Benefits of Collaborating Content-Based Instructio
and Literature Teaching
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
What is CLIL?
Why have we chosen CLIL as a second language learning methodology? It is important to know the concept of CLIL it means Content and Language Integrated Learning, for many researchers CLIL has several definitions but it has a single purpose, this can be a methodology, an approach, a teaching method where students learn a subject and a second language at the same time, it also provides a new world view on how to approach second language teaching more effectively. In other words, language is used to teach content and content is used to teach language. In addition, CLIL offers teachers who teach outside of an English-speaking environment the opportunity to help students learn English in a natural and fluent way, using it while integrating the learning of other subjects. There are several aspects that are essential to know more about Content and Language Integrated Learning such as the origin, the advantages and disadvantages of this method and the importance it has when we implement it in classes.
Origin of CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning is a methodology or method that combines the teaching of curricular content with the teaching of a no native language. CLIL was used for a first time by David Marsh in 1994 at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland. People interested in foreing language should travel to the country where the target language is spoken because was common practice in ancient Rome to teach subjects in a foreign language but in countries where more that one official language is spoken, lilingualal education has a long history. For that reason, some pedagogues also emphasizaed the nee to laern a foreing language in their environment. For example a group of people in Quebec, Canada applied for L2 for a kindergarten in the mid of 1960. Over the decades, the term imnmersion has been used to refer to bilingual education at CBI and in bilingual education programs several teachers in USA and England used CLIL and Marsh purposed that as a "general umbrella" term for appliying varios teaching techniques leading to dual focus education where attention is paid to both subject as the language of instruction .
Advantages and disadvatages
The advantages of collaborating Content Based Instruction are that studets will be exposed to meaningful content, so in this case content and knowledge that at the beginning was not created for education. For example the book Moby Dick of Herman Melville that was created to represent how far can go a man fir his desire of revenge but in most of the intitutions this book is use for students of High school.
Another advantage of using Literature is that CBI improves self learning skills, in a CBI context the use of such educational videos can support the course content and facilitate the learning by having students revise the content and the language practiced in the lesson, It is innovate beacuse is not just watch the video it is analyzing and enjoy it, then the students create library websites and upload the videos there
The dissadvantage of using Literature for our classes is trhat the content could be boring and heavy for our students. For that reason we have to choose in a careful way our content.
Is it important to implement some methodologies into the classroom ?
According some studies, the use of different methodologies is a good option instead of using just one of them in the learning process. The importance of introducing the Collaborating Content - Based instrucction, The students are focused on learning about something that interst them , for developing knowledge and so the develop their linguistics ability in the target language and the students can use the language to fulfil a real purpose, wich can make students both more indeopendant and confident, It could be websites, reference book, audio or video of lectures or even real people.
According to Coyle's 4Cs curriculum ( 1999) a succesful CLIL class chould include the following four elements:
1.- Content: Progression in knowledge and undertanding related to specific element of a defined curriculum
2.- communication: Using a language to learn whilst learning concept formation ( abstract and concrete), understading and language
3.- culture: Exposure to alternative perspecrive and shared understanding, wich deepen awarness of otherness and self.
Blom's Taxonomy, for example, classifies learning objectives in education and puts skills in a hierarchy, form Lower Order Thhinking Skills (LOTS) to Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
Conclusion
CLIL refers to an affective learning strategy since content from other subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc. are taught with the aim of teaching a second language, in this case English. Also, by teaching other content that is not specifically English, studentss will not feel stressed or forced to learn that language, but we learn that language almost inconlusively since the entire class will be that language. A clear example of the use of this methodology is Canada as it is a bilingual country. Native English teacher used it to teach classes of another subject, in this example we can see that students being in contact with a native person motivates students to learn this language due to the new bilingual environment that surrounds them. This methodology puts into practice learning where the center of the class is the student and the teacher is a guide that provides materials for the students to work collaboratively and thus make their knowledge easier and more efficient.
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