This document discusses content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and innovation in English primary education classrooms. It notes that teachers should build on students' prior knowledge, learning is cognitive, and there are approaches like communicative and task-based learning. The goal of language learning is communicative competence. Using body language and other strategies can help communicate meaning when language barriers exist. Communicative language teaching is an established approach, and the document hopes to provide tools, activities and examples for implementing CLIL approaches in the classroom.
CLIL & Primary English Classroom Innovation Postgraduate Program
1. Posgrado en CLIL e innovación en el aula
de inglés de Educación Primaria
What I KNOW What I WANT to Know What I LEARNED
•Teachers should base learning on what pupils
already know.
• Learning is a cognitive process.
•There are several approaches to teach la
language such as the Communicative Approach
or Task-Based Learning.
•The main aim when learning a language is to be
communicatively competent.
• There may be a positive transfer or an
interference from the L1 to the L2.
•Pupils should use body language or other
strategies to communicate meaning
(communication of meaning).
•Communicative Language Teaching is an
approach that has been used to teach a
language.
•Tools and activities to implement the
communicative approach.
•Real-life examples of CLIL teachers.
