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This chapter reports a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programme, which has been implemented in English classes in Wako Kokusai High School, Japan, since 2011, describing the unit planning and activities in the classroom. In the programme, a CLIL approach is integrated with collaborative learning, especially the method of the knowledge constructive jigsaw (KCJ), which was developed under the supervision of the Consortium for Renovating Education of the Future (CoREF) at the University of Tokyo, Saitama Prefectural Board of Education and the CLIL researchers at Sophia University, Tokyo. The aim of CLIL lessons with collaborative learning is that learners can achieve the competency to utilize the content knowledge in their daily lives. Learners are expected to express their own ideas in a creative manner based on the knowledge they learnt rather than just explain the subject knowledge they remember. With carefully planned scaffolding, this pedagogical approach could benefit students with different proficiency levels. The method is also being introduced to schools in another Southeast Asian country, thus expanding the professional network with teachers abroad.
Translated by Keiko Tsuchiya
This chapter is based on two previously published articles written in Japanese by Masaru Yamazaki (Yamazaki, 2017, 2018). Keiko Tsuchiya (KT) translated these Japanese articles to English, adding the information provided through her observation of a CLIL class at Wako Kokusai High School and an interview with Masaru Yamazaki in 2018. KT also added explanations of concepts discussed in this chapter and references where necessary
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The lesson plan and materials presented in this chapter were produced by Saitama Prefectural Board of Education, supervised by CoREF, The University of Tokyo, and drafted by Masaru Yamazaki at Saitama Prefectural Wako Kokusai High School. They are available on the websites of Google Education for Japan: https://www.google.com/earth/education/japan/.
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Oral Introduction is a teacher’s brief introduction of a content topic in simple English, which is based on Palmer’s Oral Method and has been introduced to Japanese secondary classrooms along with the approach of Communicative Language Teaching since the late 1990s (Nishino, 2011).
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These lessons reported in this chapter were conducted as a part of the project, Learning for Paving the Way to the Future (in Japanese, 未来を拓く「学び」プロジェクト), led by Saitama Prefectural Board of Education and the Consortium for Renovating Education of the Future (CoREF) at the University of Tokyo in collaboration with Google Education.
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1.1 Appendix 1: Lesson Plan: Can Mt. Fuji Survive Tourists?
1.2 Appendix 2: Worksheet (1) for the Knowledge Constructive Jigsaw
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Yamazaki, M. (2019). Collaborative Learning Through CLIL in Secondary English Classrooms in Japan. In: Tsuchiya, K., Pérez Murillo, M.D. (eds) Content and Language Integrated Learning in Spanish and Japanese Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27443-6_7
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