Problem Solving in a Foreign Language : a Study in Content and Language Integrated Learning.

This book fills some of the major theoretical gaps for the popular teaching form of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). It re-examines the basis for CLIL from a cognitive perspective and gives an overview of the foundations of problem solving, thinking and language processing. Besides t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heine, Lena
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2010.
Series:Studies on language acquisition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter; Contents; Figures; Tables; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Language and thinking; Chapter 3. Problem solving; Chapter 4. Language-specific cognitive processes; Chapter 5. A model of conceptual-linguistic task solving; Chapter 6. Task design and task analysis; Chapter 7. Think-aloud data; Chapter 8. A coding scheme; Chapter 9. Problem solving in a foreign language; Chapter 10. Evaluation of the think-aloud method; Chapter 11. Results and discussion; Backmatter.