TEACHING OTHER SUBJECTS THROUGH L2

CLILContent and Language Integrated Learning

LANGUAGE TEACHING CONTENT LANGUAGE IN L1

TEACHER ROLE Reduce their talking time in order to allow more student talking time. They just monitor and ease the learning process

Main source of input.They talk most of the time

STUDENTS ROLE Students produce language rather than just learn about it. They try out various tasks in L2 and communicate interactively..

They mainly receive input and hardly produce any language input..They do not always interact with their partners.

GROUP WORK Pairs, group, individual, whole class.

Primary: Group, pair, class.Secondary: Individual, sometimes pair, rarely whole class.

INTERACTION Communicative Receptive

ACTIVITIES Active and interesting, interactive and appealing: Audial, visual and kinesthetic.

Audial and visual.Kinesthetic in Primary Education.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES IMPLIED

Linguistic most of the time. Linguistic but also logical, mathematical, musical, interpersonal , etc

SKILLS Listening, reading, speaking, writing

The same but not in the same arrangement and not always considered.

ASSESMENT Linguistic contents Subject contents

CLIL IS THE RESULT OF COMBINING THESE TWO APPROACHES

TEACHER ROLE They channel and ease the learning process. Not only source of input. They must provide the students with activities which allow linguistic production. Must reduce their talking time in order to allow for more student talking time. They must explain the objectives clearly, provide and teach new relevant and technical vocabulary. Make “Frames”.

STUDENT ROLE They must become the main language producer in the class as well as being the the main receptor of input. They must give minitalks and produce written and oral texts and presentations after the “Frames” provided by the teacher.. Make learning materials.

WORK GROUP Flexible and versatile. Individual, pair work and whole class must be dealt with. Free spaces must be provided in order to allow for kinesthetic needs. Must allow time for thinking and reflect

INTERACTION Interactive

ACTIVITIES Comunicative, interactive. They must require cooperation in order to achieve the goals .The information should use different codes in order to activate all the multiple intelligences: From text into chart, chart into text, diagram into oral language, written language into drama, drama into speech, visuals into written, and so forth . Code-switching is a natural and healthy practise.

MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

All the intelligences must be worked with.

SKILLS Reading and writing mainly although every class should at least dedicate some time to listening and oral production . It´s not necessary to follow the skill procedure commonly used in language classes.

ASSESMENT At first stages it is more appropiate to evaluate the content.However, in further stages it is advisable to gradually give more importance to language assesment. This could be done either by evaluating content and language separetly or by elaborating a personal learning portfolio.

NEW TEACHER/STUDENT ROLESIN CLIL From “students receiving knowledge” to…..

“…students constructing knowledge”

From “Teacher or text as authority “to ….

“….students creating meaning”

From “Teachers imparting knowldege” to…..

“…..teachers encouraging thinking”

From “learning should be fun” to….

“….learning should be challenging”

From “thinking develops naturally” to….

“….teachers can facilitate thinking”

CHALLENGES IN CLILSpeaking in L2 is difficult and not natural for

an L1 class.Many students tend to miss the track and

may not pay attention.Teachers have to produce lots of material.It´s difficult to make students participate in

L2.

CLIL CHALLENGESCLIL CHALLENGES FOR:

TEACHERS STUDENTSEDUCATION

BOARD

CLASSROOM

1. Using ITC2. Tackling with different languages and

levels3. Persuading students4. Getting resources

1. Using a new language to communicate2. Getting used to a new way of learning3. Cooperating with their classmates

Understanding

what they are really trying to impleme

nt

CONTENTS

1. Making materials2. Cooperating with other teachers3. Assessment

1. Using the new language to study contents

LANGUAGE

1. Mastery of language 1. Improving their level of English

SCHOOL

1. Convincing the other colleagues of the advantages of the new approach

1. Explaining the advantages of the approach to other classes

GUIDED WRITING RECAPLast lesson we ________________First we_____________________Then we_________________________After that we_________________________Finally we________________________We thought the___________would beWe learnt that________________________-We would like more of___________________We would prefer less of_______________

GUIDED WRITING RECAP

Last lesson we ________________First we_____________________Then we_________________________After that we_________________________Finally we________________________I think I did___, ____,___quite wellI´ve learnt that________________________-I think I have to do more

of___________________I think I have to do less of_______________If I had to do this activity again I would____

Specific characteristics of CLILControlled languageFree creationVAKAuthonomyGenerating own materialsInteractionCooperationSkillsIntelligencesParaphrasing