Transcript CLIL Basics
Content and Language
Integrated Learning
CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning
is an approach or method which
integrates the teaching of content
from the curriculum with the teaching
of a non-native language.
CLIL
Aims
to develop learning strategies
to stimulate critical thinking
to develop creativity
to raise motivation
CLIL
Advantages
communicative skills
cognitive skills
real content / information
intercultural skills
CLIL
Bilingual education – Luxembourg, Canada
Immersion – total immersion x partial immersion;
early immersion x late immersion
Types of CLIL
Soft CLIL
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Hard CLIL
CLIL
aims: content and language
also develops learning strategies
and skills
4 Cs
4 Cs
Content
curricular subjects taught in CLIL
some
programmes develop crosscurricular links
we need to analyse content for its
language demands and to present
content in an understandable way
4 Cs
Communication
the language used for learning the
content
learners participate in meaningful
interaction
teachers encourage peer and group
feedback as well as self-evaluation
4 Cs
Cognition
CLIL promotes cognitive – thinking -
skills
we develop learners‘ cognitive skills
(e. g. reasoning, creative thinking,
evaluating)
4 Cs
Culture
role of culture, understanding ourselves and
other cultures
different languages, different social and
cultural backgrounds
CLIL provides opportunities to introduce a
wide range of cultural contexts – learners
become aware of global as well as local
citizenship
CLIL
LANGUAGE
content-obligatory language
content-compatible language
CALP – cognitive academic language
proficiency
BICS – basic interpersonal communication
skills
CLIL
COGNITIVE SKILLS
processes that our brains use when we think and
learn
develop from a very young age
from information processing / concrete thinking
skills – identifying and organising information
to abstract thinking – reasoning, hypothesising
CLIL
LOTS or Lower order thinking skills
remembering
identifying
ordering
defining
checking understanding
reviewing learning
CLIL
HOTS or Higher order thinking skills
reasoning
inquiry and discussion
creative thinking
evaluating
hypothesising
Bloom‘s Taxonomy
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
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References
Bentley, Kay – The TKT Course CLIL Module, CUP
Bentley, Kay – Primary Curriculum Box, CUP
Deller, Sheelagh and Price, Christine - Teaching Other
Subjects through English, OUP
Calabrese, Immacolata and Rampone, Silvana – CrossCurricular Resources for Young Learners, OUP
Project 3 Fourth Edition Pracovní sešit s poslechovým CD a
přípravou na testování, OUP
Project 5 Fourth Edition Pracovní sešit s poslechovým CD a
přípravou na testování, OUP
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