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What types of activities do we do in CLIL?
Activity types
- Activities to enhance peer communication. (assimilate conceptual content + communicative competence)
- Activities to help develop reading strategies.
- Activities to guide student production (oral and written)
- Activities to engage higher cognitive skills.
How are CLIL lessons different from other language lessons?
A CLIL programme is different from other language learning programmes, such as English as a second language or immersion programmes, because it uses a foreign language, mainly English, and not a second language as in the case of French immersion in Canada (Lasagabaster & Sierra, 2010).
What are the disadvantages of CLIL?
Disadvantages Firstly, the problem comes from the teachers themselves, they might only focus on the content and they might be careless to teach learners the language (English) itself. This means, the teachers might not process balance between teaching of language and content, so it can be weak point by using CLIL.
What is CLIL give example?
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an approach where students learn a subject and a second language at the same time. A science course, for example, can be taught to students in English and they will not only learn about science, but they will also gain relevant vocabulary and language skills.
What is language for learning in CLIL?
2) The language FOR learning: language that enables the learner to be functional in a foreign language environment. This includes classroom language as well as language for academic processes and speech acts. 3) The language THROUGH learning: the language generated in the process of learning.
What are the main benefits of CLIL?
CLIL may strengthen learners’ ability to process input, which prepares them for higher-level thinking skills, and enhances cognitive development. 3. In CLIL, literacy development takes place in the first language, which is cognitively beneficial for the child.
Which are the benefits of CLIL?
Is CLIL a method or an approach?
What CLIL is not?
CLIL is not a programme. Although some programmes that use CLIL approach are sometimes referred to as programmes, CLIL is first and foremost an educational approach. CLIL is also confused with Content Based Instruction (CBI), an approach used in immersion programs in Canada.
What is CLIL PPT?
CLIL aims to guide language processing and ‘support language production in the same way as ELT by teaching strategies for reading and listening and structures and lexis for spoken or written language.
What are the challenges of CLIL?
Five Challenges of Planning CLIL Lessons
- Introduction.
- Having enough knowledge of the content and the language.
- Knowing how to teach the content as well as the language.
- Balancing the focus on language and content.
- Going beyond CALP.
- Finding appropriate materials.
- Conclusion.
- Reference.
What is difficult about teaching CLIL?
Having enough knowledge of the content and the language The balance between knowledge of the subject matter and the knowledge of the language is probably one of the most noticeable challenges of CLIL. In the current context in Brazil, it is difficult to find teachers who already master both.
How can I use CLIL activities in the classroom?
Opening CLIL activities are important to every lesson and are a great way to help students to start using their second language. Try it out! Use one of these three activities and randomly select students. Be sure to help them with their answer in case they find it hard or scaffold their answers to help them.
Why is this interesting for a CLIL&maths lesson?
Why is this interesting for a CLIL & mathematics lesson? A lot of new phrases are often introduced in new chapters. Think of words like isosceles, perpendicular or trigonometry. If students do not know these words, they will not be able to understand the problems they have to deal with.
What is CLIL All About?
In my opinion CLIL is about motivating students to speak English (or another second language). All of these three activities make sure that happens. Students have to think about words and sentences, write them down and voice them.
Do I need to prepare for CLIL&mathematics?
For the record: all of these activities require no preparation time at all and can be used in other lessons as well, I simply use them in my lessons and focus on CLIL & Mathematics that way. I discussed all of these activities before in other blog posts, proving my point they can be used in different contexts!