CLIL Methodology_3

Focus on Speaking Skills in Clil Contexts 

This session gives  us the opportunity to talk about the importance of communicative competence in clil, in the light of, what in clil terms is called, "reconceptualization of language". A brief overview of some learning theories about learning and second language acquisition (Vygotsky, Cummins and Krashen) should help us understand the role played by the teacher in promoting  intellectually demanding work.
When this happens .. the teacher is creating a genuine need for learners to acquire the appropriate language 

Most of the research carried out in clil classroom has shown  that the oral interaction is still exceedingly low.

There is therefore a need to foster speaking activities which can engage students  within clil classrooms

Participants are  invited to try out in their classrooms some of those speaking activities presented: ie Balloon Debate, Prove it, Rubric Jigsaw for Prentations 

Next session on 6th May they will be asked to share their feedback with the rest of the class

CLIL principlese_3

Here is your 3rd lesson's presentation 


The roles of Language: focus on classrom interaction 

Methodology Clil 2

This session gave us the opportunity to look at the language demands of subject content in texts at sentence and word levels so as to explore the benefits of promoting a genre-based teaching approach.

Language demands: focus on disciplinary knowledge

Workshop: teachers were asked to analyse their subject area and to share their findings with their peers.

Clil Principles 2

21st Century Education . Clil Practice: Focus on Cross-Curricular Competences

New learning demands:

• learning skills
• literacy skills
• life skills

Looking at the "policy dialogue, CLIL Policy and Practice: Competence-based education for employability, mobility and growth, Italy 2014"  This was well supported by ministries of education and sector specialists throughout Europe, the key objective of the gathering is to draft a set of recommendations for the European Commission

Clegg's Proposal (one of the speakers): "The Role of Clil in Developing  Language and Cognitive Skills in the Curriculum"

Methodology Clil 1

26th February Aristosseno 1 

"Transforming theory into practice: looking at the clil toolkit with a special emphasis on the unit planning stage"

Here is the presentation 

This session gave us the opportunity to look at those factors which need to be considered when planning a clil curriculum

•Stage One: Guiding principles Looking at Learning Ethos

•Stage Two: Analysing the Teaching Curriculum Overview planning for the topic/theme/ Module

•Stage Three: Preparing the Learning Context

•Stage Four: Monitoring Progress (Locit)

•Stage Five: Evaluating

Principles of Clil 1

 19th February Aristosseno 2

Let's give it a start!!

Understanding Clil is the driving force to successful teaching

• What do we mean by CLIL
• How familiar are we with some terminology
• Different Clil models
• Implications in implementing a clil approach
• Benefits of clil for teachers
• Benefits of clil for students
• Key clil concepts: 4Cs framework

21s century teacher

Work in progress



Whether you are a FL teacher or newly-to-be clil teacher we need to understand:

- until there is a proper cooperation between the two we are not in a position to talk about clil programmes

FL teachers should not feel themselves being usurped by clil teachers - on the contrary they should see all the beneficial effects this new approach could have on his/her teaching outcome

- clil has to be integrated within the FL curriculum
. CEFR are lacking of the cognitive dimension

WE need to train our students to communicate in the real world .- For years and years I have been insisting on communicative skills -

- To promote high order thinking skills  - Students need to be able to classify, how to order, how to evaluate, how to make hypothesis, how to analyse, produce reasons.  Every single thinking skills will need some specific language.

There however some training issues
The FL teacher is essential in this process of innovation ..!!

Maybe we need to go back to schools and start promoting an armonious  approach where all the subjects involved should be made feel safe and well looked after!!