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CLIL lessons.
Underlying principles
Classroom principles
Lesson framework
Conclusion
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Underlying principles
preparation for both study and working life, and increased motivation.
While CLIL may be the best-fit methodology for language teaching and
to prepare both language and subject teachers for CLIL teaching. The
theory may be solid, but questions remain about how theory translates into
classroom practice.
Classroom principles
Some of the basic principles of CLIL are that in the CLIL classroom:
following:
In a CLIL lesson, all four language skills should be combined. The skills are
seen thus:
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For teachers from an ELT background, CLIL lessons exhibit the following
characteristics:
guide language
processing and supports language production in the same way that an ELT
Lesson framework
A CLIL lesson looks at content and language in equal measure, and often
The best texts are those accompanied by illustrations so that learners can
learners need structural markers in texts to help them find their way
Language identification
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Learners are expected to be able to reproduce the core of the text in their
own words. Since learners will need to use both simple and more complex
semi-fixed expressions and set phrases may also be given attention as well
Receptive skill activities are of the 'read/listen and do' genre. A menu of
sentences
Trivia search - 'things you know' and 'things you want to know'
handout.
Conclusion
From a language point of view the CLIL 'approach' contains nothing new to
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reading and listening and structures and lexis for spoken or written
language. What is different is that the language teacher is also the subject
teacher, or that the subject teacher is also able to exploit opportunities for
developing language skills. This is the essence of the CLIL teacher training
issue.
Further reading
EuroCLIC - www.euroclic.org
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further off the mark, if you don't mind me saying. The point
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don't really understand the idea of CALP, but they should. It's
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