The necessity to educate multilingual and multicultural citizens has created the dire need to exp... more The necessity to educate multilingual and multicultural citizens has created the dire need to explore new teaching methodologies that can ensure the learners' command of foreign languages. Content Language Integrated Learning is an innovative method of teaching whereby language is used as a tool for learning both the content of a subject of the school curriculum and the language itself. Although CLIL is not a new trend in Europe, in Greece only in the past few years have some attempts been made to implement it in schools on an experimental basis. The present study examines the potential of CLIL in the development of the speaking skills of students in the sixth grade of Primary School. Given the complexity of the speaking skill, it is difficult to find ways to explore and assess the learners' oral production on the basis of valid and reliable criteria. Hence, both quantitative and qualitative methods of research are employed in order to provide data for the analysis and interpretation of the results. The assessment criteria of the speaking tests of the national certificate of competence in foreign languages were applied. Observation, of the CLIL lessons, and a questionnaire investigating the students' attitude to the approach, were also applied. The findings, of this research, show the effectiveness of CLIL in the speaking skills of students, as well as their favorable attitude to the new teaching approach.
The necessity to educate multilingual and multicultural citizens has created the dire need to exp... more The necessity to educate multilingual and multicultural citizens has created the dire need to explore new teaching methodologies that can ensure the learners' command of foreign languages. Content Language Integrated Learning is an innovative method of teaching whereby language is used as a tool for learning both the content of a subject of the school curriculum and the language itself. Although CLIL is not a new trend in Europe, in Greece only in the past few years have some attempts been made to implement it in schools on an experimental basis. The present study examines the potential of CLIL in the development of the speaking skills of students in the sixth grade of Primary School. Given the complexity of the speaking skill, it is difficult to find ways to explore and assess the learners' oral production on the basis of valid and reliable criteria. Hence, both quantitative and qualitative methods of research are employed in order to provide data for the analysis and interpretation of the results. The assessment criteria of the speaking tests of the national certificate of competence in foreign languages were applied. Observation, of the CLIL lessons, and a questionnaire investigating the students' attitude to the approach, were also applied. The findings, of this research, show the effectiveness of CLIL in the speaking skills of students, as well as their favorable attitude to the new teaching approach.
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