Search results for "Content and Language Integrated Learning"

CLIL Challenges : Secondary School CLIL Teachers’ Voices and Experienced Agency in Three European Contexts

2020

This qualitative interview study focuses on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teacher agency in three European contexts, Austria, Finland and Andalusia, Spain. The aim of the study is to understand how individual CLIL teachers experience their agency when encountering challenges in their work and to demonstrate the multifaceted quality of their agency. The study employs the Listening Guide method (Gilligan, 2015) to listen to the voices of three secondary school subject teachers from three diverse contexts. The analysis shows that CLIL challenges both empowered and disempowered the teachers depending on how meaningful they found their work and what their possibilities to act w…

School and choice: An ethnography of a primary school with bilingual classes

2010

Based on a one-year ethnographic study of a primary school in Finland with specialised classes in Finnish and English (referred to as bilingual classes by research participants), this research traces how nationed, ethnicised, classed and gendered differences are produced and gain meaning in school. I examine several aspects of these differences: the ways teachers and parents make sense of school and of school choice; the repertoires of self put forward by teachers, parents and pupils of the bilingual classes, and the institutional and classroom practices in Sunny Lane School (pseudonym). My purpose is to examine how the construction of differentness is related to the policy of school choice…

Knowing matters : how students address lack of knowledge in bilingual classroom interaction

2014

Children’s strategic participation in a bilingual Early Childhood Education and Care Centre

2020

This article considers children’s language learning experiences at an early childhood education and care centre (ECEC) in Central Finland. The article draws on data gathered as part of a Master’s thesis study (Holmila, 2019) which looked at the perspectives of staff, parents and children regarding the use of English as part of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology at the ECEC, with a view to future developments of CLIL provision. This article considers what can be learned from the children’s perspectives. Following a brief overview of the advantages of bilingual educational programmes and the educational context for this study, the main section of this article focu…

Vieraskielisen opetuksen monet tahot ja toimijat

2011

The intriguing human being : a cooperative CLIL material package for teaching human anatomy and senses through English in elementary school

2013

Koulutusjärjestelmät ovat kautta aikojen pyrkineet vastaamaan tarpeisiin, joita sen hetkinen maailma on sille luonut. Nykyaikana globalisaatio ja kansainvälistyminen ovat tuoneet omat haasteensa koulutusjärjestelmille. Vastineeksi näihin tarpeisiin on muodostunut erilaisia opetusmenetelmiä, joista yhtenä Suomeenkin levinnyt CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). CLIL on nimeke opetukselle, joka tapahtuu oppijalle vieraalla kielellä. CLIL:iä ei kuitenkaan tule sekoittaa perinteisiin kielikylpymenetelmiin tai kaksikieliseen opetukseen vaan sillä on omat erityispiirteensä. CLIL opetuksella on kaksoisfokus kieleen ja sisältöön. Samanaikaisesti pyritään siis opettamaan niin kielellisiä…