Content Language Integrated Learning

Content Language Integrated Learning

1. What's?

   • • Content aim
       • David Marsh (1994)
     • Linguistic aim
   • • Foreign Language
       • LEARNING
         • Non-Language Subject
     • Áine Furlong (2009)
   • • Do Coyle (2005)

2. Why?

   • Promotion of foreign languages
   • Promotion of minority languages
   • Most effective: communicative approach
   • Learning: New language structures
   • Integral part of social and cognitive develpopment
   • Specificity of Language use

3. Dimensions

   • Culture
   • Enviroment
   • Language
   • Content
   • Learning

4. Research Foundations

   • Academically proficient English (5-7 years)
   • Language acquisition is cyclical and recursive
   • Learners acquire best when they create, discover and construct their own meanings
   • Language is a means, they will be motivated to acquire language to communicate
   • Semantic fluency precedes grammatical accuracy and errors are a natural part of language learning
   • Learners develop fluency in negligence by using English to communicate for a variety of purposes
   • Reading is essential for developing academic English skills

5. Principles

   • Communication
     • Using language to learn-whilst learning to use language.
   • Culture
     • Exposure to alternative perspectives and shared understandings
   • Cognition
     • Developing thinking skills which link concept formation, understanding and language
   • Content
     • Progression in knowledge, skills and understanding related to specific elements of a defined curriculum

6. Essential Elements

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