CLIL for Visual Arts and Crafts
What is CLIL ?
A. Valentina Franco Lizarazo
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of content and language with the objective of promoting both content and language mastery to predefined levels (Marsh & Wolff, 2007).
How does CLIL work ?
4C's Framework
Bloom's Taxonomy
Goal of the TFG
Students and School Context
Students: Pupils in 3rd grade of primary school
School context: Escola Els Estanys, Platja d’Aro
- Multicultural population sensitive to different languages, especially English.
- The students have three 50’ sessions of English per week.
- They also have a support native teacher sponsored by the AMPA.
- The school had had long-term, stable programs and English teaching staff.
- School had a PELE (Pla Experimental de Llengües Estrangeres) since last year.
Visual Arts and Crafts
annual plan
Linguistic Competence in English
Why 3rd level ?
- The basis of the grammar knowledge in L1 is almost complete.
- Children are better at thinking about language: synonyms, categorization, and figurative language are some of their new language skills.
- Children’s cognitive, phonological, and language skills should be good enough to allow them to learn new information: they can listen, read, write and speak.
- These skills are transferable to the new language learning context.
- Curricular contents of Visuals Arts and that of English are similar.
Course Design
Implementation of the Proposal
Course Design for Visual Arts and Crafts
Teachers involved:
Tutor or Content teacher
+ English teacher
+ Support Teacher
Timing:
Three terms with 10
sessions (1 per week).
Topic:
Each term has an author
and painting as a source
point of work to develop
aims and contents.
Competences:
Mainly communicative
competences but also
methodological and
personal.
Implementation of the Proposal
Conclusions
Practical Experience
- One of the key conditions to implement a CLIL project is that it is also a school project. A close collaboration between the tutor or the content teacher and the English teachers is absolutely necessary.
- This collaboration should include a strong connection between the English class program and the content class program, following an interconnected planning.
- CLIL can improve motivation for both: content and language learning.
- CLIL program requires a strong teacher’s commitment in order to design, prepare, create and rebuild lesson plans and materials.
for CLIL
implementation
Results