The Escape Room: An Educational Tool in the CLIL Approach

The Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach is presented as an innovative methodology that integrates content and foreign language learning simultaneously. In this context, educational escape rooms have emerged as an effective proposal that aims to address classroom dynamics by incl...

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Autor: Muñoz Verdú, Elena
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Valladolid
Repositorio:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid
OAI Identifier:oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/80107
Acceso en línea:https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/80107
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:CLIL
Educational escape room
English as a foreign language
Communication
Skills
Cooperative learning
AICLE
Escape room educativo
Inglés como lengua extranjera
Habilidades
Comunicativas
Aprendizaje cooperativo
5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
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Sumario:The Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach is presented as an innovative methodology that integrates content and foreign language learning simultaneously. In this context, educational escape rooms have emerged as an effective proposal that aims to address classroom dynamics by including gamified elements and other methodologies such as cooperative learning and problem-based learning (PBL). In the CLIL approach, specifically, educational escape rooms provide an interactive scenario for students who must solve a series of puzzles, challenges, or activities related to the content covered while reinforcing foreign language learning. For this reason, this dissertation addresses the hypothetical introduction of the educational escape room into the first-year secondary school History curricula following a CLIL approach. This would be accomplished through the creation of a didactic proposal based on the dimensions of life in Ancient Rome: society, politics, economics, art and religion. Through this proposal, students would be immersed in the heart of Rome, where they would encounter a mysterious character whose identity, they would have to reveal by following a series of clues that would lead to the resolution of the final mystery. Thus, the aim of this proposal would be to demonstrate the effectiveness of the educational escape room in the CLIL approach in terms of improving content acquisition in the subject of History and developing communication skills in a foreign language, in this case, English.