Pinerolo secondary teachers Dr Diana Hicks March 2014
CLIL teaching can be exclusive.....
What are the characteristics of inclusive tasks? ● CHOICE COGNITION CREATIVITY RELATED TO LIVES FLUENCY BASED TRANSPARENT INITIATE EVALUABLE OPEN
Retention rates Teaching method Retention rate 1 formal teaching 5% 2 reading 10% 3 audio-visual20% 4 demonstration 30% 5 discussion 50% 6 practice by doing 75% 7 teaching others90% 8 immediate use 90%
What does this mean for our task design?
How can the L2 teacher help the subject teacher in CLIL? 1 reading skills A. Can the students read L2 fast? Or are they textbound? B Are they teacher/dictionary dependent? C Do they take risks when reading? D Do they enjoy reading?
2 writing skills Can the students draft and redraft? 3 learning awareness Do the students know their strengths and weaknesses?
4 Reflection Can they self evaluate? Do they know which strategies work best for their learning? 5 Collaboration Can they work efficiently in pairs and groups?