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Problem Solving in a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
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Problem Solving in a Foreign Language (Hardcover)
Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]
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Although Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a
popular teaching method, research on CLIL has nearly exclusively
focused on aspects of language learning. Besides that, we are still
lacking any cognitively well-grounded theory about the special
features of contexts in which the focus is on content learning, but
in which a foreign language is used as the medium of communicating
information. This book re-examines the basis for CLIL from a
cognitive perspective and investigates how the use of a foreign
language as a working language influences the processing of
content. It summarizes findings from cognitive psychology on
thinking, problem solving and conceptual processing, and integrates
them with models of language-specific mental activities such as
speech processing and text composition. This provides a
theoretically well-grounded basis for the understanding of the
special features of CLIL, and promotes a Cognitive Linguistic
perspective on CLIL pedagogy. The theoretical considerations form
the basis for an empirical study that offers the first insights
into what CLIL learners actually do when they solve content-focused
tasks while using an L2. Through spontaneous verbalization of
thought, detailed verbal protocols were elicited and analysed into
language and content focused cognitive processes. The analysis
shows that both language and conceptual thought interact closely
and that a focus on language in general has positive effects on the
processing of semantic content; the use of an L2 as working
language can enhance this effect. Additionally, the study offers a
thorough reflection and new perspectives on verbal protocols as
research tools, in particular in L2 contexts.
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