A Case Study on Teachers' Insights into Their Students' Language and Cognition Development through the Andalusian CLIL Programme

  1. Méndez García, María del Carmen
Journal:
Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras

ISSN: 1697-7467

Year of publication: 2014

Issue: 22

Pages: 23-39

Type: Article

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Abstract

In Spain the progressive enforcement of CLIL programmes in compulsory education marks an unprecedented turning point in FL teaching, a shift particularly significant in monolingual Autonomous communities such as Andalusia. On the basis of the results yielded by a case study conducted in one primary and secondary CLIL schools this paper looks into the evidence to support the claim that language and cognition represent two of the major dimensions inherent in CLIL. The data obtained point to perceptible gains in learners� command of CLIL languages and further cognitive development

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