Awareness and Use of CLIL in ELT in Lower Primary Education

master's thesis

• Author: Marta Travica
• Mentor: Ivana Cindrić (mentor)
• Committee member: Alenka Mikulec (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Silvija Hanžić Deda (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Ivana Cindrić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Teacher Education; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2022-07-13, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies; Teaching Methods in the Humanistic Sciences

Abstract

Content and Language Learning (CLIL) is a relatively new approach in teaching language
through the medium of content, and vice versa. It has been popularized due to a number of
plurilingual educational contexts that have emerged in Europe over the past years. CLIL finds
its roots in Communicative Language Teaching, an approach that centers around
communicative language competence, which is a one of the central domains of the Croatian
national curriculum.
The central questions of this master thesis are what aspects of CLIL are already being taught
in Croatian classrooms and to what degree. Due to CLIL methodology being flexible and
sharing many aspects with other approaches taught in the EFL methodology at a university
level, it was expected for teachers to be somewhat familiar with some aspects of CLIL. It was
found that a great number of sampled teachers have heard of it and are using (some) aspects
of CLIL in their classrooms. Furthermore, almost all participants of the survey believed that
CLIL could be applied to their classrooms. According to the survey, if offered more support,
there could be a number of teachers interested in participating in CLIL type provisions.

Abstract (english)

Integrirano učenje sadržaja i jezika (na engleskom skraćeno CLIL) je relativno novi pristup
poučavanju jezika kroz sadržaj i obratno. Postao je popularan zbog velikog broja višejezičnih
obrazovnih konteksta koji su se pojavili u Europi u zadnjih nekoliko godina. CLIL pronalazi
svoje korijene u komunikacijskoj nastavi stranoga jezika, pristupu koji se bazira na
komunikacijskoj jezičnoj kompetenciji, koja je jedna od središnjih domena hrvatskog
nacionalnog kurikuluma.
Glavna pitanja ovog diplomskog rada su- koji se aspekti CLIL-a već poučavaju u hrvatskim
učionicama i u kojoj mjeri. Budući da je CLIL metodologija fleksibilna i dijeli mnoge aspekte
s drugim nastavnim pristupima koji se poučavaju u metodologiji engleskog jezika na
sveučilišnoj razini, očekivalo se da će nastavnici biti donekle upoznati s nekim aspektima
CLIL-a. Utvrđeno je da je velik broj nastavnika iz uzetog uzorka čuo za CLIL i da koristi
(neke) aspekte CLIL-a u svojoj nastavi. Nadalje, gotovo svi sudionici istraživanja vjerovali su
da se CLIL može primijeniti u njihovoj nastavi. Prema anketi, ako bi se ponudila veća
podrška učiteljima, mogao bi postojati određeni broj nastavnika zainteresiranih za
sudjelovanje u poučavanju kroz CLIL.

• Keywords: CLIL; foreign language learning; English as a foreign language; multilingual approaches
• Keywords (english): CLIL; učenje stranoga jezika; engleski kao strani jezik; višejezični pristupi
• Language: english
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:147:710821
• Study programme: Title: Integrated undergraduated university study with english language and german language; specializations in: English language, Deutsche sprache; Course: English language; Study programme type: university; Study level: integrated undergraduate and graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra primarnog obrazovanja (magistar/magistra primarnog obrazovanja)
• Type of resource: Text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2022-07-27 07:52:54