WEEK 2
After finding more information on ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) and on translanguaging, write a brief essay explaining your idea about these two concepts, their relation with CLIL and their potential in a CLIL class.
You can also refer to your personal experience.
Images, pictures and findings from the net on ELF and translanguaging can also be referred to.
This assignment will be only validated not graded.
TASK BY TIZIANA ANGIOLINI
There has been a growing interest regarding ELF and I think this is due to the widespread use of English both at work and in education.
Moocs and globalization have helped more learners to work online and also in different parts of the world. In Europe we are trying to have more mobilities for learners and educators: it is vital to use English.
As regards CLIL I feel that it has focussed more on communication and content and thus learners who can speak and write while using English have achieved the main goal. They may make mistakes but what really matters is to get them into the habit of working and communicating by using English in different topics and subjects.
The concept of TRANSLANGUAGING is new to me : “ Translanguaging is the process whereby multilingual speakers utilize their languages as an integrated communication system “.
I have many students in my classes but they are not multilingual speakers. Foreign learners are often struggling learners- they do not speak Italian well and some do find difficulties in English too. My Italian students do not always work in English , I try to help them when they find it is difficult to understand a piece of writing.
I think that this idea can work well in some schools where also educators speak other languages. It is important to communicate and if you speak more languages this can help you.
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