An Internet guide of interactive resources for CLIL teachers published by Carmen Mellado Álvarez

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Curriculum Definition | Education.com Curriculum refers to the means and materials with which students will interact for the purpose of achieving identified educational outcomes. Arising in medieval Europe was the trivium, an educational curriculum based upon the study of grammar, rhetoric, and logic. The later quadrivium (referring to four subjects rather than three as represented by the trivium) emphasized the study of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. These seven liberal arts should sound a lot like what you experienced during your formal education. The emphasis on single subjects persists even today. Some educators would say that the curriculum consists of all the planned experiences that the school offers as part of its educational responsibility. Another perspective suggests that curriculum involves organized rather than planned experiences because any event must flow of its own accord, the outcome not being certain beforehand. Which brings us to the notion of emphasizing outcomes versus experiences.

CLIL as a source of hidden benefits towards the progress of Education : A review paper by Kleio Ngao | K. Noga - Academia.edu Noga 4 need to adapt to a harder job instead: discerning among the irrelevant what is useful for us(Ting 2010). This opinion is shared, among many, by Aini-Kristiina Jäppinen from the University of Jyväskylä as well. She set out to answer an interesting question about teaching through CLIL in her research: how does using a foreign language as a learning tool promote knowledge formation and “enabling” (2006). But, that being one of the most important general, instead of hidden, benefits that emerge through CLIL, I will be elaborating on her findings later on. Contribution of Multilingualism to Creativity for the European Commission. 2.2. In her paper on teaching science through English, Ting mentions that [n]ot only is FL-communicative competence an obvious requisite for professional success in today’s globalised economy, it is a necessary ingredient for tolerance and multiculturalism”(2010).