Saturday Morning CLIL with Keith Kelly

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Saturday Morning CLIL with Keith Kelly

• Where are we now?
• keithpkelly_at_yahoo.co.uk

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CLIL Surveys

• Is there a worldwide or Europe survey on the
  outcomes of the CLIL approach?
• Basque trilingual, generally OK (B1 x 3)
• and Ikastolas Private Schools
• Asturias 140 schools, state system,
  non-selective and growing
• Spain David Lasargabaster
• Malaysia 7000 on the streets in March 09

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Bilinguals

• Italians
• French
• Swiss

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Italian - French
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Cognition
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Argumentation
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Text Logic
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Knowing What and How
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CLIL Future?

• Language demands for teachers of content (pre-Uni
  levels of FL)
• Uni pre-service course integration
• Changing role of ELTs (literacy, EAL)
• Better policy at school levels out of necessity
• More books, more resources in shops
• Subject teachers at language conferences

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EAL UK Content Functions
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EAL UK Content Language
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EAL UK Geog1 OUP
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CLIL or not?

• Can CLIL become a threat in countries where the
  native language is not strong? Could CLIL
  eventually lead to the loss of those languages?
• What about the role of language teachers in the
  future of CLIL? Will they be able to work on it
  or is it going to be a content teachers domain?
• Can we try and define what content is? CLIL vs
  ESP?

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CLIL threat to other languages

• Can CLIL become a threat in countries where the
  native language is not strong? Could CLIL
  eventually lead to the loss of those languages?
• Where there is good policy, minority languages
  are given support and equality to majority
  languages.
• Good CLIL practice surely is the best defence a
  minority language can have.
• Other factors lead to disappearance of languages,
  not CLIL.
• Bad CLIL practice will drive itself extinct
  before any minority languages it is seen to
  threaten.

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CLIL threat to ELTs

• What about the role of language teachers in the
  future of CLIL?
• Working more closely with the content curriculum
• Changing perception language learning
• Language learning as needs analysis
• Not less language teachers, different language
  teachers

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Language for learning prep

• Study Group UK (Bellerbys and Embassy Schools)

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CLIL - a content teachers domain?

• Absolutely not!
• Content belongs to content teachers but good
  teaching belongs to the good teacher
• Take what you can get from the content
  curriculum, its all good!

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A Definition of Content

• Can we try and define what content is? CLIL vs
  ESP?
• Identity crisis as a result of exposure to CLIL
• Vygotsky start from the learner, plus
  interaction
• Knowing about the content, the skills and the
  language
• Knowing about how tasks work in class
• Knowing about task design

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Is Literature CLIL?

• If we perform a Shakespearean play, would that be
  considered CLIL?
• If the learners needs are identified and
  supported within the context (the language) of
  the content (the play) and scaffolded in tasks
  which guide input and support output, then yes it
  reflects a CLIL approach.
• But, why call it CLIL?

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ICT in English is that CLIL?

• What if I teach ICT in English? Would that be
  CLIL or ICT being a language itself, it cant be
  considered real CLIL?
• The specificity of the language of a subject
  doesnt exclude it from any approach.
• There is growing interest in CLIL from ESP, EAP,
  why is that?

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Storytelling is that CLIL?

• If we work on narrative texts such as the fairy
  tale for primary school, would that be a CLIL?
• The storybook approach Ellis and Brewster why
  call it CLIL?

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Is CLIL cognitively damaging?

• Are we sure that in CLIL contexts the content is
  acquired as it would be in the native language?
  Is there any evidence of it?
• No, not sure. But this has to be qualified
  (Basque, Scandinavian, Dutch, German,
  Bulgarian-German)
• Middle East, Africa
• Good MT education first

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What is CLIL?

• A springboard for discussing and defining good
  educational practice
• An identity challenge for many teachers
• ELT-perspective v Content-perspective
• Content
• Doing the subject in a foreign language
• ELT
• Start with content, language comes next

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Swiss ELT-CLIL Voices