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Web-Based Frameworks for CLIL in Primary School: Design, Implementation, Pilot Experimentation and Results

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Computers Supported Education (CSEDU 2016)

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Abstract

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an immersive pedagogical approach where the learners’ foreign language represents the medium of classroom instruction. In this paper we will discuss its applicability to primary school, addressing children aged between 6 and 7. Such an approach, relatively novel due to the young age of students, requires ad hoc pedagogical methods, learning resources and multimedia interactive interfaces in order to foster bilingualism and – potentially – even multilingualism. This work will cover all the aspects involved, starting from an overview of the state of the art, defining the research questions, describing the design and implementation of suitable Web solutions, showing a pilot experimentation, and finally discussing the obtained results.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This paper in an extension of a work presented at the CSEDU 2016 conference. For further details, please refer to [7].

  2. 2.

    In the following, we will extend the concept of input to other aspects of our proposal, such as multimedia and digital skills.

  3. 3.

    http://languages.dk/clil4u/index.html.

  4. 4.

    http://www.britishcouncil.org/europe/our-work-in-europe/content-and-language-integrated-learning-clil.

  5. 5.

    A W3C-compliant application can be virtually run on desktop computers, tablets, interactive whiteboards, smartphones, and – in general – any network-connected device equipped with an HTML5 browser.

  6. 6.

    Please note that a strict interpretation of CLIL would forbid the use of students’ mother tongue during lessons.

  7. 7.

    http://emipiu.di.unimi.it.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the staff of the Istituto comprensivo Mahatma Gandhi, Trezzano Rosa, Italy. Special thanks to the school director, Gabriella Sesana, who approved and encouraged our pilot study. This project has been partially funded by the Università degli Studi di Milano.

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    Luca A. Ludovico

  2. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell’Ateneo Nuovo, 1, 20126, Milano, Italy

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Ludovico, L.A., Zambelli, C. (2017). Web-Based Frameworks for CLIL in Primary School: Design, Implementation, Pilot Experimentation and Results. In: Costagliola, G., Uhomoibhi, J., Zvacek, S., McLaren, B. (eds) Computers Supported Education. CSEDU 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 739. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63184-4_8

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