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Which question do you propose to someone who read this post to help you with CLIL?

Which aspects do we have to take into account to plan a CLIL lesson? Although planning a lesson requires a lot of time, and the teacher must think in an accurate way and prevent some possible problems students may have; while planning a CLIL lessons, it’s very important to bear in mind the basic language ability and the academic language proficiency in our students’ first language and in the language we want to teach them the contents (the L2).

What is the meaning of CLIL? Contents and language integrated learning. What does it mean? It means that teachers have to teach, for example, science through English. Well, this is what it’s thought, but it’s not 100% true.

If we want to use a CLIL approach, it is important to foster teachers’ motivation. It is my belief that there are still some teachers who don’t feel comfortable about this new pedagogical approach. And I think it is because teaching in a different way is not always easy. Most of teachers have a particular way to teach and if the method and the strategies they use work is not necessary to change them. Despite the fact that innovation may be difficult to accept, as a teacher we have to innovate and adapt ourselves and our methodologies to the social changes. Nowadays English language has a high importance in our society, and by implementing CLIL students will increase their linguistic competence and improve their skills. Personally, I can think about more advantages than drawbacks.

While I was doing the CLIL unit plan I was thinking about the importance of the language demands and the language support we have to consider previously.

When we are teaching using the L2 is useful to know what the students’ skills are (listening, speaking, reading and writing); and we have to plan the activities and have a variety of strategies to face the activity we have planned. Also it would be a good idea to make a list of which problems the students may find while they are doing the activity, and try to give them the best support we can offer to make the activity more understandable and easier. Scaffolding is very important when teaching CLIL.

About the language support we provide our pupils, I think it’s also useful even if we just teach English. Language for learning, language of learning, and language through learning are three items which require a deep thought.

I would like to investigate about Bloom’s Taxonomy, in order to create a list of tasks for each level of the pyramid. So, I would like to get some useful resources about Bloom’s Taxonomy, any kind of web related to this topic will be more than welcome.