Context

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) plays an important role in language education, both as a feature of foreign language teaching and learning and as an element of motivation for more active learning of the contents.
While CLIL is currently being structurally implemented in secondary schools, most related literature and experiences focus on high-school pupils, with considerably less attention devoted to primary schools.
Throughout Europe, Primary Schools are encouraged to use the CLIL methodology, but in general, CLIL is not part of the regular school curriculum, is not mandatory and there is a lack of qualification of Teachers on the matter.

Aims

The CAMPS project intends to develop a greater and sound awareness of the importance of CLIL methodology for primary schools, as language studies have been increasingly proving that foreign languages can be more easily learned at a younger age, and so it seems to be for foreign languages learned/taught through CLIL methodology.

The specific aims of the project are:

• Provide primary school teachers with reliable yet accessible methodological training that can supply knowledge and experience with the CLIL so that it will be possible to create simple disciplinary input in English
• Provide teachers with easy and effective access to CLIL base teaching tools, taking the form of CLIL based Video lessons in English focusing on Arts and Music, to be used in their everyday teaching practices
• Promote the insertion of CLIL methodology at the primary school level by providing exemplary and motivational case studies

Activities

The following activities will be implemented:

• Development of an E-Learning Course to give teachers the necessary competences to apply the CLIL methodology in class
• Creation of videos on specific topics where to apply the CLIL methodology
• Recording of interviews from experts in the field of CLIL
• Creation of motivational videos to help teachers to get to know the positive aspects of the CLIL education

Results

The main project deliverables are:

• An online Training Course accessible from a dedicated E-learning platform which makes use of digital solutions to enhance the accessibility and usability by primary school teachers
• A collection of video lessons on specific Arts and Music topics being taught in English by native speakers elementary school teachers
• A database of case studies with which the project partners will collect direct experiences of CLIL experts, Primary school teachers, Primary school decision-makers, and policymakers in the field of education, with reference to the application of CLIL in primary schools