CLIL PRINCIPLES

In CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), where learners have to learn the content and the language simultaneously, there are some basic principles that we have identified in order to use them as guidelines for the creation and implementation of the playingCLIL methodology. These main principles are:

4 Cs

CONTENT:
the matter of the subject

COMMUNICATION:
the language learnt and used

COGNITION:
the learning and thinking processes

CULTURE:
the development of intercultural awareness and global citizenship

Types of language

LANGUAGE OF LEARNING:
the language learners will need to access the new knowledge of the subject

LANGUAGE FOR LEARNING:
the language learners will need to use during the lessons

LANGUAGE THROUGH LEARNING:
the language that will ‘emerge’ through the learning process

Cognitive and linguistic demands

They can be either high or low. The combination of both types of demands
and their degrees give different learning contexts in CLIL.

Scaffolding

The process through which the teacher helps the learner get a challenge. Games can be scaffolders of the learning process in CLIL.

Interactional competence
The capacity to recognize and use unwritten rules for interaction in different communication situations and in a specific speech community or culture.