Bilingualism in Education: A Comprehensive View
Bilingualism
Bilingualism is the ability of a person to use two languages interchangeably and effectively in any communicative situation. In other words, bilingualism can mean the ability to communicate with equal proficiency in two languages. However, it can also refer to the ability to communicate in two languages, even if one language is mastered more than the other.
Additive Bilingualism and Linguistic Interdependence
Jim Cummins, along with other authors, contrasted two psycholinguistic currents:
Read MoreContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Benefits & Challenges
What is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)?
What is CLIL? Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) refers to situations where subjects, or parts of subjects, are taught through a foreign language with dual-focused aims: learning content and simultaneously learning a foreign language. This approach involves learning subjects such as history, geography, or others, through an additional language.
CLIL can be very successful in enhancing the learning of languages and other subjects,
Read MoreImagination, Empathy, and the Arts in Education
The Stimulation of Imaginative Powers
Imaginative powers are important to defend an open and pluralistic society. Citizens cannot relate well to the complex world around them with only factual knowledge and logic alone. Individuals need the ability to imagine what it might be like to be in the shoes of a person different from themselves and to understand the emotions, wishes, and desires that someone might have. The cultivation of sympathy forms part of democratic education, in both Western and non-
Read MoreEffective Business Meetings: Types, Phases & Best Practices
Types of Meetings
Meetings can be categorized based on their primary purpose:
- Information sharing
- Problem analysis
- Forecasting
- Decision-making
- Planning and control
Phases of a Meeting
A typical meeting progresses through these phases:
- Call, Greeting, and Initial Contact: Setting the tone and establishing rapport.
- Issue Approach: Clearly defining the meeting’s objectives and agenda.
- Discussion of Alternatives: Exploring various options and perspectives.
- Discussion and Closing: Summarizing key points, reaching
Philosophical Foundations of Curriculum Development
Philosophical Foundations of Curriculum
The educational objectives that learners are to achieve depend on the philosophy of education adhered to by the teachers. The learner’s philosophy also adds input into the curriculum. Pressures from the community also modify philosophical thinking pertaining to teaching-learning situations. Different schools of philosophy, like idealism, realism, existentialism, and experimentalism, all have unique objectives for learners to acquire.
Idealism and Curriculum
To
Read MoreThe Art of Eloquence: History, Forms, and Notable Speakers
By speaking we mean:
- The art of speaking eloquently.
- A literary genre that applies to all spoken communication processes, such as lectures, talks, exhibitions, storytelling, and so on.
In all such processes, orality generally applies, and its purpose is to persuade. This order is characteristic of it, distinguishing it from other disciplines: didactic teaching delights the poetic, and speech persuades. Persuading is to allow people to make decisions and act at will.
Forms of Speaking
Individual Speaking
When