CLIL method

CLIL stands for

• Creative Learning Instruction for Language

• Communicative Language Integral Learning

• Content and Language Integrated Learning

• Content Learning Integral Language

The process of breaking lessons into manageable units (or chunks), with the teacher providing decreasing levels of support as students grasp new concepts and master new skills is called...

• Planning

• Progressive interaction

• Students' autonomy

• Scaffolding

In CLIL, the teacher must provide every piece of new information for students to learn it by heart during drill exercises, so they can repeat it back verbatim in a test.

• True

• False

When using CLIL in an English classroom, we need to have the students' first language as a tool to assist in the process of Learning the foreign language. It cannot be done in the Target Language, because the students are not fluent in it. (Target language: The one that is aimed to be learnt)

• Definitely. They need to learn the language before they can produce anything or try to communicate with it.

• Not at all. The Target language is used to learn as well as to communicate.

The 4 Cs stand for...

• Communication, Content, Cognition, and Culture

• Communication, Culture, Context, and Cognition

• Community, Culture, Content and Context

• Community, Communication, Cognition, and Culture

According to CLIL, students need to master the Foreign Language regarding grammar, syntax, and all the linguistic aspects, before they can start using their higher order thinking skills and communicate in the foreign language.

• No, they need to work on developing the higher order thinking skills while they learn the language as well.

• Yes, or course, or else the risk is not having a successful experience for neither the language development or the higher order thinking skills.

In a CLIL lesson, I need to have ___________ and ____________ as input at first, to give students the tools to be able to produce anything in the foreign language

• Listening and reading
• writing and speaking

• dictionaries and thesaurus

• a plan they made for what they are going to do in the class.

Which element of a successful CLIL lesson does "developing thinking skills which link concept formation (abstract and concrete), understanding, and language" correspond to:

• Communication

• Culture

• Content

• Cognition

What would a CLIL classroom look like? (Select all that apply for you)

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Fostering students' interaction is key for developing authentic communication and having students learn in a CLIL lesson.

• Yeah, maracuyeah.

• Nay, nay.