Aims of CLIl and rationale for CLIL

What is CLIL?
CLIL, or Content and Language Integrated Learning
here are some of them:
 CLIL
▸Is an approach or method ▸CLIL teachers can be
which integrates the subject teachers, language
teaching of content from teachers, primary
the curriculum with the classroom teachers or
teaching of a non-native assistants.
language.
▸CLIL learners in school
▸It can involve many are between three and
methodologies from both eighteen years old and
subject and language start CLIL at different ages.
teaching
Benefits of CLIL
CLIL aims
to:
 Key concepts
What are the different model of CLIL?

“
Soft CLIL: some scholol teach topics from the curriculum as
part of a language course.

Hard CLIL: other school teach partial immersion

programmes where almost half the curriculum is taught in
the target language .
 What are the 4 Cs of CLIL?

▸Content
▸Communication
▸Cognition
▸Culture

The 4 Cs are connected.

 CONTENT

▸ The curricular subjects taught in CLIL include

art, citizenship, classic, deingn and
technology, music, physical education etc.

▸ Some CLIL programmes develop cross-

curricular links among different subjetcs. In all
CLIL context, we need to analyse content for
its language demands and present content in
an undesrtandlae way.
 COMMUNICATION

▸Learnerrs have to produce subject

language.

▸CLIL aims to increase STT (students

talking time)and reduce the TTT (teachers
talking time).

▸When learners produce the target

language skills are integrated .
Cognition

Promotes cognitive or thinking skills which

challenge learners.

We need to develop learners`, also need to

analyse the thinking processes for their
language demands.
Culture
“Cultures is at the core of CLIL”(Coyle,
2007).

Learners need knowledge of those who

live in others regions or countries.
 Key concepts and the CLIL classroom

BICS CALP

(Basic interpersonal (Cognitive Academic Language

Proficiency)
communicative skills)
It takes learners at least five years
Skills needed for social , to achieve CALP acording to
conversational situations. Cummins and others researches.
Language learning is
contextualised and supported
by teachers and resources.
Language across
the curriculum
 What is the role of languge in CLIL?

CLIL teachers and learners need knowledgeof the language of their curricular
subject.

Learnerd need to know the content-obligatory language.

Learnerns require this language to be able to understnd the subject and

communicate ideas.

Need to know the everyday.

They have ussually learned this language in english leassons.

CLIL gives learners opportunities to develop linguistics abilities during lessons:

acquisition of vocabulary and grammar.

Reaserch in CLIL classrooms shows that most teachers do not teach grammar
during content teaching because content and leanguage are integrated.
 Key concepts
what language knowledge do CLIL teachers and learners
need?

Structures
vocabulary and
meaning
 Vocabulary
▸Learners have to understand and produce a large
amount of subjects-specific vocabulary.

▸Look at the four groups of vocabulary from maths

lesson, what is the difference between them?
▸We can see taht some words are easier to understand than
others .

▸Group 1: content-obligatory or subject –specific vocabulary for

talking about the technical names for the parts of a circle.

▸Group 2:content-compatible or general vocabulary used in

maths and sometimes used in everyday situations.

▸Group 3: high and medium frequency words or the most often

used vocabulary in general english and also used in curriculum
subjects.

▸Group 4: collocations (ways words are combined) used in

specific combinations when we present curricular concepts.
 Structures and meaning

▸We need grammatical structures to communicate

subjects knowledge.

▸Which grammatical structures are relevant?

-Depends on the CLIL subject.

-There are some grammatical structures which are used in

CLIL subjects which are not taught in traditional ELT
classrooms until learners have studied English for several
years.
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How can we help learners improve hteir accuracy?

PAST FUTURE

PRESENT

MODAL

VERB
VERBS
OTHER

FORM
VERB
FORMS

CONDITIONALS

REPORTING PASSIVE
VERBS FORMS
Comunication skills across the curriculum

What is the rol of communication skills in CLIL?

Learners need to develop comunication skills for

curricular subjcts

Communication skills are important for expressing

ideas.

Interaction is part of learning.

Key concepts
 Key concepts and the CLIL
classroom
Plan opportunities for learnes to develop their communication skills in different subjects within the
classroom

Use brainstorming approaches to satrt or finish a topic of study

Develop meaningful communication in the CLIL classroom by using open questions rather than closed
questions and by encouaging learners to:

1. Cooperate during task discussions

2. Become response parter and give feed back

3. Revisit contetn language

4. Share ideas

5. Report back on reaserch found on the internt

6. Prepare poster or PPT

7. Take part in role play

8. End of lesson feedback

Before starting
communicative task we
need to :

Purpose of the comunication

Identify groups rules and timing

Assesing groups roles.

After finishing
communicative task we
need to:
Give reflection time.

Be aware of progression.
Cognitive skills across the curriculum

The processes our brains use when think

and learn.

Develop froma very young age.

Learner progress from information

processing or concreat to abstract
thinking.
 KEY CONCEPTS

What cognitive
skills can you
think of?
 What are LOTS and HOTS?

▸HOTS
▸LOTS

▸To remember information ▸To develop reasoning skills.

▸To develop enquiry and
▸To order information
discussion.

▸To define objects ▸To develop creative thinking.

▸To evaluate the work of oneself
▸To check understanding and others.
▸To hypothesise about what
▸To review learning
could happen.
 Key concepts in the CLIL classroom

▸Need to wait
▸Learners need
time.
progressiely
▸Stop
challenging
▸Think
task to develop
▸Process new
thinking skills. ▸Learners
curricular
benefit from a
concepts.
language – rich
classroom
which help
them t think
and learn well.
Learning skills across the curriculum

▸What are learning

skills?

▸ can applied across

the curriculum. Involve
learning how to learn
and developing learner
autonomy.
Key concepts
 Thanks!

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