CLIL Basics
Language Triptych
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What does CLIL stand for?

Content and Language Integrated Learning

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"The kind of language that is needed to complete a task in a foreign language" describes...

a. Language of learning

b. Language for learning

c. Language through learning

b. Language for learning

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True or False: The Four C's started as theoretical research and eventually became used in classrooms

False

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"CLIL is primarily focused on the content through the usage of another language that is not native to the students" is the definition written by Coyle, Hood, and Marsh (2010). 

False:

"CLIL is a dual-focused educational approach...There is a focus not only on content, and not only on language."

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Key vocabulary, modal verbs for prediction, and future/conditional tenses would all be examples of 

a. Language of learning

b. Language for learning

c. Language through learning

a. Language of learning 

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Which one is NOT one of the 4 C's?

a. coherent

b. cognition

c. content

a. coherent


Communication, content, cognition, culture

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CLIL was first coined during what time period

a. 1980s

b. 1990s

c. 2000s

b. 1990s

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This type of learning is unpredictable because it is done in the moment. 

a. Language of learning

b. Language for learning

c. Language through learning

c. Language through learning

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True or False: The video contains this quote from Doyle.

"The 4 C's are not something that's got to happen every lesson. But, I do think that at the planning stage of a unit or a series of lessons, that's where we have to look."

True

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Which English idiom fits the idea of CLIL interweaving language and content best?

a. Biting the bullet

b. A blessing in disguise

c. Killing two birds with one stone

c. Killing two birds with one stone

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Come up with one example of Language of Learning and Language for Learning that could be used in a CLIL lesson about science

Language of learning -language used by learners to access the basic concepts and skills of the topic

Language for learning - language for completing assigned tasks 

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True or False: Goyle says in the video that "for me, culture must lead the way."

False: 

"for me, content must lead the way." 

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