MODULE 1

Hi guys!

This is my first post about how I feel learning CLIL methodology. During a month I am going to upload resources and opinions about my experience doing this course.

Hope you find useful materials and, if you want, you can leave a comment -I will be really happy to know your opinions!



1. The SWOT analysis about CLIL.

STRENGTHS	WEAKNESSES
·  Let us work about specific vocabulary in English. ·  Students can improve their linguistic competence. ·  Students’ motivation to learn using this methodology is high: they are using English to learn real contents –not just grammar.	·  CLIL methodology needs a teacher with double qualification: the language and the content. ·  It needs a rich learning environment to boost students’ learning. ·   It needs many hours to let students internalize new contents in a foreign language.
OPPORTUNITIES	THREATS
·  Students will be competent in contents in a second language. ·  Students will be fluent in English and they could understand this language as a useful way to do many things in their lives (study in another country, travel...). · Students can compete in global world.	· CLIL teachers must know how to develop the curriculum using CLIL methodology. · The importance to make sure all teachers in school understands that CLIL is not a methodology to favouring languages at the expense of the non-language subject. ·  The difficulty to make people understand that CLIL methodology is not an additional subject teaching: is just a methodology.

2. My unit plan:

You can find my Planning about Our class' name: Lions and Lionesses following this link: http://www.slideshare.net/secret/6aQmfYgj1VcR5

3. My personal thought:

⇨ To overcome this module I have read lots of materials related with how to develop a didactic unit using CLIL methodolgy.

⇨ I found some difficulties in law aspects: it isn't so easy translate competences and abilities from our Catalan/Spanish curriculum to English, because if you try to do it literally the meaning probably is going to change.

⇨ I would like to investigate a bit more about how to integrate all subjects of the curriculum in a project; I mean, how to develop a didactic unit in a interdisciplinary way.

⇨ My question is: Did you find my unit plan useful? Which items you will change to make it better?



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