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CLIL Vocabulary
CLIL Basic Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| CLIL | Content Language Integrated Learning |
| Additional language(s) | Any language other than the first or home language or mother tongue |
| BICS | Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills |
| CALP | Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency |
| Hard CLIL | A type of partial immersion when almost half of the curriculum or more is taught in a non-native language |
| Learning outcomes | What most learners will be able to know by the end of a lesson, a unit orcourse. Sometimes also referred to as learning objectives |
| Metacognition | Thinking about how we think, how we build knowledge; how we learn; how we use strategies to learn |
| Multi(-)media | The combined use of media in the classroom. It can be text, image, video, music and digital media. |
| Multimedia tools | They are digital cameras, tablets, CDs, data-projectors and interactive whiteboards (IWBs). |
| Soft CLIL | When only some topics from the curriculum are taught in a non-native language |
| Language showers | Regular, short, continuous exposure to CLIL delivered in the target language for 15 or 30 minutes several times a week |
| Medium of instruction | Language used as medium for school learning |
| Target language: | The CLIL language |
| Code switching | Using first language and the target language together while communicating |
| Cognition/ cognitive skills | thinking skills |
| Scaffolding | Activities that support pupils in carrying out activities and helps them to solve problems |
| STT | Student talking time |
| TTT | Teacher talking time |
| The 4Cs | Content, communication, cognition and culture |
| Needs analysis | A type of assessment often done at the start of a course which relates to what learners want to learn |