Integrating Language and Content Teaching through Collaborative Tasks.

Swain, Merrill

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ERIC Number: EJ635193

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 2001

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Integrating Language and Content Teaching through Collaborative Tasks.

Swain, Merrill

Canadian Modern Language Review, v58 n1 p44-63 Sep 2001

Offers immersion classroom data focusing on the use of collaborative tasks related to the content to be learned that draw learners attention to formal properties of French. Such tasks provide both oral practice and lead to more accurate language use. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Cooperation, Foreign Countries, French, Immersion Programs, Metalinguistics, Oral Language, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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