Secondary School students and teachers’ opinions and beliefs about CLIL

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to understand how English can be taught as a foreign language (FL) focusing on the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) teaching approach. The research starts explaining some language learning perspectives and some teaching methods applied before CLIL appeared, even though, a few of them are still used nowadays. However, CLIL is taught for specific goals, thus there is a need to know not only the positive but also the negative points as well as other factors that affect these approaches. Apart from the theoretical section where some factors about the programme will be mentioned and described, the second part of the dissertation is a study about the CLIL knowledge teachers and students have. In this study, a questionnaire about CLIL was given to each student of 1st and 3rd ESO in Álvaro Falomir high school (Almassora). The study is going to be analysed and compared to the CLIL theory we have collected. Furthermore, another CLIL questionnaire was given to the high school teachers. There were some similar questions to the students’ questionnaire ones, accordingly, a comparison between teachers and students thoughts can be made.