Approaches and CLIL

1. Old approaches

1.1. Reading Approaches  Focused on reading skills. Grammar and fluency do not matter for the teacher and students.  Audiolingual Approach  Developed by U.S. military in order to listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The teacher must manage the language perfectly. This approach mostly is to understand what the speaker says.  Oral-situational Approach  Students learn the target language using real life situations like at a restaurant, meeting, etc. And the most important skill is speaking. 

2. New approaches

2.1. Cognitive Approach by Noam Chomsky Four skills are learned and students use their mistakes to learn. Affective humanistic approach The teacher is a friendly facilitator besides a friendship environment is very important to learn the target language. Comprehension-based approach by Stephen krashen L1 And L2 are learned. Grammar is not important in this approach. Students are exposed to the languages and they only speak when they feel comfortable. Communicative approach by Dell Hymes The priority of the approach is to communicate effectively and appropriately.

3. Content and Language Integrated Learning.

3.1. The teacher manages the target language and the content of the subject. Students learn the target language and an educational topic (science, mathematics, social studies, etc). This approach uses 4 C’s pillars that keep the method working. You can avoid one of them but the result is not the same. COMMUNICATION is about specific CONTENT What I want my students adquiere is COGNITION and they learn CULTURE. There you have the 4 C's pillars.