1. Getting ready for CLIL
Empowerment program

2. Activity 1. Mind map of
the research article
• Divide the paper in the group.
• Establish the main factors of the
paper.
• Summarize what you perceive as
the main items of the paper.
• Present the map

3. Activity 2
Last class description:
identify all the
components of the
class

4. The essence of CLIL
• Creating connections between learners’ lives
and the content being taught in school;
• Learners will co-construct their understanding
and learning.
• “Learners learn to use the language and use
the language to learn”
• CLIL recreates the conditions to which young
children are exposed when they learn their
first language.

5. CLIL environment
• It makes a child’s language-learning
potential work by providing:
 Rich INPUT
 Opportunities for rich INTAKE and
OUTPUT
BUT: not all INPUT becomes INTAKE
CONSEQUENCE: limited
opprotunities for output and learning
will be HINDERED

6. What is and isn’t unique about CLIL?
 Although CLIL is a new approach , it fits into
the parametres of national or regional
curriculum;
 It is a new approach that seeks to enrich the
learning enviroment;
It requieres a co-operation and skills
exchange among language and content
teachers;
It requieres a colective agreement on
common teaching strategies and students
learning activities;
 An essencial step in CLIL implementation:
Interdiciplinary fusion

7. Core-features of CLIL
methodology
• These are essencial elements of
good practice in CLIL and in
education in general;
• These strategies support the
successful deliver of CLIL lessons.

8. MULTIPLE FOCUS
SAFE AND ENRICHING ENVIROMENT
AUTHENTICITY
ACTIVE LEARNING
SCAFFOLDING
CO-OPERATION

9. What drives the core-features?
• THINKING drives the teaching/learning
process;
• COGNITION drives the good CLIL
practice.
THINKING = COGNITION
It is the mental faculty of knowing which includes:
 Perceiving
 Recognizing
 Judging
 Reasoning
 Conceiving
 imagining

10. CLIL GOALS
The holistic development of learners;
To guide students towards
becoming capable and motivated;
To form independent students
To put the focus on SUBSTANCE
Not only provide with new
information but also permit the
connection between that new
information and the existing
knowldge, skills and attitudes.

11. CLIL MODEL
MEANING-MAKING is both a
personal and social process
(COMUNITY)
The new knowledge and skills
develop through:
Personal and cooperative
reflection (COGNITION)
A communicative process
(COMMUNICATION)

12. THE FOUR PRINCIPLES
• These principles can serve as a
reference point for lessons
planning
• They contribute to successful
outcomes
COGNITION
COMMUNITY – CONTENT - COMMUNICATION

13. How does CLIL work for
students?
CLIL classes work:
To create life experiences;
To tap into the innate
language learning ability we all
have.
Communication and learning
take place in the CLIL
language

14. CLIL lessons around the
world
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=uAJSzSTUNT0&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J-
s_OCc8zw&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=RYsG52Vw5do&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=KsSGFsgWNVg&feature=related

15. Sources
• Book: “Uncovering CLIL”,by
Peter Mehisto, Maria-Jesus
Frigols, and David Marsh.
(Chapter 2: Getting ready for
CLIL)
• Youtube lessons