Article published In: 10th Anniversary Celebration
Edited by Pádraig Ó Duibhir and Laurent Cammarata
[Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 10:2] 2022
► pp. 302–322
Using cognitive discourse functions and comparative judgement to build teachers’ knowledge of content and language integration for assessment in a bilingual education program
Published online: 4 July 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.21017.mor
https://doi.org/10.1075/jicb.21017.mor
Abstract
This paper reports a study carried out in the context of a seminar designed to build teachers’ knowledge of
content and language integration for assessment in a bilingual education program in Madrid, Spain. The participants were seven
teachers (two primary, five secondary) of English and science (primary), and art, history, Spanish language arts and English
(secondary). The teachers were introduced to the concept of cognitive discourse function (CDF) and assessed
samples of students’ work expressing the functions define, evaluate, and explore, using
comparative judgement. In sharing and justifying their assessments, they articulated the criteria they used to take their
decisions. The findings show that participants emphasized content quality over quantity and language form over function. There was
also evidence that the concept of CDFs enabled them to express new understandings of the content-language relationship in
assessment. The study has implications for building the knowledge base for content and language integrated assessment across CBLE
programs.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Assessment in content-based language education
- 3.Cognitive discourse functions
- 4.Comparative judgement
- 5.Participants, data and analysis
- 6.Results
- 7.Discussion and conclusions
- Note
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