CROSS-CURRICULAR TEACHING IN THE MFL CLASSROOM
Cross-curricular teaching and learning has been interpreted by teachers who use it in their lessons, in many different ways. One of the basic objectives in cross-curricular teaching is to cover as many subject areas within the lessons of a particular subject as possible to enable students to do activities that will access as much knowledge from as many subject areas within the curriculum. It also enables teachers to not stick so rigidly to their coursebooks, but rather expand the given objectives being taught to other subject areas while keeping in mind the main objectives within a certain unit.
Today's MFL coursebooks are often written by authors who are not natives of the country where a particular coursebook is being used, and sometimes the reading content presented in the books is not close to home for students who come from a different cultural background from that of the author. This can have a negative effect on them because they cannot identify themselves with that particular content. With little or no prior knowledge of the content's background, learning grammar from this perspective can be very difficult.
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