An Instructional Verb Set for Bilingual Informatics Classrooms

One of the central challenges of task design for an English-speaking informatics class in German schools is the transfer of the compulsory, curriculum-based instructional verb set (IVS) into the English language. Simply translating each verb overlooks the fact that students might have learnt different approaches to an instructional verb in their English classes; hence, a thorough consideration of both IVS’, English and informatics, is mandatory. In order to spark discussions on the matter, we propose a first set of instructional verbs for a bilingual informatics class which attempts to be in line with both curricula.