3.5. Working with texts.

Working with texts. The seven principles of CLIL methodology. The seven principles of CLIL (Coyle, Hood and Marsh, 2010)

According to Coyle, Hood and Marsh, CLIL is built on seven principles (p. 42.)

1. Personalized learning, in other words in addition to acquiring knowledge and skills, learners also create their own knowledge and understanding and develop skills.

2. Before lesson planning and teaching, content should be for its linguistic demands (e.g. vocabulary, set expressions, grammar)

3. Before lesson planning and teaching thinking processes should be analyzed for their linguistic demands (e.g. vocabulary, set expressions, grammar)

4. Language that is related to content (see 2.) and language that is related to thinking processes (see 3.) should be taught to the pupils, together with language that is related to the context. This language has to be transparent and easy to access.

5. Interaction is of key importance in the learning process.

6. Intercultural awareness is of key importance to CLIL.

7. CLIL never stands on its own, but is embedded in the wider context of education. When planning and doing CLIL, these contextual variables should be taken into account.