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Project-Based Learning Activities for Short-Term
 Intensive English Programs

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Project-based language instruction is a flexible methodology allowing multiple skills to be developed in an integrated, meaningful, ongoing activity.

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it is “an instructional approach that contextualizes learning by presenting learners with problems to solve or products to develop” (Moss & Van Duzer, 1998, p. 2)

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as a long-term

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simultaneous acquisition of language, content, and skills”

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comprehensible output

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Project-based instruction allows instructors to teach the four core English skills (along with related cultural elements) while giving both instructors and students freedom in what project they choose and how they carry it out

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self-determination may enhance student motivation.

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There is an element of unpredictability in project-based instruction;

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Projects can fail just as projects do in the real world if there is a lack of sufficient organization, group cohesion, or determination to reach the project goal.

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Her data revealed that student themselves were impressed with the language learning they could achieve through their projects.

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offered the project framework as a method for helping students recognize and record such progress.

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  • Be at least partly focused on the relationship between science and ethics.
  • Encourage the building of educational technology skills.
  • Encourage the development of the four core English skills.
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    often with little direct supervision

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