Clil elves how language teachers can help clil novices

THE CLIL ELVESHOW LANGUAGE TEACHERS CAN

HELP CLIL NOVICES

Content & LanguageIntegrated Learning

Jim Connollyjim.connolly@teachers.atlantic.ac

WHAT ARE YA ON ABOUT?Witche

s, Elves,CLIL ?

CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING

Simplest definition:

“pupils learn a subject through the medium of another language”

WHAT A GREAT IDEA !!

Dentures:Invented by the Etruscans in northern Italy,ca. 700BC

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

SocratesRousseauCopernicusKantDescartesSpinozaKierkegaardTolstoyEinsteinGalileoErasmusVoltaire

“To speak English one must place the tongue

between the teeth, and I have lost my teeth”

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Aimed at … supporting the modernisation of education

THE MODERNISATION OF EDUCATION

CLIL

Bilingual Unterricht

Disiplinas Non Linguisticas

Disciplines Non Linguistiques

The Cycle of Life

Das Lebens-zyklus

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

markieren

ausgraben

reinstecken

auffüllen

feststampfen

fertig

¿QUE TAL? “CLIL throws its learners into the deep end of the conceptual and procedural pool, then throws in the linguistic armbands.”

Phil Ball (2015)

“CLIL requires the subject teacher to use effective teaching practice coupled with the introduction of key language at relevant points.”

Karen Waterson (2015) (Modern English Teacher)

CLIL DISIPLINAS NON LINGUISTICAS – DISCIPLINES NON LINGUISTIQUES – BILINGUAL UNTERRICHT

Content and Language Integrated Learning

ContentCommunicationCognitionCulture

SUBJECTS SOUGHT / TAUGHT Actually, it’s the thought that counts!

* Cognitive engagement

* Procedurally rich collaborative tasks

Communicative Approach Lexical Approach Pre – While – Post Task-based Learning

EFL TEACHING METHODOLOGY

FOR ASTRONOMY LOVERS

Text adapted from McClure and Byrd, 15 Feb 2016, Earthsky.org

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter have put on a spectacularshow before dawn in recent weeks. All five have been visible together in a graceful arc across the predawn sky, guiding the mind’s eye into the edgewise plane of our own solar system. In late January and early February, the moon swung past the planets. By mid-February, though, Mercury was getting harder to see from the Northern Hemisphere. Soon, it will be too close to the rising sun to be visible from here. Southern Hemisphere viewers will see it for some days longer, possibly through the month’s end. And all of us can still see four planets at once! Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter remain visible before dawn. And Jupiter is coming up in the evening now.

Things are HOTSing up !

LANGUAGE SUPPORT from our perspective This is because … at an angle as the planet orbits the sun a faster rate of orbit

As mercury orbits the sun, it appears to get closer to the sun,

so that it eventually becomes invisible from our perspective.

Scaffolding / Substitution tablesGrammar patternsAcacdemic language needed across all subjects

it seems to

with the effect that

DICTOGLOSS

Q: When is a good time to use dictogloss in the CLIL lesson?

Read a short text aloud to pupils.As you read, the students take notes. Then, in pairs, they use their notes to reconstruct the text.

DEFINITIONS

e.g. ORBIT = the regularly repeated elliptical course of a celestial object or spacecraft about a star or planet. Q: What is the difference between knowing this definition and being able to define orbit in your own words?

Knowing the meaning of a word or phraseKnowing the word that expresses that meaningExplaining the definition in your own words

PROCEDURESCollaborative learningInteraction between learnersGrappling with the subject and the languageHands-on learning by discovery, communication

GAMES

e.g. pronunciation bingo

OOO OO OOOO OOO OOOOO

Engaging students,Emotional investment in learning,Appeal to different learning types,Communicative in nature.

Make it

Learner-

Centred

SHOE LACES

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Content

Communication

Cognition

Culture

EFL METHODOLOGY FOR DISCIPLINES NON LINGUISTIQUES

Adopt methodology to the learning contextContent FirstConceptual SequencingProcedurally Rich

Collaborative Tasks

Learner-Centred LessonsNew Perspectives

MICROTEACHING

CLIL Elves… Jim Connolly jimjoecon@yahoo.com jim.connolly@teachers.atlantic.ac

Primary reference: Dale, L. & Tanner, R. (2012) CLIL Activities.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press