The Project Framework, a Tool for Language, Content, and Skills Integration

I. Title - The Project Framework, a Tool for Language, COntent, and Skills Integration

II. Author - Gulbahar H. Beckett and Tammy Slater

III. Author's Purpose for Writing - Does the Project Framework (project-based learning which
integrates skills with a self-assessment (graphing) component promote self-motivated learning?
IV. What are the points made in the literature? The Framework allows ESL students to see the value of project-based instruction by making explicit the various components which work together to promote higher level academic literacy: language, thinking skills, and content knowledge.

Do they support the need for the study? Yes

V. Author's Inquiry Question - Does project-based learning socialize students into a new way of thinking about language and language learning?

VI. Author's Methodology - The Project Framework is a tool that addresses the simultaneous learning of language, content, and skills

A. Who is being studied? 57 ESL students and their teacher at a Canadian University

B. Over what length of time? 3 classes of a 14 week course

C. What data is being collected? syllabus, lesson plans, student portfolios, student reflexions

D. How is it being analyzed? constant comparison

E. Any other interesting or pertinent data - all 57 were able to use the project

VII. How the author collected information - interviews

VIII. What the author discovered or conclusions/implications - The use of projects establishes a direct link between language learning and its application as well as to create opportunities which allow ESL students to develop their abilities in the target language by interacting and communicating with each other.