“Viewing Europe through my two windows”: employing CLIL teaching methodology

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Συγγραφέας: Γεωργοπούλου Θεοδοσίου Αικατερίνη | Κατηγορία Καινοτόμα Προγράμματα | , στις 21-09-2014

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) enables the integration of a subject and a foreign language and is a creative and innovative way of learning languages. It follows European language policies on the promotion and implementation of multilingualism. The CLIL methodology is designed to improve the teaching of language and communication skills, focusing on academic knowledge and skills of investigation, communication and cooperation for the student.

Within this framework, Europe was chosen as a theme in its two dimensions: cultural monuments and natural environment with its problems. The methodology used was based on project-based learning and the application of the  CLIL method (combination of a subject unit with the English language) whereas a wiki page was used to support the products of the project.

The students worked in teams and …

  • “travelled” through Europe using the internet and visited various cultural and natural monuments of the 48 countries. See here their electronic album.
  • painted posters to raise awareness on environmental problems in Europe.

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  •  wrote scenarios about these environmental problems, shared roles and presented their short theatrical plays to the students and teachers of our school on June 5 (World Environment Day).
  • painted  a political and a geophysical map of Europe each.
  • completed a large map of Europe, painting each country with the colours of its flag and wrote the names of the countries in the two languages (Greek and English).

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  • analysed two paintings, one on the culture of Europe and one on the environment with the Perkins method of visible thinking.
  • finally, self-assessed their progress (using questionnaires, their language portfolios and web 2.0 tools) and commented positively on the products of their work.

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The teachers involved in this project were Matoula Vlahou, Catherine Georgopoulou and Maria Mathioudaki.

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