Early foreign language learning
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Presentación sobre el porqué de la metodologia CLIL.
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Early foreign language learning
- 1. Early foreign language learning Why is it (not) a great idea?
- 2. 1. Presentation about myself 2. Introduction to the topic: We as learners of English 3. The workshop that motivated me to think this idea: Marianne Nikolov and her conditions. 4. Different current methodologies: CLIL 5. Some personal conclusions Sketch
- 3. Presentation
- 5. Mariane Nikolov According to her: ODaily contact OIntrinsic motivation OCognitive challenging
Editor's Notes
- Good morning everyone. As English learner, I ask myself sometimes, what could I have done to learn English before? That idea is living in my mind and it’s related with the topic which I am going to talk about today.
- I’ve organized this short presentation in the next order. First of all, I am going to spend a couple of minutes to present myself and the topic which I am going to talk about. Then, I am going to present the main ideas and finally, I would like to expose my conclusions and give you my personal opinion about the issue.
- Let me introduce myself first as introduction to my topic. I am PE teacher or I would better say that’s my degree. I’ve been working as tutor most of the time. So, I must to train myself with courses about writing, reading and maths methodology because I didn’t feel myself well prepared to teach regular subjects in Primary. It didn’t matter to me because I assume that being teacher is a non-stop learning experience, we have to be open to learn new methods and subjects and introduce innovation in our classes.
- Along the path of teaching and learning, I ended up learning English and I become more interesting in teaching English as well at school. Moreover, nowadays the Department of Education is pushing teachers to introduce English as soon as possible, what means that some schools are teaching English from P3 and there are parents who put their children to private English lessons before they go to school. As teacher, I don’t have enough arguments in favour or against that idea but if I think about my own experience, as you can see I am still trying to learn English. So, I have my doubts. For all this reasons, I looked for courses and lectures to know more about the issue. I’ve started some training courses in CLIL methodology and thankfully, I found an interesting lecture which I attended two years ago. The title’s lecture was Early English foreign language learning. Apart from being teacher, there is another fact that we all have in common: we are learning English as adults. So, it also means that whatever learning experience we previously had, we failed. Now, I am involved in this kind of debate. On one hand, as a mother I would like to provide to my son all the best opportunities to learn English. On the other hand as teacher I am feeling lot of pressure to do regular subjects in English and I am still not sure about it . For this reason, I attended to an interesting lecture on November, 2 weeks before my son was born.
- The lector was Marianne Nikolov, from Hungary. I started to listen with the strong conviction that I was on the verge to finally find lot of reasons to teach English at school from P3 to 6th graders. Even more, I was sure that I could convince all my mates after listening Miss Nikolov that teaching English from P3 is the best option ever. Marianne Nikolov is a very experienced professor who has studied how people from different ages learn a foreign language. Lot of ideas came out in this workshop but I will show you which the most important one was. She said: There is not an ideal age to learn a foreign language but a series of conditions. I found it very helpful and logical. Which are these conditions according to her? 1st.: The first one: Daily contact with English through friends contact, family…whatever in order to use it in real context. 2nd: Intrinsic motivation. 3rd.:Cognition challenge. It should be challenging in terms of cognition.
- Because not everyone has a parent who talks English and neither enough money to send their children abroad, innovational teachers at school had created these ideal conditions through CLIL methodology. As you may know, CLIL methodology consists on teach English and Content at the same level, which allows students from different ages to learn English in a real context through PE, art and crafts, science or even maths. Miss Nikolov also gave her opinion about CLIL methodology and she suggested that is a very good option to teach English as a foreign language. Although, she insisted on be aware to preserve these important conditions I have told you about: perfect model, motivation, cognitive challenging. She also added that’s better not to translate. The words, expressions and idioms in a new language have their own meaning, she said.
- Finally, my conclusions. After having listen Mrs. Nikolov it seems pretty clear to me why I did not learn English at school. But I am not completely convinced if our students or ours daughters and sons are going to. The Department of Education must put more resources to allow teachers achieve an advanced level of English instead of forcing us to do CLIL classes without having * a good command of methodology neither of English language. That’s the end of my presentation. Thank you for listening. * idea how to do it properly and not being the best models to our students.