Clil
CONTENT
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………….4 1. What is CLIL? ..........................................................................................................5 2. Five dimensions for introducing CLIL……………………………………………..6 3. Benefits of CLIL…………………………………………………………………....7 4. History of CLIL……………………………………………………………………10 5. CLIL’S situation in Lithuania……………………………………………………...12 6. The research of CLIL’S successfulness in tertiary level…………………………...13 7. Perspectives of CLIL……………………………………………………………….15 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………..17 LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning is a part of European Commission Multilingualism, Foreign Language teaching projects.
During the CLIL program, teachers educate pupils’ with curricular subjects through communicative foreign language teaching. In CLIL teachers and learners, of content subjects, use a foreign or second language as the medium of communication and instruction. CLIL is widely seen as an excellent means of learning a language, and introducing international aspects into the teaching of content subjects.
CLIL methodologies and theories have been taken up from the North (Sweden) to South (Spain) of the European Union and even in to Asia, Africa and South America. This program has been established decades ago in Europe, but in Lithuania CLIL it is still a kind of a novelty. The aim of this course project is to get acquainted with CLIL’S basic definitions, theories and history. Meanwhile the objectives are to investigate the status of CLIL in Lithuania and to forecast it’s perspectives in science teaching.
1. WHAT IS CLIL?
CLIL is Content and Language Integrated Learning. It is a learning approach that enables the study of another curricular subject through the medium of a foreign language. CLIL is the particular focus on a spectrum of cross-curricular
INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………….4 1. What is CLIL? ..........................................................................................................5 2. Five dimensions for introducing CLIL……………………………………………..6 3. Benefits of CLIL…………………………………………………………………....7 4. History of CLIL……………………………………………………………………10 5. CLIL’S situation in Lithuania……………………………………………………...12 6. The research of CLIL’S successfulness in tertiary level…………………………...13 7. Perspectives of CLIL……………………………………………………………….15 CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………………..17 LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning is a part of European Commission Multilingualism, Foreign Language teaching projects.
During the CLIL program, teachers educate pupils’ with curricular subjects through communicative foreign language teaching. In CLIL teachers and learners, of content subjects, use a foreign or second language as the medium of communication and instruction. CLIL is widely seen as an excellent means of learning a language, and introducing international aspects into the teaching of content subjects.
CLIL methodologies and theories have been taken up from the North (Sweden) to South (Spain) of the European Union and even in to Asia, Africa and South America. This program has been established decades ago in Europe, but in Lithuania CLIL it is still a kind of a novelty. The aim of this course project is to get acquainted with CLIL’S basic definitions, theories and history. Meanwhile the objectives are to investigate the status of CLIL in Lithuania and to forecast it’s perspectives in science teaching.
1. WHAT IS CLIL?
CLIL is Content and Language Integrated Learning. It is a learning approach that enables the study of another curricular subject through the medium of a foreign language. CLIL is the particular focus on a spectrum of cross-curricular