Seed Project Briefing
2012/13
Extending English Learning (ExEL)
3 March 2012
NET Section, CDI, EDB
ExEL Overview
Current Context
 Objectives
 Benefits
 How to ExEL
 ExEL Forward
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Current Context
English
Content
Current Context
▪ NSS and HKDSE requirements
▪ MOI fine-tuning
Language Across the Curriculum (LaC)
Objectives of ExEL
▪ To integrate language learning with content learning
by developing cross-curricular units of work
▪ To raise teachers’ and students’ awareness of
language requirements of content subjects
▪ To raise all teachers’ awareness of shared
responsibility for LaC and to foster collaboration
▪ To increase students’ English language ability in
content subjects
Benefits
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NET Section support
School secondment
School-based PD
Curriculum products
Sustainability
Bridging to NSS and HKDSE
How to ExEL…
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
(iv)
(v)
Identify content subject
Set up ExEL team
Choose an implementation model
Map curricula
Select complementary units, language
features and functions
(vi) Develop materials
(vii) Implement lessons
(viii) Evaluate
How to ExEL…
(i) Identify content subject
• TWGH Lui Yun Choy Memorial
College
- 2010/11: Science (S1)
- 2011/12: Mathematics (S1)
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Queen’s College Old Boys’
Association Secondary School
- 2010/11: Economics (S3)
- 2011/12: Science (S1)
How to ExEL…
(ii) Set up ExEL team
How to ExEL…
Recall the current context
English
Content
How to ExEL…
(iii) Choose an implementation model
Blended Model
1.
English
Content
Parallel Model
2.
English
Content
Embedded Model
3.
English
Content
How to ExEL…
(iv) Map curricula
Example: Mapping Curricula
Suggested Modules and Units in the
English Curriculum (KS3)
Unit Contents in the Science Curriculum
(KS3)
Teenage Life
Leisure and Hobbies
Growing Up
Being Fashionable
A Healthy Body
Materials of the Modern World
Cells and Human Reproduction (Sex
Education)
Right and Responsibilities
At Home
In a Group (Class, Peer, School,
Neighbourhood)
Making Use of Electricity
Wonderful Things
Successful People and Amazing Deeds
Great Stories
Precious Things
Introducing Science
Space Travel
Nature and Environment
Protecting the Environment
Resources and Energy Conservation
Looking at Living Things
Energy
The Wonderful Solvent – Water
Living Things and Air
Sensing the Environment
How to ExEL…
(v) Select complementary units, language
features and functions
How to ExEL…
(vi) Develop materials
- analysing the textbook
- focusing on language patterns
- adapting the textbook
- stimulating discussion
- reading complementary material
- using activity cards
- improving exam questions
How to ExEL…
(vii) Implement lessons
(viii) Evaluate
Will you ExEL?
ExEL Forward
Peter Broe, POI (SNET)
3549 8337
pbroe@edb.gov.hk
Jimmy Leung POII (SNET)
3549 8315
jimmywcleung@edb.gov.hk
NET Section, CDI, EDB