Clil
DEBATE: 1. What is CLIL? What are the advantages it offers? Is it applicable to your educational center? Thanks for your CLIL post. I'm currently doing my PhD in CLIL, particularly looking at materials development for foreign language contexts. It's not easy to talk about CLIL as there are so many models. Besides, there are no recipes or how-to books (and there shouldn't be either given the importance of context in CLIL methodology).
As regards materials development, it´s not an easy task but by having teachers developing materials together for each specific context we can overcome the difficulty that international editions find when attempting to produce materials for a wide market. After all, we need to bear in mind that CLIL needs to somehow reflect the school curriculum. How can an international textbook reflect that given variables such as students' age, cogntive level, language proficiency, school subjects, among others? 1. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become the umbrella term describing both learning another (content) subject such as physics or geography through the medium of a foreign language and learning a foreign language by studying a content-based subject. In ELT, forms of CLIL have previously been known as 'Content-based instruction', 'English across the curriculum' and 'Bilingual education'. 2. CLIL’s advantages are: * Introduce the wider cultural context * Prepare for internationalisation * Access International Certification and enhance the school profile * Improve overall and specific language competence * Prepare for future studies and / or working life * Develop multilingual interests and attitudes * Diversify methods & forms of classroom teaching and learning * Increase learner motivation. 3. Absolutely, as your academic center does with the “Advanced Specialization Program” which offers the introduction to
As regards materials development, it´s not an easy task but by having teachers developing materials together for each specific context we can overcome the difficulty that international editions find when attempting to produce materials for a wide market. After all, we need to bear in mind that CLIL needs to somehow reflect the school curriculum. How can an international textbook reflect that given variables such as students' age, cogntive level, language proficiency, school subjects, among others? 1. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become the umbrella term describing both learning another (content) subject such as physics or geography through the medium of a foreign language and learning a foreign language by studying a content-based subject. In ELT, forms of CLIL have previously been known as 'Content-based instruction', 'English across the curriculum' and 'Bilingual education'. 2. CLIL’s advantages are: * Introduce the wider cultural context * Prepare for internationalisation * Access International Certification and enhance the school profile * Improve overall and specific language competence * Prepare for future studies and / or working life * Develop multilingual interests and attitudes * Diversify methods & forms of classroom teaching and learning * Increase learner motivation. 3. Absolutely, as your academic center does with the “Advanced Specialization Program” which offers the introduction to