A CLIL Experience Based on the Use of Tasks and Different Genre Types

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  • Ana María Cendoya Author
  • María Verónica Di Bin Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5294/laclil.2010.3.1.2

Abstract

Teaching English in the 21st century poses the challenge of facing and adapting to the new status of the English language as a lingua franca. Accordingly, its teaching methodology and didactics have changed too. It is in this context that a new methodology Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has appeared. This paper aims to point out what the core features of CLIL methodology are and how task-based and genre-based pedagogies can complement it. It then presents the analysis of a classroom experience in order to show how problem solving tasks can help enhance CLIL contexts so that students can develop their linguistic competence as well as their content knowledge in English by means of reading, interpreting, and producing texts of different genre types.

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Author Biographies

Ana María Cendoya

Ana María Cendoya is an EFL teacher (UNLP). She has attended the courses for Maestria en Lingüística (UNLP) and is working on her thesis. She teaches Ingles I (Licenciatura en Turismo), ELT Didactics, and English Diction I at La Plata State University; English Didactics I, II, Written English Language I, III and Curso Formación Básica Prof Ingles at ISFD y T nº 57, and  Oral English Language 4 at ISFD nº 97. She is a teacher trainer in the programme called “Maestros y Profesores enseñando y aprendiendo ingles” for the Ministry of Education of Buenos Aires.

María Verónica Di Bin

Verónica Di Bin is an EFL teacher and sworn translator (UNLP). She has attended the courses for Maestría en Lingüística (UNLP) and is working on her thesis. She teaches Inglés I (Licenciatura en Turismo) and ELT Didactics at La Plata State University and English Didactics and Teaching Practice III at ISFD Nº 97. She has several years of experience teaching in both primary and secondary schools.

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Published

2010-04-30

How to Cite

Cendoya, A. M., & Di Bin, M. V. (2010). A CLIL Experience Based on the Use of Tasks and Different Genre Types. Latin American Journal of Content & Language Integrated Learning, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.5294/laclil.2010.3.1.2

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Research Articles