Towards Bilingual Primary Education: CLIL Activity Design for Arts and Social Sciences

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/reifop.21.2.305521
Keywords: Bilingual Primary Education, CLIL activities, innovation project, Social Sciences, Arts

Abstract

Bilingual education has become an education innovation and research trend in the last ten years. In fact, it is a priority in the current education system. Therefore, training centres, such as Faculties of Education, must provide students with the necessary tools and knowledge to become professional teachers in plurilingual and pluricultural environments. Considering this, the present paper has two main aims: to show an innovation project carried out in the Bilingual Programme of the Faculty of Education in Albacete consisting in the creation of CLIL resources for Arts and Social Sciences; and to explain how this experience was an opportunity to delve into CLIL and other specific needs future teachers will have in plurilingual Primary schools. This study is framed within education innovation and follows action research, classroom research and the ethnographic case study approach. The results bring to light the benefits of this kind of projects on future teachers’ training, as well as their school placements and undergraduate dissertations, and demonstrate that Faculties of Education are working towards bringing the reality of schools to trainee teachers.

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Author Biographies

Raquel Sánchez Ruiz, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Departamento de Filología Moderna (Inglés)

Coordinadora de la Modalidad Bilingüe del Grado en Educación Primaria

Rosa María López Campillo, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Departamento de Filología Moderna (Inglés)

Decana de la Facultad de Educación de Albacete

Published
10-04-2018
How to Cite
Sánchez Ruiz, R., & López Campillo, R. M. (2018). Towards Bilingual Primary Education: CLIL Activity Design for Arts and Social Sciences. Interuniversity Electronic Journal of Teacher Formation, 21(2), 127–139. https://doi.org/10.6018/reifop.21.2.305521