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Bilingual vs. Monolingual Optional Courses in Intensive or Bilingual Schools Prof. Sanda Gabor Gh. Sincai High School

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Page 1: Bilingual vs. Monolingual Optional Courses in Intensive or Bilingual Schools Prof. Sanda Gabor Gh. Sincai High School

Bilingual vs. Monolingual Optional Courses in Intensive

or Bilingual Schools

Prof. Sanda Gabor

Gh. Sincai High School

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International Study ProgrammesLLP Comenius Training Course

Cheltenham July 2010

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CLIL- Content and Language Integrated Learning for teachers who teach History, Geography or

other Arts Subjects

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What is CLIL?

Content and Language Integrated Learning

• Teaching school subjects through English

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Why CLIL?

• Traditional education-gap between language study and other subjects

• Helps students transfer knowledge from one language to another

• Develops CALP

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CALP

• Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency

Fully developed if students acquire in school the ability to understand and express academic information

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BICS

• Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills

More focused upon during language classes

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Different Approaches to CLIL

• Bilingual approach- teaching in English along with the mother tongue (dr. Diana Hicks)

• Immersion- monolingual-teaching in English only(Graham Workman)

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Bilingual Approach

• The medium of teaching- English and mother tongue-Romanian/Hungarian

• It regards subject teachers and language teachersPROBLEMS• Subject teachers not well trained in English• Language teachers not well trained in the subject• Lack of text books-more work for the teacher

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Possible Solutions

• Subject teachers are helped by language teachers in planning the lesson and the syllabus

• The lesson will be in English and in Romanian • The language teacher teaches a familiar

subject at a medium level of information stressing more on language

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British History-CLIL Optional Course

• Aims at improving: Vocabulary Speaking Skills Reading Skills Listening Skills Writing Skills

• Taught by language teacher• Suitable for level B1, B2and A group age 13-19

– For level A Romanian language is used at a rate of 60% of the lesson

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Steps to Take

1. Choose parts of the subject that are attractive and accessible to the group age

2. Use a diversity of teaching methods3. Use electronic as well as traditional

materials4. Set reachable targets

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Vocabulary, Reading and Speaking Lessons

• Strategies

Guess the meaning of the wordLexical associations ChunksLexical chainsReport to class

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Guess the meaning

• Teacher prepares a text to be given to students in which there are several (not more than 3-4) unknown words

• Students are asked to highlight the words they don’t know

• In pairs they are asked to guess what the meaning could be- they are asked to try to explain in English as well as in Romanian

• Plenary-class helped by the teacher find the correct meaning and for a word list

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Lexical Associations

• For specific language students are asked to find similar situations or words in Romanian from Romanian History

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Chunks

• Groups of 2 or more words used together to form meaning

• General chunks• Topical chunks• Students are asked to highlight them with different

colours• Students are asked to arrange them on two columns• Students practice both BICS and CALP

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Lexical chains

• Students arrange the topical chunks in lexical chains to obtain a chain of main events

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Reading Practice Strategies

• Jigsaw Reading

• Reading for specific information

• Gapped text

• Comparing texts and written sources

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Developing Critical Thinking

• Prediction-story analysis

• Comparing assumptions with the real facts

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Speaking Practice

• Dialogue

• Drama

• Comparing events or pictures

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Writing

• Letter writing

• Essay writing

• Article writing

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Use of the Internet

• Short documentaries on youtube create atmosphere and listening opportunities

• Sites selected for individual research

• Games

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Immersion Classes

• Taught only in English• Develop CALP• Students do not transfer terms specific to

their culture properly• Cultural identity might have to lose

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• The presentation was based on materials provided by dr. Diana Hicks and Graham Workman during the Cheltenham Course July 2010

• For specific materials and more information please access www.cetaclil.eu