CLIL essentials concepts and its complementary perspectives

Soft CLIL

It is when a language learning is taught with a content

Hard CLIL

It is when language and content is taught at the same time

CLIL Teachers

are

Evaluator, asesor, designer and planner

Language promoter

Not a language teacher

Reflective proffessional through the experiences

Team partner

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

Teaching language for communication. (Harmer, 2012)

Improve the communicative skills in students

Focused on

Real context

Organizational and pragmatical components

Promotes

Active participation by students

Fluency and accuracy

Autonomy

Task Based Language Teaching (TBLT)

Task is the core of language teaching.

Focused on

Meaning

Solving communication problems

Task completion

Tasks' assessment

Project Based Learning (PBL)

Look for solving an specific problem to demonstrate their knowledge and skills by showing a real product in front of an audience.

English for Specific Purposes (ESP)
(ESP)

Students learn legal language within a specific field. i.e Business English

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)

Based on 8 components

Preparation

Define content and language objectives

Choose concepts according to the age and the educational background

Building Background

Linking concepts

Differenciate past and new concepts

Key vocabulary

Comprehensible Input

Appropriate use of speaking

Academic task

Variation of techniques to clarify content concepts

Strategies

Variety of strategies

Scaffolding techniques per lesson

Variety of question types

Interaction

Create discussion

Group work helps with objectives

Clarify concepts in L1

Practice and application

Material

Activities to apply content and language knowledge

Integration of all language skills

Review and assessment

Review of key vocabulary

Key vocabulary

Feedback

Conduct assessment

Lesson delivery

Content and language objectives

Students' engagement 90-100% of the lesson.

Create a lesson according to the students abilities

Sheltered Instruction

Teaching content

English learners or native speakers English learners

Integration of meaningful language and content

Socio-cultural awareness

Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach (CALLA)

Instructional model developed for content and language learning

Embody

Student development of learning strategies

Metacognitive strategies

Cognitive strategies

Socio-affective strategies

Content Based Instruction (CBI)

Learning language through the study of subject matter

CBI curriculum

Based on a subject matter core

Uses authentic language text

Appropiate to the need of specific groups of students