Reading to Learn in CLIL Subjects

This article presents CLIL teachers with a principled approach to integrating the teaching of content with that of the language of their discipline. First the paper focuses on raising awareness of language, and of the difficulties students experience when reading the abstract language of a subject,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Whittaker, Rachel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:203257
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/203257
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/clil.4
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Reading to learn pedagogy
School genres
Literacy across the curriculum
Gèneres discursius acadèmics
Lectura i escriptura en les àrees del currículum
Reading to learn/llegir per a aprendre
Géneros discursivos académicos
Lectura y escritura en las áreas del currículo
Reading to learn/leer para aprender
Descripción
Sumario:This article presents CLIL teachers with a principled approach to integrating the teaching of content with that of the language of their discipline. First the paper focuses on raising awareness of language, and of the difficulties students experience when reading the abstract language of a subject, by using an example from a CLIL history text from an early secondary class in a school in Spain. It then presents a genre-based programme for working on literacy across the curriculum, Reading to Learn, and describes the different steps a teacher may take to integrate reading and writing into the class activities. The first stage of the programme is illustrated by a CLIL science teacher's introduction of a text to her class, and the final stage, by a text written by a student in the class, showing the result of the teacher's work. In the student text, a science report, we see not only the learning of content but also of the language of the subject. The paper closes with a discussion of the Reading to Learn pedagogy from the perspective of teachers who attended seminars on the method given by the European Comenius project TeL4ELE, and implemented it with their students.