Development of Foreign Language Activity and Earth Science Integrated Classes Based on CLIL-Remodeled Methodology in an Elementary School

Abstract

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is one of the methodologies available to teachers holding English classes to help children acquire a second language. In CLIL, children learn a second language through subject content. The method is well known in European countries, but in Japan there have not been many practical reports on it. In this study, we constructed CLIL-remodeled science classes (SLIL classes: Science and Language Integrated Learning classes), which are not treated as language educational approaches, but as Science and English dual-focused approaches, fundamentally Science cognition based. This paper also reports on two forecasting SLIL practices, one on volcanic ash and one on the hardness of minerals, which we conducted in an elementary school.