CLIL BasicsContent and Language

Integrated Learning

CLILContent 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.

CLILAimsto develop learning strategiesto stimulate critical thinkingto develop creativityto raise motivation

CLILAdvantagescommunicative skillscognitive skillsreal content / informationintercultural skills

CLILBilingual education – Luxembourg, CanadaImmersion – total immersion x partial immersion;

early immersion x late immersionTypes of CLIL

Soft CLIL

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Hard CLIL

CLILaims: content and languagealso develops learning strategies and skills

4 Cs

4 CsContent

curricular subjects taught in CLILsome programmes develop cross-

curricular linkswe need to analyse content for its

language demands and to present content in an understandable way

4 CsCommunication

the language used for learning the content

learners participate in meaningful interaction

teachers encourage peer and group feedback as well as self-evaluation

4 CsCognition

CLIL promotes cognitive – thinking - skills

we develop learners‘ cognitive skills

(e. g. reasoning, creative thinking, evaluating)

4 CsCulture

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

CLILLANGUAGE

content-obligatory languagecontent-compatible languageCALP – cognitive academic language

proficiencyBICS – basic interpersonal communication

skills

CLILCOGNITIVE SKILLS

processes that our brains use when we think and learn

develop from a very young agefrom information processing / concrete thinking

skills – identifying and organising information to abstract thinking – reasoning, hypothesising

CLILLOTS or Lower order thinking skills

rememberingidentifyingorderingdefiningchecking understandingreviewing learning

CLILHOTS or Higher order thinking skills

reasoninginquiry and discussioncreative thinkingevaluatinghypothesising

Bloom‘s TaxonomyCreating

Evaluating

Analysing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

Thank you! myska.t@email.czReferencesBentley, Kay – The TKT Course CLIL Module, CUPBentley, Kay – Primary Curriculum Box, CUPDeller, Sheelagh and Price, Christine - Teaching Other

Subjects through English, OUP Calabrese, Immacolata and Rampone, Silvana – Cross-

Curricular Resources for Young Learners, OUPProject 3 Fourth Edition Pracovní sešit s poslechovým

CD a přípravou na testování, OUPProject 5 Fourth Edition Pracovní sešit s poslechovým

CD a přípravou na testování, OUPhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations