EDB Professional Development Workshop Learning English Through Social Issues

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EDB Professional Development Workshop Learning
English Through Social Issues

• English Language Centre (ELC)
• City University of Hong Kong

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Essentials of LESI

• 1 of 8 Elective Modules in New Secondary School
  (NSS) English Language Curriculum
• S5 level
• Suggested time 33.3 hours
• (approximately 50 forty-minute periods)

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Learning Outcomes

• To develop learners ability to use English to
• understand a variety of written and spoken texts
• understand how a SI may be defined, analysed,
  perceived, researched and presented
• analyse texts on SIs in order to understand their
  structural and linguistic features
• identify and define problems from gathered
  information, consider related factors, draw
  conclusions, explore options and solutions, and
  justify views or arguments
• develop and refine ideas
• plan, organise and carry out presentations on
  particular issues

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Relationship with Compulsory Component

• Complementing modules in the compulsory part
• Cultures of the World
• Travelling
• Customs, Clothing Food
• Nature Environment
• Environmental Protection
• Resource and Energy Conservation
• The Individual Society
• Crime
• Human Rights
• Communicating
• The Media and Publications
• International Networks
• Technology
• Changes brought about by Technology
• A holistic approach is suggested when planning
  the English Curriculum to ensure recycling of
  language skills and general knowledge.

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Content Part 1

• Suggested time 22 periods
• To present the idea of SIs how they relate to
  society the world
• Learners practise reading, identifying, and
  writing definitions, causes and effects, and
  solutions to SIs
• For more advanced learners there is an extra unit
  on examining an issue from various perspectives

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Content Part 2

• Suggested time 16 periods
• To introduce the concepts of researching
  investigating a SI
• Learners practise researching a SI beyond the
  typical means like websites and the library (i.e.
  conduct observations, interviews, surveys)
• Learners practise evaluating information from
  different sources and acknowledging these sources

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Content Part 3

• Suggested time 12 periods
• To provide a relevant context (i.e. Social
  Awareness Week) for display of learners
  investigation results and opinions
• Learners present information opinions on SI in
  2 pieces of work (1 in written,
• 1 in spoken form)

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Assessment

• Students should be encouraged to keep a folder
  for this module which will serve as a record of
  their learning. The folder may comprise all the
  assignments, both oral and written, the students
  have done for the module. Students are also
  encouraged to reflect on and monitor their own
  learning process, and teachers will provide them
  with feedback and assistance where necessary.
• EDBs suggested Scheme of Work for LESI

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Assessment Continued

• A range of written and oral activities can be
  used for assessing student performance
• For example quizzes, paragraph writing exercises
  on definitions / causes / effects / solutions,
  questionnaires, argumentative essays, letters to
  the editor, editorials, pamphlets, fact sheets,
  group discussions, debates, speeches, interviews,
  role-plays, skits
• In addition to being done at the end of the
  module, assessment can be done throughout the
  course

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Assessment (HKDSE)
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HKDSE English Language Exam

• Available online at
• www.hkeaa.edu.hk/en/HKDSE/
• Subject_Information/eng_lang/
• Resource Packs currently being printed. Each
  module will have 3 copies printed for your
  school.