Search results for "Integrated learning"

Implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning at Schools in Latvia

2017

The European Union supports multilingualism and promotes the learning of foreign languages since their knowledge enhances understanding among peoples and increases employability. To increase the efficiency and effectiveness of foreign language education in schools, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been promoted in Europe; this has influenced ways in which Latvia nowadays approaches bilingual education. A qualitative case study was undertaken to explore the implementation of CLIL at schools in Latvia, CLIL being seen as an element of bilingual education. This article outlines the development of CLIL in Latvia, which is largely embedded in national level policies which have…

A teacher's reflections on learning and teaching in an English-medium CLIL teaching experiment

2013

Tämän proseminaaritutkielman tarkoituksena oli tarkastella opiskelijoiden ja opettajan omaa suullista englanninkielen käyttöä englanniksi toteutetussa vieraskielisessä sisällönopetuksessa eli CLIL-opetuksessa työtään kehittävän ja ammatillista oppimista tavoittelevan tutkivan CLIL-opettajan näkökulmasta. CLIL-opetuskokeilu tapahtui Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulun musiikin koulutusohjelmassa lukuvuonna 2011–2012, ja oppisisältönä oli vapaan säestyksen opintojakso. Opetuskokeilun tavoitteena oli tukea osaltaan ammattikorkeakouluopiskelijoiden ammatillisen kielitaidon kehittymistä, erityisesti kykyä ymmärtää ja käyttää suullisessa kommunikaatiossa oman alan musiikillista sanastoa. Tutkimuksen t…

COMPREHENSIVE TEACHER’S PROFESSIONALISM FOR CONTENT AND LANGUAGE INTEGRATED PROVISION

2019

T opicality of the problem is determined by several factors as well as the amendments on the Education Law and the General Education Law, which provide for a gradual transition to the acquisition of general secondary education in Latvian only, educational content reform and teachers experience to work in an ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous environment. The aim of the study is to analyse comprehensive school teachers theoretical background and practice experience to work in the content and language integrated teaching and learning approach. Because language not a subject only but a mean of acquiring other subjects in the comprehensive school, too, all teachers need theoretical kno…

Transversal Skills in Dentistry - Content and Language Integrated Learning Approach

2016

Kulttuurienvälisen tietoisuuden ja kieliasenteiden kehittyminen CLIL-opetuksessa

2018

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) has been claimed to create a positive attitude towards languages and language learning in general and to raise intercultural awareness. The studies on the topics have however remained scarce. This study examines the issue from former pupils’ perspective. The 24 participants, who received English-medium CLIL during their comprehensive school in the 1990s, were interviewed in-depth and the data were analysed qualitatively. Most participants felt that CLIL had had a very positive effect on their attitudes towards English. However, many considered that CLIL had partly been detrimental to their attitudes towards and learning of other languages. The…

Negotiating language across disciplines in pre-service teacher collaboration

2017

AbstractIn multilingual learning settings, in order to provide optimal learning conditions for all learners and support both disciplinary and language knowledge development, subject teachers need knowledge on and understanding of how language is used to construct meanings in their discipline and how to scaffold learning from the premise of learners’ current skills. In this article, we report a descriptive case study of two teaching interventions carried out in pre-service subject teacher practice. Student teachers of science and ethics collaborated with student teachers of Finnish language and literature to plan and implement thematic units that focused on particular disciplinary phenomena …

Design and Style of Cultural and Media Studies Textbooks for College Students

2014

This paper uses the conceptual framework of multimodal discourse analysis in order to investigate the dominant styles and designs in selected Cultural and Media Studies (CMS) university textbooks. For many EFL students who major in philology, CMS courses are obligatory and thus constitute a type of content and language integrated learning (CLIL). The data from a description and evaluation of four popular textbooks indicate that there is a discernible move away from traditional literacy towards visuality and orality in textbook design and style. This tendency is evident in the use of segmentation and listing in composition, dialogic layouts and informal registers in exposition and visual aid…

Attitudes towards the English language : A comparison between a CLIL class and a regular class

2009

 Sanomattakin on selvää, että oppilaiden kieliasenteet vaikuttavat heidän suhtautumiseensa opetettavaa kieltä ja sen eri osa-alueita kohtaan. Suomalaisten oppilaiden asenteet englannin kieltä kohtaan ovat tutkimusten mukaan melko positiivisia. Suomen kouluissa on kuitenkin nykyään monia erilaisia opetusmetodeja, mutta niiden vaikutusta asenteisiin englannin kieltä kohtaan ei ole vielä tutkittu paljoakaan. Tässä tutkimuksessa tutkittiin sitä, millaisia eroja englanninkielisessä CLIL-opetuksessa olleiden oppilaiden ja tavallisessa opetuksessa olleiden oppilaiden asenteissa englannin kieltä kohtaan oli. Tutkimuksen aineisto kerättiin alakoulun 6.-luokkalaisilta (N=48) lyhyen kyselylomakkeen av…

Percepción del alumnado sobre el uso del método AICLE en Educación Física: estudio de caso (Students’ perception of the use of CLIL method in Physica…

2017

El Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lengua Extranjera (AICLE) está siendo cada vez más extendido e investigado en el panorama educativo español. Dada la importancia de la motivación y la predisposición del alumnado para que el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje sea efectivo, este estudio de caso analiza la percepción de un grupo de secundaria durante la aplicación del método AICLE en la asignatura de Educación Física. Se optó por un enfoque metodológico cualitativo apoyado en la triangulación de diarios de reflexión del alumnado, registro anecdótico del profesor-investigador y un focus group. Los resultados afianzan el actual estado de la cuestión, desvelando cinco categorías sobre las q…

REALIZATION OF INTEGRATED LEARNING IN STUDY PRACTICE: PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS EXPERIENCES

2018

The integrated teaching is important tool for promoting the development of students’ critical and creative thinking, self-cognition, learning and cooperation skills and cultural understanding in a constantly changing world. In Latvia, integrated curriculum has become a challenge for educational reforms, too. Latvian teacher educators are looking for appropriate Curriculum content and strategies, in order to promote pre-service teachers with understanding of integrated learning, courage and ability to implement them in professional activities. The aim of an article is analyze possibilities how to improve the pre-service teachers’ readiness to plan integrated lessons for study practice. Metho…