Using effective clasroom questions in CLIL lessons
Menegale, Marcella
Grup LIEC (Llengua i Ensenyament de les Ciències)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Università degli studi Ca'Foscari di Venezia
Trobada sobre semi-immersió a Catalunya (3a : 2009 : Barcelona, Catalunya)
Taula rodona internacional sobre programes AICLE (1a : 2009 : Barcelona, Catalunya)

Additional title:	L'emploi de questions efficaces pour augmenter l'interaction ebtre enseignent et élèves dans les leçons CLIC
Date:	2009
Abstract:	My paper is drawn from a study on oral foreign language produced by students in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classes in Italy. The aim of the study was to investigate teacher-students' interaction during traditional teacher-fronted lessons in order to explore the possibility of a methodological change towards the implementation of student-centred lessons which promote noteworthy oral interaction by students themselves. Convinced of the importance of using referential questions instead of display questions to push students to use FL as a vehicle of content transmission, I thus observed CLIL-based lessons and analysed data about the types of questions asked by the teachers and the quantity of interaction they produced. In general, students' oral production has proved to be exceedingly low, regardless of their level of competence in the foreign language or of the content processed. One of the main reasons for the lack of opportunities to practise and improve their speaking skills was that lessons observed were usually teacher-led rather than student-centred: teachers spoke for the most of the lesson time (even over 90%) and students did not appear to find a reason to intervene. In fact, this is what usually happens in all classrooms for the majority of the time. Furthermore, when students are required to interact, it is usually to give predetermined answers to some (often insignificant) display questions. My paper concludes exploring ways in which questioning can be used not only as a means to promoting learning in CLIL contexts but also as a means to enhancing students' participation and, as a result, their oral production. I will finally propose some questioning techniques which can facilitate students' learning process, can sustain the development on higher cognitive-thinking skills and enhance meaningful oral production.
Note:	III Colloquium on Semi-Immersion in Catalonia
Note:	III Encuentro sobre Semi-Inmersión en Cataluña
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Contribució a congrés
Subject:	Semiimmersió ; Semiinmersión ; Semiimmersion ; Immersió ; Inmersión ; AICLE ; CLIL ; GREIP ; CLIL-SI ; ICE UAB ; Integració ; Integración ; Integration ; Bilingüisme ; Bilingüismo ; Bilingualism ; Plurilingüisme ; Plurilingüismo ; Plurilingualism ; Multilingüisme ; Multilingüismo ; Multilingualism ; Educació plurilingüe ; Educación plurilingüe ; Plurilingual education ; Ensenyament de llengües ; Enseñanza de lenguas ; Language teaching ; Llengua estrangera ; Lengua extranjera ; Foreign language ; Segona llengua ; Aprenentatge de llengües ; Segunda lengua ; Second language ; Adquisició de llengües ; Aprendizaje de lenguas ; Language learning ; Didàctica de la llengua ; Adquisición de lenguas ; Language acquisition ; TEFL ; Didàctica ; Didáctica de la lengua ; Didáctica ; Language pedagogy ; Formació del professorat de llengua ; Formación del profesorado de lengua ; Teacher Education ; Teacher Training
Published in:	Trobada sobre semi-immersió a Catalunya. Barcelona, Catalunya, 3a : 2009 Taula rodona internacional sobre programes AICLE. Barcelona, Catalunya, 1a : 2009

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