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Content and Language Integrated Language (CLIL)
Backgorund
Author
David Marsh
Subjects are taught through a foreign language with
dual-focused
aims: the learning of content and the simultaneous learning of a foreign language.
CLIL approach
It is an instructional approach
Advantages
It helps learners to develop critical thinking skills and improve communicative competence and speaking skills. It based on real life situations and teamwork. It helps to increase learning motivation.
CLIL helps learners to acquire language naturally
Disadvantages
It difficult to implement this approach because not all countries have the same opportunities and contexts.
Design
Objectives of CLIL
1.
Improve students' proficiency in both L1 nad L2.
2.
Develop intercultural understanding.
3.
To develop social and thinking skills.
Implement CLIL
Consider the following aspects
1.
Adequate target-language competence.
2.
Adequate subject-knowledge.
3.
Adequate materials in the target language.
4.
Explicit institutional and national policies.
5.
Teacher co-operation.
Materials
Innovative materials
: Textbooks, realia and authentic materials, ICTs, scaffolding and problem-solving materials, and material to develop cultural awareness.
Curriculum
Interdisciplinary curriculum or cross curricular planning
Five fundamental dimensions of CLIL (Marsh)
1. Cultural dimension
: Cultural understanding. It helps to introduce wider cultural context.
2. Environmen dimension
: It prepares students for internationalization. It helps to access an international certification. Students have the opportunity to acquire:
Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS)
Social language skills
Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALPS)
Language skills to cope with academic requirements
3. Content dimension
: It provides opportunities to study content through different perspectives. Students acquire new lexicon in order to understand concepts or express academic language accurately.
4. Learning dimension
: CLIL has learner-centered methodologies to improve learning by giving attention to individuals' needs (social and thinking skills)
5. Language dimension
: It improves overall target language competence. It includes reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. It provides opportunities to use the language as a tool to communicate.
Roles
Teacher
Educators need to be trained on how to address different topics, on how to plan lessons for diversity or multilevel skills
Learners
They use language for specific porpuses.
They have a
central
and
active
role in classrom.
Materials
It needs to be chosen according to social contexts and students'level and interests.
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