ERIC Number: EJ935500
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 3
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0269-2465
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Apprenez la Science en Francais?
Edmonds, Juliet; Jacobs, Pippa
Primary Science, n117 p5-7 Mar-Apr 2011
The authors explain why integrating the teaching of science and French is not as ridiculous as it may at first sound. They describe how this innovative integrated approach works in a primary school in Oxfordshire. The project involves Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). CLIL is a method whereby a curriculum subject is planned and taught partly or fully through the medium of a foreign language. In an evaluation in Canada it was found that a CLIL approach produced an equal or bigger learning gain in both the science and the foreign language than when science was taught in English. Two key principles of CLIL are not to lower the conceptual level of the science studied and to have clearly focused leaning outcomes for the language and the science. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Principles, Language of Instruction, Immersion Programs, Elementary School Science, Science Curriculum, Integrated Curriculum, Educational Practices
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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