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Underlying principles
The principles behind Content and Language Integrated Learning include global statements such as 'all teachers are teachers of language' (The Bullock Report - A Language for Life, 1975) to the wide-ranging advantages of cross-curricular bilingual teaching in statements from the Content and Language Integrated Project (CLIP). The benefits of CLIL may be seen in terms of cultural awareness, internationalisation, language competence, preparation for both study and working life, and increased motivation.

While CLIL may be the best-fit methodology for language teaching and learning in a multilingual Europe, the literature suggests that there remains a dearth of CLIL-type materials, and a lack of teacher training programmes to prepare both language and subject teachers for CLIL teaching. The theory may be solid, but questions remain about how theory translates into classroom practice.

Classroom principles
Some of the basic principles of CLIL are that in the CLIL classroom:

Language is used to learn as well as to communicate

It is the subject matter which determines the language needed to learn.

Content - Progression in knowledge, skills and understanding related to specific elements of a defined curriculum

Communication - Using language to learn whilst learning to use language

Listening is a normal input activity, vital for language learning

Reading, using meaningful material, is the major source of input

Integrate language and skills, and receptive and productive skills

Lessons are often based on reading or listening texts / passages

The language focus in a lesson does not consider structural grading

Listen and label a diagram/picture/map/graph/chart

Listen and fill in a table

Question loops - questions and answers, terms and definitions, halves of sentences

Information gap activities with a question sheet to support

Trivia search - 'things you know' and 'things you want to know'
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Class surveys using questionnaires

20 Questions - provide language support frame for questions

Students present information from a visual using a language support handout.

Listen and make notes on specific information (dates, figures, times)

Listen and reorder information

Listen and identify location/speakers/places

Listen and label the stages of a process/instructions/sequences of a text

Listen and fill in the gaps in a text

Language is functional and dictated by the context of the subject

Language is approached lexically rather than grammatically

Learner styles are taken into account in task types.

Speaking focuses on fluency. Accuracy is seen as subordinate

Writing is a series of lexical activities through which grammar is recycled.

Cognition - Developing thinking skills which link concept formation (abstract and concrete), understanding and language

Culture - Exposure to alternative perspectives and shared understandings, which deepen awareness of otherness and self.

A CLIL lesson is therefore not a language lesson neither is it a subject lesson transmitted in a foreign language. According to the 4Cs curriculum (Coyle 1999), a successful CLIL lesson should combine elements of the following:

In a CLIL lesson, all four language skills should be combined. The skills are seen thus:

For teachers from an ELT background, CLIL lessons exhibit the following characteristics:

In many ways, then, a CLIL lesson is similar to an ELT integrated skills lesson, except that it includes exploration of language, is delivered by a teacher versed in CLIL methodology and is based on material directly related to a content-based subject. Both content and language are explored in a CLIL lesson. A CLIL 'approach' is not far removed from humanistic, communicative and lexical approaches in ELT, and aims to guide language
processing and supports language production in the same way that an ELT course would by teaching techniques for exploiting reading or listening texts and structures for supporting spoken or written language.

Lesson framework
A CLIL lesson looks at content and language in equal measure, and often follows a four-stage framework.

Processing the text
The best texts are those accompanied by illustrations so that learners can visualise what they are reading. When working in a foreign language, learners need structural markers in texts to help them find their way
through the content. These markers may be linguistic (headings, sub-headings) and/or diagrammatic. Once a 'core knowledge' has been identified, the organisation of the text can be analysed.

Identification and organisation of knowledge
Texts are often represented diagrammatically. These structures are known as 'ideational frameworks' or 'diagrams of thinking', and are used to help learners categorise the ideas and information in a text. Diagram types include tree diagrams for classification, groups, hierarchies, flow diagrams and timelines for sequenced thinking such as instructions and historical information, tabular diagrams describing people and places, and combinations of these. The structure of the text is used to facilitate learning and the creation of activities which focus on both language development and core content knowledge.

Language identification
Learners are expected to be able to reproduce the core of the text in their own words. Since learners will need to use both simple and more complex language, there is no grading of language involved, but it is a good idea for the teacher to highlight useful language in the text and to categorise it according to function. Learners may need the language of comparison and contrast, location or describing a process, but may also need certain discourse markers, adverb phrases or prepositional phrases. Collocations, semi-fixed expressions and set phrases may also be given attention as well as subject-specific and academic vocabulary.

Tasks for students
There is little difference in task-type between a CLIL lesson and a skills-based ELT lesson. A variety of tasks should be provided, taking into account the learning purpose and learner styles and preferences. Receptive skill activities are of the 'read/listen and do' genre. A menu of listening activities might be:

Tasks designed for production need to be subject-orientated, so that both content and language are recycled. Since content is to be focused on, more language support than usual in an ELT lesson may be required.
Typical speaking activities include:

Conclusion
From a language point of view the CLIL 'approach' contains nothing new to the EL teacher. CLIL aims to guide language processing and 'support language production in the same way as ELT by teaching strategies for
reading and listening and structures and lexis for spoken or written language. What is different is that the language teacher is also the subject teacher, or that the subject teacher is also able to exploit opportunities for
developing language skills. This is the essence of the CLIL teacher training issue.

Further reading
Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching - www.factworld.info/
Comenius Project TL2L - www.tl2l.nl/
European Centre for Modern Languages - www.ecml.at/
Norwich Institute for Language Education - www.nile-elt.com
Science Across the Curriculum - www.scienceacross.org
EuroCLIC - www.euroclic.org
The National Centre for Languages (CILT) - www.cilt.org.uk
Content and Language Integrated Project (CLIP) - www.cilt.org.uk/clip/

Steve Darn, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey

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The phonemic chart contains the 44 sounds of spoken English. It is an excellent tool for both learning and teaching about English pronunciation, but there is no easy way to type the phonemes with a normal keyboard. Use this site to "type" the characters by clicking with your mouse. You can then copy and paste to your software of choice, or even export the characters as an image using the save as image button.

Email: info@phonemicchart.com

Type in phonemic characters

1. Click on the symbols with your mouse to spell out your word.

2. Copy them from the textfield below.

3. If using Word or another word processor, select a unicode font : usually Gentium, Arial Unicode MS or Lucida Sans Unicode.

4. Paste into your software.

You can also save your word as a png image file (click save as image).

Transcribe words to and from phonetics

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Looking for extra CLIL material to build on the topics in New Inspiration? Looking for web-based CLIL worksheets which encourage students to research information online? The following bespoke CLIL worksheets are linked to every two units of the New Inspiration Student's Books and provide additional practice to the CLIL lessons in the Workbook.

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Teaching English pronunciation can be a challenging task. Help your English students master those tricky words using our pronunciation resources including teaching tips, apps, interactive phonemic charts, recordings of past webinars and our excellent series of pronunciation videos with Adrian Underhill.

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Phonics - the fastest way to learn to read

If you're wanting a quick online review of the phonics sounds, then check out the table below.
(Best viewed on a Mac or PC to get the sounds as well as pictures)

Then ....

Teach your children to read in 7 hours or less with the full Genki Phonics Course!

It sounds complicated, but Genki Phonics is easy. This is the method that was researched by Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
*If you already have the Genki English Teacher's Set, you can download the posters here.
These posters are fully guaranteed. If they don't help your child/children to read, just send me an email and I'll give you a full refund.

As you can see I'm pretty confident in how well they work. 🙂

+ NEW: For a limited time only, there are original, super fun Phonics stories included with the pdf package above.

You may also like this more detailed video from my phonics workshops:

Here's a quick run down of all the phonics gestures:

Using Phonics to teach Writing?

And if you want to introduce writing as well, this is the video to teach phonics in longer lessons with writing.

(This video is in Japanese but I put up English subtitles for you too.)

All 7 pdf workbooks featured in the video, featuring all the writing practice, are also included in the digital Genki Phonics Pack.

Contains all the Genki Phonics pdf workbooks for all the sounds of English.

+ The pdf Genki Phonics posters & stories.

As with the posters above, these workbooks too are fully guaranteed.

If they don't help your child/children to read, just send me an email and I'll give you a full refund.
* Teachers: If you're not a VIP Member of Genki English yet you can get the Teacher's Set and then download the workbook here.
A printable pdf version of the phonics review is included in the digital Genki Phonics Pack along with the Posters, Stories & Workbook above.

Below we also have some online phonics games for use after the course above: Which game can you do the fastest?

(Again these games only work on PCs or Macs. Apple won't let these ones run on the iPhone or iPad!)

The idea of phonics is that you teach your students the various English sounds, then the letters they correspond to. The advantage of this over simply teaching the alphabet is that once they have mastered the main sounds, they can then read many English words.

On this page you'll find the full Genki Phonics posters course and some online practice games. So tell your students about this page so they can practise at home, it's a great way to show parents how well you are teaching them in class!

With the phonics posters the children will automatically get the correct sounds, but for parents and teachers you can simply click the sounds at the top of this page to hear how they should sound.

You have the vowels, the consonants and several "blend" and "combination" sounds where consonants are used together. Move your mouse over the sounds to hear them pronounced, or click on the pictures to hear them.

Most areas of the world pronounce consonants in the same way, however regional accents appear in the vowel sounds. New Yorkers have different vowels from Texans, Londoners are different from Glaswegians. When you teach, choose one, but make sure the kids also know there are many variations.

The games on here are great as the time limits really make sure the kids start listening and not just looking at the letters (hence why kids will always beat adults!). The pronunciation has no strange accents and above all they are fiendishly addictive games!

Here are a few extra tips and tricks for teachers:

Let your students have a go and see how they get on!

If you have any comments or questions I'd like to hear them, please get in touch.

And if you have any friends who you think would like this page, please tell them about www.GenkiPhonics.com

And let's get started with the pdf Genki Phonics Pack:

1. Simple one page "Teach your child to read in 7 hours or less" pdf Phonics Posters covering all the sounds of English.

2. "I can read it!" Genki Phonics pdf Graded Reading Stories. Each one is presented next to the lesson it corresponds with.

3. The Seven "Let's start writing" pdf Worksheets/Workbooks.

1. "The Big Picture" 3 Page Phonics Overview pdf Wall Chart

2. "It's Game Time!" pdf mini cards - with all the most popular sight words.

3. "Be a Reading Master" final review pdf Snakes & Ladders board.

Everything you need to get your child loving reading in 7 hours or less.

Remember, it's all guaranteed. If it doesn't help your child to read, just send me an email and you'll get a full refund.

This is going to change how you think about reading. And then we can get back to the fun things in life 🙂

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