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SUMMARY:The relationship between higher order thinking skills and academic
  language proficiency in English: A case study of bilingual learners in Ro
 mania - Roxana Herescu\, Faculty of Education\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20130226T130000Z
DTEND:20130226T140000Z
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CONTACT:Ting Ding
DESCRIPTION:My empirical mixed-method project seeks to investigate the rel
 ationship between higher order thinking skills and academic language profi
 ciency in English as reflected in bilingual (CLIL) learners' oral output.\
 n\nThis talk will start with a brief introduction of my project providing 
 some details about the research questions\, methods and analysis procedure
 . I will then discuss some preliminary findings on the interplay of thinki
 ng skills and language in the output of eleven pupils following a bilingua
 l programme in Romania. Specifically\, this research seeks to explore whic
 h type of thinking skills (i.e. lower or higher order) the CLIL approach e
 ngenders in the learners\, as different from the EFL and to find patterns 
 in learners' use of higher-order thinking\nskills when prompted to do so d
 uring the purpose-built tasks.
LOCATION:Room 2S8\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge
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