A Project Implementation of CLIL Methodology in Geography Classes with Secondary School Learners

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A Project Implementation of CLIL Methodology in Geography Classes with Secondary School Learners

Mariya Stefanova Stratieva – Ivanova

Yordan Yovkov Secondary School, Tervel – Bulgaria, E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Mariyana Todorova Todorova

Varna University of Management – Bulgaria, E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract

The changing reality of the 21st century education requires successful acquisition of foreign languages, so that people could be prepared for the demands of the modern world – they need to be adaptable, communicative, foreign language competent, possessing the ability to attain profitable positions in the job market and to integrate socially. CLIL is considered to be an effective way of improving students’ foreign language knowledge and skills with respect to the challenges imposed by the modern world. This study represents a research on the effects of CLIL implementation within secondary students and aims at measuring the effects of the CLIL provision in terms of the students’ performance concerning their language skills. Promoting students’ better performance through the creation of a wider exposure to the English language is the objective of the present project. The methodology of the research involves two types of analysis of the obtained data: qualitative and quantitative. The ANOVA test with F-statistics has been conducted to test the hypothesis of the research. One and the same test has been designed to measure the students’ knowledge prior to and after the implementation of the CLIL project and the test results have been verified in the quantitative part of the present study to prove the hypothesis. The experimental group’s responses to the interview questions have been interpreted qualitatively. The current research concludes that a greater exposure to the English language, supplied with the CLIL type of training, improves students’ language knowledge and encourages the students themselves to use the foreign language in communicative activities.

Keywords: CLIL, English, Bulgaria, secondary students, education, language performance

Citation: Stratieva-Ivanova, M., Todorova, M. (2018) A Project Implementation of CLIL Methodology in Geography Classes with Secondary School Learners. Journal of Pedagogy and Educational Management 2, pp. 7-26