The Integrated Nature of CLIL: A Sociocultural Perspective.

The  article wants both to explore the integrated nature of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and to advance a more in-depth understanding of this integrated relationship from a sociocultural perspective.

3 Main ideas of the article and why they are important for me:

- Learning within a community can thus be regarded as a process of ‘appropriation: As a human beeings we need a community to understand us and to learn what is meaningful for us.

- The integrated nature of content and language integrated learning (CLIL): “to provide learning outcomes in the chosen subject … at the same level as the standard mother tongue curriculum; and, to provide learning outcomes in the L2 which exceed the standard curriculum” (Masih, 1999:8)."

- Integrated relationship from a sociocultural perspective: This means that one subject that is leaning from the society. He will become dynamic, interactive, thinking active through the guidance of the teacher and the relationships of his sorroundings.

5 Key Expressions:

1. Mediating the construction of knowledge and understanding.
2. Sociocultural pedagogical model for CLIL.
3. Exploratory talk.
4. Social nature of learning.

 Personally, I think that this reading it is better to read it in the middle of the semester, because it is a good way to learn about CLIL and to meditate about what we have been learning before.