Voices

VOICES Our CLIL project 2010-2013

Why a CLIL project?
The main aim of the project is to improve the academic and professional results of our students using English to learn non-linguistic subjects.

How boys feel about English
15 year old boys studying in Enric Borràs think that the most useful subjects are English and Maths

How girls feel about English
15 year old girls studying in Enric Borràs think that the most useful subjects are English and Maths

Good news !!!
Our students think English is useful
In the picture, students participating in a test to choose our representatives to the English Competition for Catalan Schools (THE FONIX)

Not so good…
Half of the students don’t like English, which means no interest, no motivation, no effort… no learning.

Students like …

Why not doing these things in English?

What subjects?
Art (elective subject, 4th ESO)
Mathematics : My first visit to Maths in English (elective subject, 3rd/4th ESO)
Technology (workshop practice, 1st, 2nd or 3rd ESO)
Science (laboratory practice, 1st, 2nd or 3rd ESO)
History : History books and historic cinema (elective subject 1st/2nd ESO)

What we want to achieve
To improve the communicative competence of the students.
To increase the motivation and the interest of the students to learn English in real situations where they need to use the foreign language.
To use the spoken language in all the classroom interactions: teacher-student, student-teacher, student-student.
To use all the available ICT tools for searching, editing and producing information and for the communication between teacher and student and between students.
To use the foreign language to learn the content of non-linguistic subjects.

How many teachers ?
English: 2 teachers
Art: 1 teacher
Mathematics: 1 teacher
Technology: 3 teachers
Science: 2 teachers
History: 1 teacher

How many students? In 2010-2011:
1st ESO: 120 students (5 groups) have 1 of the 2 hours of Technology in English.
4th ESO: 20 students of Art (elective subject). There are two groups of Art, one in Catalan and the other in English.
4th ESO: 20 students of 4B (low level group) have learnt a part of the Mathematics (Statistics) in English.

What teachers have learnt
We have learnt that you don’t have to be an expert to use technology.
Students know a lot about technology. Why not to use their knowledge?

Teachers of English and teachers of other subjects have learnt to work as a cooperative team.
We need to do it!!!

We need to prepare activities to make students think, speak and learn.
More student talk, less teacher talk.

What students can do in English. Some examples:
http://threecenglish.blogspot.com/search/label/Juan%20Cristodulaquis
http://yeswewrite.blogspot.com/search/label/David%20Paez
http://www.slideshare.net/teresateacher/slvia-and-natia-in-london
http://wegotolondon.blogspot.com/

Voices

by teresateacher on Mar 20, 2011

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