<p>The present study aims to investigate students’ English at a Swedish secondaryschool concerning their fluency. Hereby students who take part in SPRINT(språk- och innehållsintegrerad inlärning och undervisning) will be compared withstudents who do not take part in this project.The study focuses on oral fluency, which is measured in tone groups. It came outthat students that take part in SPRINT programs have a higher amount of tonegroups than students who do not take part in these programs. Therefore one cansay they are more fluent in the language than other students.</p>

This work is based on the introduction and methodology of CLIL type of teaching at elementary schools. This work is directed to the teaching math in English language, preparations of teaching materials and their uses at elementary school Matice Školske in České Budějovice and in virtual school Global school. Altogether five teaching themes were prepared. In the teoretical part CLIL is introduced as a form of teaching, further on the analyzing situation of using foreign languages in European states. In the practical part, teaching methods are presented in international school Townshed, where the author took preparation in teaching maths in English. Further the teaching of prepared materials took place at Matice Školská elementary school, where one lesson was filmed for an illustration, as well as in the virtual school Global School. Prepared teaching materials are provided by audio records of vocabularies suitables for usage at elementary schools as well as in the virtual surrounding of Global School. The themes of teaching materials are wide elaborated, then they can find their use at every elementary school.

Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-21T14:10:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_12587_TEXTO FINAL COMPLETO - Edineia print version.pdf: 9557215 bytes, checksum: 0fdb61017e4dbe2309b454c1affdb50f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-16 / Este trabalho analisa possibilidades e limitações da abordagem de ensino de conteúdos diversos por meio da língua conhecida como Content and Language Integrated Learning ou CLIL na abreviação em inglês e doravante, no ensino de inglês da Educação Infantil. As perguntas de pesquisa que norteiam o trabalho são quais são possibilidades e limitações do uso da abordagem CLIL na educação infantil e quais são apropriações de uma professora/pesquisadora dessa abordagem para selecionar, elaborar, adaptar, implementar e avaliar atividades baseadas na abordagem CLIL. A metodologia de pesquisa é a da pesquisa-ação e o estudo foi realizado em uma escola privada regular não-bilíngue com crianças de 5 e 6 anos de idade, falantes apenas de português como língua materna (L1), em 3 turmas no último ano da Educação Infantil, totalizando 54 participantes. Foram preparados 10 planos de aula com base na abordagem CLIL para trabalhar conteúdos de Matemática, Linguagem Oral e Escrita e Ciências da Natureza ministrados em inglês como língua estrangeira (L2) para esse público. O arcabouço teórico que fundamenta a pesquisa é o da teoria sociocultural de Vigotsky (1934), com foco no conceito de Zona de Desenvolvimento Proximal (ZDP) proposto por ele. Os dados da pesquisa incluem notas do diário da professora/pesquisadora e os planos de aula produzidos e adaptados por ela. A análise dos dados mostra que é possível a utilização da abordagem CLIL na Educação Infantil por meio da mediação do professor, com a ajuda de materiais concretos que se relacionem com o conhecimento prévio dos alunos. O estudo conclui que existem possibilidades de uso da abordagem CLIL na Educação Infantil desde que as limitações relacionadas à formação de professores para atuarem com essa abordagem sejam superadas.

Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-21T14:10:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_12587_TEXTO FINAL COMPLETO - Edineia print version.pdf: 9557215 bytes, checksum: 0fdb61017e4dbe2309b454c1affdb50f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-16 / Este trabalho analisa possibilidades e limitações da abordagem de ensino de conteúdos diversos por meio da língua conhecida como Content and Language Integrated Learning ou CLIL na abreviação em inglês e doravante, no ensino de inglês da Educação Infantil. As perguntas de pesquisa que norteiam o trabalho são quais são possibilidades e limitações do uso da abordagem CLIL na educação infantil e quais são apropriações de uma professora/pesquisadora dessa abordagem para selecionar, elaborar, adaptar, implementar e avaliar atividades baseadas na abordagem CLIL. A metodologia de pesquisa é a da pesquisa-ação e o estudo foi realizado em uma escola privada regular não-bilíngue com crianças de 5 e 6 anos de idade, falantes apenas de português como língua materna (L1), em 3 turmas no último ano da Educação Infantil, totalizando 54 participantes. Foram preparados 10 planos de aula com base na abordagem CLIL para trabalhar conteúdos de Matemática, Linguagem Oral e Escrita e Ciências da Natureza ministrados em inglês como língua estrangeira (L2) para esse público. O arcabouço teórico que fundamenta a pesquisa é o da teoria sociocultural de Vigotsky (1934), com foco no conceito de Zona de Desenvolvimento Proximal (ZDP) proposto por ele. Os dados da pesquisa incluem notas do diário da professora/pesquisadora e os planos de aula produzidos e adaptados por ela. A análise dos dados mostra que é possível a utilização da abordagem CLIL na Educação Infantil por meio da mediação do professor, com a ajuda de materiais concretos que se relacionem com o conhecimento prévio dos alunos. O estudo conclui que existem possibilidades de uso da abordagem CLIL na Educação Infantil desde que as limitações relacionadas à formação de professores para atuarem com essa abordagem sejam superadas.

The subject of this thesis is using CLIL in practice at upper secondary school. The introductory part introduces CLIL generally, it speculates over the meaning, opportunities and difficulties of using it at Czech schools. The practical part contains four units: Taxonomy, Geology, Animals and Genetics, which help teachers link biology with English language using CLIL. The materials benefit from the author's experience with teaching both English language and biology at upper secondary school as well as previous experience with creating teaching materials. The main aim of this thesis is to verify these materials are usable in real educational process and to let students evaluate how well the lessons went through a questionnaire. The verification has proven the materials are usable and students find them beneficial.

This diploma thesis is focused on acquiring communicative competence in teaching the English language as a foreign language. It is based on the presumption that students are not aware of some components of communication which partake in understanding when communicating in a foreign language (context of situation, nonverbal communication, paralinguistic features). This assumption is being verified via questionnaires. The theoretical basis describes the grounding and benefits of drama techniques used in teaching a foreign language and The Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) method. Both these approaches are used for preparation of three experimental lesson plans which are put into practice. Video recordings are made which, along with information from students and their teacher, serve as a detailed analysis of the whole experiment.

Although the term CLIL standing for Content and Language Integrated Learning appeared as early as in 1994, and the European Union recognized it very quickly as a prospective and effective way of learning and teaching languages, it seems neither to have been used extensively within the Czech education system, nor there appears to be a general awareness of the method. However, this approach represents a great opportunity for creating more authentic atmosphere within language classrooms and simultaneously teaching and learning a content subject. When speaking of CLIL, several factors must be considered, such as its objectives, principles, methodology, discourse and materials, furthermore we have to take into account the criteria for designing and analysing material for language teaching (of course also in the view of the chosen content subject principles and objectives). In order to raise the awareness of CLIL as an effective approach to language and subject content teaching and to partly supply the lack of CLIL-focused materials, this thesis aims to take into account all the factors and present and analyse them in logical sequences, so finally an effective piece of material usable in CLIL classes could be created and subsequently analysed and evaluated. The present thesis is divided into three parts...

Syftet med detta arbete är att beskriva uppfattningarna hos fyra gymnasielärare avseende undervisning i matematik på för ett eleverna annat språk än deras modersmål. Denna kvalitativa studie har genomförts med fyra semistrukturerade intervjuer som datainsamlingsmetod, två intervjuer med matematiklärare, en intervju med en språklärare och en intervju med en språk- och matematiklärare. Intervjuernas fokus låg på lärarnas upplevda möjligheter och utmaningar samt undervisningsstrategier i en flerspråkig matematikundervisning. Resultatet visade att lärarna är språkligt medvetna, att de förstod vad i språket som kan framstå som svårt allt från vardagsbegrepp till grammatik.  Resultatet visade även att lärarna ofta stöter på olika språkliga utmaningar i undervisningen, som elevernas läs och skrivsvårigheter och begreppsförståelse. Dock menar lärarna att man genom fortbildning och samarbete mellan språk- och matematiklärarna kan överkomma utmaningarna som kan förekomma, och få lärdom över vilka språkliga strategier som är gynnsamma att använda och varför. / This study aims at describing the views of mathematics and language teachers regarding teaching mathematics in a language that is not students’ native language. The data were collected through four semi-structured interviews, with two mathematics teachers, one language teacher and one language and mathematics teacher. The interviews took 30 minutes to complete. The interviews were focused on the opportunities and challenges, as well as teaching strategies that teachers encounter in multilingual mathematics education. The results of this study showed that teachers are linguistically aware, that they understand what in the language can be considered difficult. The results also showed that teachers often encounter different linguist challenges in teaching, such as student’s reading and writing difficulties and conceptual understanding. They, however, had difficulties knowing what strategies and methods were most useful to use to facilitate the use of language in mathematics. Nevertheless, through continuing education and collaboration with the language teachers, they can work out the challenges that occurred, and learn about which linguistic strategies are most beneficial to use and why.

The core of the thesis is the realization of three lessons of mathematics conducted in accordance with the CLIL method, which integrates the teaching a non-linguistic subject with foreign language teaching. The topic of the lessons was non-finite geometric series and the chosen foreign language was German. The first part of the thesis introduces key definitions and theorems concerning sequences and geometric series. Comparisons are drawn between approaches of the Czech Republic and two German-speaking countries, Austria and Germany, in relationship to the teaching non-finite geometric series. Furthermore, available teaching materials of the selected countries are compared and applied visualized problems which appear in them are analysed. In the second part, the CLIL teaching method is presented together with the methodology according to which the lessons were prepared, realized and subsequently assessed. To conclude, the thesis presents a detailed analysis of the preparation and progress of the lessons, including the reflection. The appendix comprises of the utilized teaching materials as well as a range of the solved problems.

The aim of this dissertation is to investigate and characterize the innovative approach CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning), define the scope of the concept, establish CLIL teacher profile based on skill dimensions. The role of the teacher whether we introduce any innovative approach is crucial thus we need to define the CLIL teacher profile. To stipulate the CLIL teacher profile means to establish comprehensive implementation criteria for successful implementation of CLIL at school. The dissertation title - Teaching General Subjects through a Foreign Language as a Communication Tool - fully corresponds with the content of acronym CLIL. The theoretical part is divided into four sections. The first section discusses the assumptions and objectives of the work through the prism of three basic paradigms - philosophical, pedagogical and language. In the second section we define terms, we classify and describe the processes of pedagogical interaction and communication at school with an emphasis on CLIL. Attention is paid to the main stakeholders of these processes - teachers and pupils. In the third section we focus on the relationship between CLIL to bilingualism, to selected theories of language acquisition, curricular reforms and other selected aspects. In the fourth section, we present...