming Liu, and Martin Scheidt. 2024. L2 Interaction in Heterogeneous Learner Groups during Content and Language Integrated Learning: The Experience of (removed for peer-review) and beyond. In Proceedings of the 2024 CLASP Conference on Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning, pages 32–38, Gothenburg, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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L2 Interaction in Heterogeneous Learner Groups during Content and Language Integrated Learning: The Experience of (removed for peer-review) and beyond (Edeleva et al., CLASP 2024)
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