1. Content and Language Integrated Learning
CLIL Basics
Content and Language
Integrated Learning

2. CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning
is an approach or method which integrates the teaching of content from the curriculum with the teaching of a non-native language.

3. CLIL Aims to develop learning strategies
to stimulate critical thinking
to develop creativity
to raise motivation

4. CLIL Advantages communicative skills cognitive skills
real content / information
intercultural skills

5. CLIL Bilingual education – Luxembourg, Canada
Immersion – total immersion x partial immersion; early immersion x late immersion
Types of CLIL
Soft CLIL ↕
Hard CLIL

6. CLIL aims: content and language
also develops learning strategies and skills
4 Cs

7. 4 Cs Content curricular subjects taught in CLIL
some programmes develop cross-curricular links
we need to analyse content for its language demands and to present content in an understandable way

8. 4 Cs Communication the language used for learning the content
learners participate in meaningful interaction
teachers encourage peer and group feedback as well as self-evaluation

9. 4 Cs Cognition CLIL promotes cognitive – thinking - skills
we develop learners‘ cognitive skills
(e. g. reasoning, creative thinking, evaluating)

10. 4 Cs
Culture
role of culture, understanding ourselves and other cultures
different languages, different social and cultural backgrounds
CLIL provides opportunities to introduce a wide range of cultural contexts – learners become aware of global as well as local citizenship

11. CLIL Language content-obligatory language content-compatible language
CALP – cognitive academic language proficiency
BICS – basic interpersonal communication skills

12. CLIL
Cognitive Skills
processes that our brains use when we think and learn
develop from a very young age
from information processing / concrete thinking skills – identifying and organising information
to abstract thinking – reasoning, hypothesising

13. LOTS or Lower order thinking skills
CLIL
LOTS or Lower order thinking skills
remembering
identifying
ordering
defining
checking understanding
reviewing learning

14. HOTS or Higher order thinking skills
CLIL
HOTS or Higher order thinking skills
reasoning
inquiry and discussion
creative thinking
evaluating
hypothesising

15. Creating Evaluating Analysing Applying Understanding Remembering
Bloom‘s Taxonomy
Creating Evaluating Analysing Applying Understanding Remembering

16. Thank you! myska.t@email.cz
References
Bentley, Kay – The TKT Course CLIL Module, CUP
Bentley, Kay – Primary Curriculum Box, CUP
Deller, Sheelagh and Price, Christine - Teaching Other Subjects through English, OUP
Calabrese, Immacolata and Rampone, Silvana – Cross-Curricular Resources for Young Learners, OUP
Project 3 Fourth Edition Pracovní sešit s poslechovým CD a přípravou na testování, OUP
Project 5 Fourth Edition Pracovní sešit s poslechovým CD a přípravou na testování, OUP