Search results for "Integrated learning"

Retrospective Orientation to Learning Activities and Achievements as a Resource in Classroom Interaction

2018

This article explores the temporal nature of language learning in classroom settings through the lens of Conversation Analysis (CA) by drawing on video‐recorded interactions from Content and Language Integrated (CLIL) classrooms. It outlines some methodological challenges that the task of documenting language learning in and as observable social interaction poses for CA studies of second language (L2) learning and proposes that learning has typically been described as either a situated activity (in cross‐sectional studies) or a series of intermediate achievements (in longitudinal studies). The empirical analysis focuses on interactional instances in which students observably invoke and desc…

Thinking and Content Learning of Mathematics and Science as Cognitional Development in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Teaching Thro…

2005

This paper presents a study on thinking and learning processes of mathematics and science in teaching through a foreign language, in Finland. The entity of thinking and content learning processes is, in this study, considered as cognitional development. Teaching through a foreign language is here called Content and Language Integrated Learning or CLIL. CLIL refers to all those diverse programmes, including some forms of immersion and bilingual education, where a foreign language is a medium of instruction, affecting the entire learning process of the learner. Thinking and content learning in CLIL manifests itself as analogical CLIL reasoning systems, based on two languages, and is assumed t…

A Mixed Methods Study to Examine the Influence of CLIL on Physical Education Lessons: Analysis of Social Interactions and Physical Activity Levels

2020

Physical Education is often selected for applying multilingual initiatives through the use of a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) approach. However, it is still unclear whether the introduction of such an approach might entail losing the essence of physical education and distorting its basic purposes. The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of CLIL on physical education lessons. Given the purpose of this study, a mixed methodological approach based on a sequential exploratory design divided into two different phases is used. We begin with initial qualitative data collection (phase I), consisting of the analysis of interviews with 12 participants (8 teachers and 4 studen…

The impact of foreign language mediated teaching on teachers’ sense of professional integrity in the CLIL classroom

2011

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has received significant interest in recent years as a practical means of creating a plurilingual European community. A key feature of CLIL is the non-native speaking teacher responsible for developing learners’ content and language knowledge in a foreign language mediated environment. Teachers often enter the CLIL classroom with established expertise in either content or language learning; however, the impact of entering the foreign language mediated environment is little explored in existing literature. This investigative research is based on six teacher interviews intended to access the teachers’ own understanding of how foreign language me…

Third year IB high school students' perceptions on the international baccalaureate diploma programme: internationalisation, English medium instructio…

2014

Tämän kvalitatiivisen tutkielman tavoitteena oli selvittää viimeisen vuosikurssin käyneiden IB-lukiolaisten käsityksiä opiskelusta suomalaisessa IB-lukiossa. Aineiston keruussa käytettiin puolistrukturoituja teemahaastatteluja, ja tutkimusta varten haastateltiin seitsemää suomalaisen IB-lukion oppilasta. Tutkimuskysymykset koostuivat seuraavista aihealueista: IB-lukioon hakeminen ja koulutuksen rakenne, IB-opiskelijaprofiili, englannin kielen rooli koulutuksessa, jatkokoulutus- ja uraodotukset sekä kansainvälisyys. Tutkimustulokset osoittavat, että suomalaiset IB-lukiolaiset kokevat jo kouluaikana olevansa hyvin kansainvälisesti suuntautuneita. He pitävät opiskelua englannin kielellä tärkeä…

The Future is Now : UAS Language Education in Transition

2019

The current article discusses how the increasing student diversity and transformation of work challenge language education at the Finnish universities of applied sciences (UAS). The article highlights some administrative and pedagogical solutions that have been developed at Karelia UAS to enable the progress of diverse students towards professional competence in foreign languages necessitated by the changes in the labour market. The aim of this article is to evoke discussion on the future directions of language education in vocational higher education. nonPeerReviewed

CLIL teachers as materials designers

2014

Vieraskielinen sisällönopetus (CLIL), jossa kouluaineita opetetaan vieraalla kielellä, on kasvattanut suosiotaan varsinkin Euroopassa. Sisällön ja kielen oppimisen tulokset CLIL-opetuksessa ovat yleisesti hyviä, mutta menetelmä on opettajalle työläs pääasiassa siksi, että CLIL-materiaaleja on tuskin ollenkaan saatavilla. Sopivien materiaalien etsiminen, muokkaaminen ja valmistaminen on aikaa vievää ja voi vaatia erikoisosaamista. Materiaaleihin liittyvä tuki on onnistuneiden CLIL-ohjelmien edellytys. Tuki voi tarkoittaa materiaalien valmistamista, materiaalipankkien perustamista, materiaalien jakamisen tukemista tai opettajien kouluttamista materiaalien valmistuksessa. Tarvitaan tietoa pros…

Teacher smiles as an interactional and pedagogical resource in the classroom

2020

In classroom settings, laughter and smiles are resources for action that are available to both teachers and students. Recent interactional studies have documented how students use these resources to deal with trouble of various kind, but less is known about the sequential and activity contexts of teachers’ laughter-relevant practices, as well as their pedagogical functions. We use multimodal conversation analysis (CA) to investigate the interactional unfolding and pedagogical orientations of teacher smiles during instructional IRE (initiation-response-evaluation) sequences in a corpus of 37 bilingual lessons collected in schools in Finland and Spain. In analysing the focal smiles, we pay at…

Creating positive environment through interaction in Finnish EFL and CLIL classrooms

2008

Nursing students' professional oral English communication skills in simulated data

2017

1990-luvun alussa Suomen lainsäädäntö mahdollisti opetuksen vieraalla kielellä (CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning). Tässä tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan englanninkielipainotteisessa sisätauti-kirurgisessa koulutusohjelmassa opiskelleiden sairaanhoidon opiskelijoiden ammatillista suullista englannin kielen taitoa. Koulutus aloitettiin vuonna 1994. Tutkimus pyrkii kuvaamaan miten ammatillisesti opiskelijat viestivät potilaiden kanssa simuloiduissa työnäytteissä. Lisäksi tavoitteena on tarkastella, mikä rooli opiskelijoiden yleisellä englannin kielen taidolla oli vietintäprosessissa. Tutkimuksen aineisto kerättiin näyttökokeella, joka laadittiin yhteistyössä koulutusohjelmassa opett…