1. CLIL - THE ESSENTIALS
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2. CLIL essentials
Why CLIL?
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3. 1. Activate prior knowledge (content and language)
CLIL essentials
1. Activate prior knowledge (content and language)
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4. 2. Engage students cognitively
CLIL essentials
2. Engage students cognitively
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5. Bloom’s taxonomy (revised)
Hard reasoning required
creating
evaluating
analysing
applying
understanding
remembering
Easy – little reasoning required
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6. CLIL essentials
3. Differentiate tasks
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7. 4. Supporting content and language
CLIL essentials
4. Supporting content and language
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8. CLIL essentials
Supporting language: sentences starters, substitution tables, writing frames
Supporting content: visuals, realia, information transfers
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9. COGNITIVELY DEMANDING
Sequencing tasks
NO SUPPORT
SUPPORT
COGNITIVELY DEMANDING
QUADRANT A
QUADRANT B
QUADRANT C
QUADRANT D
LESS CHALLENGING
prof.ssa Marisa Grazia ALOSSA

10. 5. Balance language and content demands
CLIL essentials
5. Balance language and content demands
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11. 6. Provide constant and diverse scaffolding
CLIL essentials
6. Provide constant and diverse scaffolding
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12. CLIL ESSENTIALS Engage students cognitively
Activate prior knowledge (content and language)
Differentiate tasks
Support content and language
Balance language and content demands
Provide constant and diverse scaffolding
prof.ssa Marisa Grazia ALOSSA

13. BIBLIOGRAPHY Kay Bentley, The TKT Course – CLIL Module, Cambridge
Do Coyle, Philip Hood, David Marsh, CLIL, Cambridge
Liz Dale, Rosie Tanner, CLIL Activities, Cambridge
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