CLIL

CLIL

1. origin: inmersion programmes in Canada

   • aim: improve listening, reading, writing and speaking

2. Content and language integrated learning (1994)

3. Educational technique for situations where students learn genuine subject matter in an additional language

4. CHARACTERISTICS

   • Adapt the curriculum in order to teach using CLIL
     • Adapt curriculum in order to teach using CLIL
   • Can use a second language as a means of teaching content
   • CLIL methodology doesn't use students' mother tongue
   • We have to establish the objectives about content and language learning beforehand

5. Elements of CLIL

   • COMMUNICATION
     • aims to make students communicate their own thoughts through authentig language
     • teacher takes the role of a facilitator
   • CONTENT
     • allows students to learn subjects they are already familiar with through another language
     • could range from personal issues the students are interested in, to important current issues , like politics
   • CULTURE
     • it is by far the most complex to incorporate into a CLIL lesson
     • aims to enhance students to understanding of their own culture, and other cultures
     • promote and encourage international awareness and pluricultural understanding
   • COGNITION
     • it is the process of thinking use understand content and evaluate their learning
     • Levels of thinking (BLOOM'S TAXONOMY)
       • HOTS
         • creating
           • generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing thinks.
         • evaluating
           • justifying a decision or course of action
         • analysing
           • exploring understandings and relationships
       • LOTS
         • applying
           • using information in another familiar situation
         • understanding
           • explaining ideas or concepts
         • remembering
           • recalling information
       • Learning is not about reproducing knowledge but producing it
   • 4 CS