Ludmila Hurajova
Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak Republic
Abstract
Content and language integrated learning is approach that has been studied longer than 20 years on mostly Primary and Secondary level of education. Scholars conducted their research from various perspectives to find CLIL impacts on students´ performance at content subjects, at foreign language (that was used as CLIL language) and also on students´ awareness of subject professional vocabulary in mother tongue when the subject was taught via CLIL. The teachers were subjects of studies as well, scholars focus mainly on their linguistic, didactic readiness to establish effective CLIL learning environment, on CLIL teacher competences needed for CLIL application etc. Our contribution aims at presenting our insight about CLIL approach in diverse education context around Europe from practical perspective. It focuses on describing CLIL forms that are applied in the countries (Italy, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden) that were the project partners in an ERASMUS+ project dealing with exchange of CLIL practice at Primary and Secondary schools. Some ways how to enhance CLIL awareness among teachers in Europe are presented. The project findings indicate that CLIL diversity is the way how this approach/method can be implemented into education to support dual integrated learning at Primary and Secondary schools in Europe and at same time demonstrate how Higher Education Institutions can benefit from CLIL application in Tertiary sector to support their internationalization process
Author Biography
Ludmila Hurajova, Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak Republic
Ľudmila Hurajová is a senior assisstant at STU MTF in Trnava at the Department of Languages and Humanities. She graduated in Biochemistry from Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Science in 1994 and in English and Literature from Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra in 2006. In 2013 she accomplished her PhD. in English didactics focused on CLIL teacher competences. Ľudmila Hurajová is a member of Slovak Council of CASAJC (Czech-Slovak Association of Language Teachers at Universities). In cooperation with colleagues from other departments, she annually organizes Student Research Conference. Currently, she coordinates an ERASMUS+ project “Transnational exchange of good CLIL practice among European Educational Institutions“ and participates in the international project “Student on-line conferences of STU MTF (Slovakia) and University of Niš, Faculty of Electronic Engineering (Serbia) for the purposes of specific English language and other skills development”. Areas of expertise: English didactics, CLIL methodology, language and pedagogical competences, use of multimedia in teaching as well as presentation techniques.
