Content and Language Integrated Learning CLIL

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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

• Elliott School and Language College

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CLIL at Elliott School

• 4 year plan
• Starting in Year 6 (primary)
• 1st groups started Sept. 2002
• 1st group to complete the cycle in summer 2006

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• Elliott School works with 7 local primary
  schools.
  
• Until Sept. 2002 French, German and Spanish were
  taught (1 per term)
  
• Dissatisfaction with that model.

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Why CLIL?

• Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (Feb. 2002)
• French immersion teaching

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French Immersion

• In the Canadian Immersion programme French is
  the language of instruction and most of the day
  is spent with both teacher and students speaking
  French.
• Variants of the program refer to entry points
  Early French Immersion (EFI) begins in
  kindergarten or grade 1(Year 1) Middle French
  Immersion (MFI) begins in grades 4 or 5 (Years 4
  5) Late French Immersion (LFI) begins in
  grade 6 (Year 6) or later.

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What are the benefits?

• Some of the benefits gained in Canada are that
  students
  
• achieve greater diversified cognitive
  (intellectual) abilities.
  
• are better problem-solvers
• Possess greater French language skills than
  children in regular Core French programs
  
• do as well as peers in English geography classes
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Our focus

• Geography
• Focus on la francophonie
• France, Canada, Burkina Faso
• Community links (VSO Voluntary Service
  Overseas)
  

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Our programme

• Term 1
• Introduction to geography in French
• In-class communication
• Use of atlases
• Map reading

• Term 2
• Physical and human geography
• Comparison of France and Burkina Faso
• Development indicators

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Our programme

• Term 3
• Climate
• Comparison of France and Burkina Faso
• Impact of climate on human and physical
  geography
  

• Assessment
• Based on communication with partner schools
• Homework
• Formal assessment

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Lesson content

• Planning meetings (per fortnight)
• Use of kinesthetic acitivities
• Atlases, group work, research
• Developing cognitive abilities e.g. comparison,
  justification, prediction, summary
  
• Real communication (use of link schools joint
  projects)

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What comes next?

• Planning for 2003-2004
• Field trips
• Combined projects (bilingual)
• Development of assessment
• Accreditation

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The future

• Languages Curriculum
• DfES will build on the developmental work that
  CILT has been coordinating as part of the Content
  and Language Integrated Project ( CLIP ) to
  establish how language learning might be
  integrated with other parts of the curriculum.
  Over time , the Key Stage 3 curriculum will be
  adapted to take account of the level of
  achievement at primary level , as the entitlement
  to language learning for Key Stage 2 pupils
  becomes a reality."
• Page 22 Languages for AllLanguages for Life
  (DfES) Dec. 2002

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Neil Jones (Language College Manager Elliott
School)sanferminuk_at_yahoo.es