Sunday 30 October 2016

To CLIL or not to CLIL, that is the question...





These last lessons we have been dealing with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). Our teacher suggests that the best way to use this methodological approach is through project work.

CLIL is a very useful approach to teach, since you are teaching language and content at the same time. If you feel comfortable teaching through CLIL, your students will perceive that positively and they will probably enjoy the process and will not be reluctant to learn contents in English.

On the other hand, if we want to be successful, all the teachers should be involved in the project. If this is the case, the English teacher can focus on more or less peripheral aspects of the project.

When planning a project, as the one we need to plan for our microteaching, we have to think about some important aspects:
  • Aims
  • Competences
  • Concepts (language and content)
  • How to introduce the topic
  • Stages of the project
  • Materials
  • Assessment
  • Activities, tasks and worksheets

Tasks cannot be isolated; they need to follow a structure. There should be warm up activities, middle activities and a final task. The activities should be assessed.

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