1. ENGLISH IMMERSION PROCESS
STUDIUM GENERALE
English Department
Faculty of Adab And Cultural Studies
UIN Sunan Kalijaga - Jogjakarta
January 7, 2012
2. CREATING A CONDUCIVE
LANGUAGE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
FOR BETTER LEARNING EXPERIENCE
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3. Map of the Presentation
Why learning a second language
Language immersion in brief
A lesson from language immersion
Creating a language environment
Maintaining the environment
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5. Why using English?
Why learning English?
❝One language sets you in
a corridor for life. Two languages
open every door along the
way.❞
‒Frank Smith
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7. Immersion - Lexical definition
Oxford dictionary
From Latin immers – „dipped into‟
IMMERSE (v - t)
1. Dip or submerge in a liquid.
2. Involve oneself deeply in
a particular activity.
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8. Immersion - Lexical definition
Oxford dictionary
IMMERSION (n - u)
1. The action of immersing someone
or something in a liquid.
2. Deep mental involvement.
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9. Immersion in language learning
Scott Thornbury
…one in which children, as a group,
are taught some or all of their school
subjects in a language that is not
their mother tongue.
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10. Language Immersion Programs
School subjects are taught in L2
Canada: English and French
Spain: Spanish and Basque
Nurturing bilingualism
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11. Indonesia? Indonesian and English?
SBI: International Standard School
Maths and Science in English
Immersion program?
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12. Immersion program = CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning
Subjects are taught in L2
Contexts for language learning
Seamless acquisition of L2
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13. Immersion = CLIL
L2
L2 Students L2
L2
School
Teacher
Subjects
L2 L2
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14. What can we learn from this?
L2
L2 Students L2
L2
School
Teacher
Subjects
L2 L2
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15. How to create
a conducive language learning
environment?
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16. CLIL has 4 Cs framework
Content
Cognition
Communication
Culture
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17. Creating a conducive
language learning environment
based on the CLIL‟s 4 Cs
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18. CONTENT
Topic to talk about
Current Issues
Hot News
Students/Campus Issues
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20. COMMUNICATION
In English
Understandable
Logical
Purposeful
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21. CULTURE
❝Language is the road map of a
culture.
It tells you where its people come from
and where they are going.❞
‒Rita Mae Brown
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22. CULTURE
Different Pond, Different Fish
Freedom of Speech
Open-Minded
Academic
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23. Critical Thinking
Student
Culture
Communication
Topic
A Conducive Language Learning Environment
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24. What forms of environment?
Classroom Discussions
English Conversation Club
Online Students Forums
Daily Conversation
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26. “Acquisition requires meaningful interaction
in the target language – natural communication –
in which speakers are concerned
not with the form of their utterances
but with the messages they are conveying
and understanding.”
Stephen Krashen
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27. Thank you
Questions and Comments
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January 2012
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