Gaspar, M.C., Régio, M., & Morgado, M. (2017). Lean-Green manufacturing: collaborative content and language integrated learning in higher education and engineering courses. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 7(2), 208-217. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs20172.208.217
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Lean-Green manufacturing: collaborative content and language integrated learning in higher education and engineering courses
Lean and Green manufacturing processes aim at achieving lower material and
labour costs, while reducing impacts on the environment, and promoting sustainability
as a whole. This paper reports on a pilot experiment with higher education and engineering
students, exploring the full potential of a collaborative approach on courses
integrating the Portuguese Polytechnic of Castelo Branco engineering studies curricula,
while simultaneously improving their proÞ ciency in English. Content and Language
Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become a key area of curricular innovation since it is
known for improving both language and content teacher and student motivation. In
this context, instructional design for CLIL entailed tandem work of content (engineering)
and language (English) teacher to design learning sequences and strategies. This
allowed students to improve not only their language skills in English but also their
knowledge in the speciÞ c engineering domain content on green and lean manufacturing
processes. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
