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What does CLIL stand for?

What does CLIL stand for?. Ginta Lauva-Treide NAF Language School Latvia. Building Curriculum for Content and Language Integrated Learning to and at Higher Proficiency Level. Presentation Outline. Content and Language Integrated Learning Course Objective Length of the Course Curriculum

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What does CLIL stand for?

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  1. What does CLILstand for? Ginta Lauva-TreideNAF Language SchoolLatvia

  2. Building Curriculum for Content and Language Integrated Learningto and at Higher Proficiency Level

  3. Presentation Outline • Content and Language Integrated Learning • Course Objective • Length of the Course • Curriculum • Results & problem areas • Questions

  4. Content and Language Integrated Learning • Learning another content through the medium of a foreign language • Learning a foreign language by studying content-based subject

  5. Assumptions about CLIL • Reading is the most essential skill • Knowledge of the language as the means of learning content • Learning is improved through increased motivation • CLIL is based on language acquisition rather than enforced learning

  6. Where we cannot apply CLIL to our curriculum • Fluency is more important than accuracy and errors are a natural part of language learning. Learners develop fluency in English by using English to communicate for a variety of purposes • Teachers working with CLIL are specialists in their own discipline rather than traditional language teachers • CLIL is long-term learning

  7. Course Objective To provide language training to a mixed group of the military students so that they were able • to study in the Baltic Defense College • to teach in the Baltic Defense College • to serve in Multinational HQ

  8. Level of Students & Length of the Course • Starting Level From SLP 2-1-1-1to SLP 2-2-2-2 • Length of the course: 480 lessons / 12 weeks of training

  9. Curriculum • Reading of Military Texts • Oral Communication • Grammar in Use • Writing

  10. Reading of Military Texts • Globalization and New Type of Threat • Centers of Gravity, Critical Capabilities, Requirements and Vulnerabilities • International and Intergovernmental Organizations • International Military Legislation (Conventions) • International Military Operations and MOOTW • Principles of Effective Media Relations

  11. Oral Communication • Rules of effective communication • Appropriate register • Cohesiveness of speech • Language of meetings • Presentations • Statistics and graphs • Hospitality and etiquette

  12. Grammarin Use • Tenses in active and passive voice • Adjectives and adverbs • Prepositions • Phrasal verbs • Modals • Conditionals and wishes • Reported speech

  13. Writing • Paragraphs • Narration • Description • Formal and informal letters • Reports • Essay writing

  14. Results at the end of the course

  15. Problem areas • One subject (Reading of Military Texts) dominates over the other subjects • Motivation to focus on accuracy • Materials

  16. Thank you very much for your attention • Questions?

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