Vocabulary learning at primary school: comparing EFL and CLIL

Comparative studies on CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) often show an advantage in favor of CLIL vs. non-CLIL students. However, oftentimes studies are difficult to interpret because the hours of instruction between the groups under comparison tend to be quite different. This study focuse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Tragant Mestres, Elsa, Marsol Jornet, Anna, Serrano Serrano, Raquel, Llanes Baró, Àngels
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/163514
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/163514
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ensenyament de llengües
Anglès
Educació primària
Aprenentatge integrat de continguts i llengües estrangeres
Interacció educativa
Language teaching
English language
Primary education
Content and Language Integrated Learning
Interaction analysis in education
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Sumario:Comparative studies on CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) often show an advantage in favor of CLIL vs. non-CLIL students. However, oftentimes studies are difficult to interpret because the hours of instruction between the groups under comparison tend to be quite different. This study focuses on a single group of students (n=22) aged 8 who were exposed to EFL instruction in the Fall term and to CLIL instruction (Science) in the Winter term. The major objectives are to analyse the vocabulary in the materials that were used in class and to examine gains in productive lexical knowledge. Results show that students were exposed to a greater amount of words and to more abstract and technical vocabulary in the CLIL materials and that they made significant progress in vocabulary learning in both contexts. The study also reveals that learning English through Science proved to be a more challenging experience than learning the foreign language in the English class.