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“ES-189 Language learning spaces: diversity and transversality” April 22–26 2013Barcelona, Spain

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Jesi

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Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Galileo Galilei”JESI (An) Italy

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Profiles:Biotechnology

Humanistic Liceum

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713 students

500 females

213 males

85 teachers

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Innovative programmes for European Plurilingualism

Strategies for inclusion and student entrepreneurship

Challenges in the foreign language classroom using ICT and CLIL

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In 1991 Italian legislation introduce a first foreign language in primary school.

In 2004 a second mandatory foreign language was introduced with the Moratti reform in lower secondary school

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According to the latest findings of the Ministry of Education, 4.2% of the school population in Italy is made of non Italian citizens.

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These findings show that schools have become multilingual, not so much or solely because of the proposed lingustic offerings, nor for the linguistic heritage of Italian speakers, which alternates among dialect, regional Italian and standard Italian, but mostly because of the dimension created by the contacts developed between different linguistic and cultural heritages.

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In Italy there is a special situation near the borders with France, Austria and Slovenia

There are schools with French or German or Slovenian and Italian, then English as foreign language.

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About entrepreneurship…

National curricula for secondary education do not include Entrepreneurship Education.

As schools have some flexibility in choosing the content of subjects, they can foster entreprenuship activities.

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Entreprenurship is not yet included in all vocational training courses, school programmes still attach too little value to business stat ups and entrepreneurship. Although initial steps have been taken, future modernization of vocational training should systematically include entreprenurship.

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Alternation school-work: now a days there are a lot of projects at school about alternation school work that consists in 2 or 3 weeks of work

placements after some hours (20) of training. These projects are supported in part by the Ministry of Education and some of them by ESF.

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With the Secondary school reform in Italy, the CLIL teaching will be compulsory

Linguistic Lyceum: a subject non linguistic will be tought in a foreign language from the third year and another subject in another foreign language from the fourth year.

Other Lyceums: one non linguistic subject in a foreing language at fifth year

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To carry out this innovation it is necessary to:

Train teachers Foster understandig of cultures and

mentality of other countries Improve language skills Improve professional skills Enhance European Dimension of the

learning/teaching process

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The traditional teaching is not enough if we want to teach the citizens of the XXIst century.

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Taking into account all the teacher’s need, something concrete had to be done at school to help students and teachers to become better teachers and better students.

At school we began to work with the Leonardo da Vinci Programme

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The Leonardo da Vinci Programme links policy to practice in the field of vocational education and training.

Work placements abroad for students

Mobility of teachers

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The teachers needed something new and something with a very high impact in their professional development. That’s why we decided to apply for a Leonardo da Vinci project for teachers.

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Mobility of 2 weeks Know the new context Develop new skills Improve a foreign language There wasn’t a big standstill of the

school activities.

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Results1. Teachers interested in study

foreign languages2. Teachers interested in CLIL

(Content and Language Integrated Learning)

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Being the average age of the teachers of the school coincident with the mean age of the Italian teachers (50-55 years), the competence of the English language is almost absent or poor in the majority of the teachers.

With the project we intended to neutralize their not mastery of the foreign languages and to stimulate the awareness of the need of competences and knowledge.

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Added value of the project We succeeded in the participation

of 40% of the teachers staff at an experience of mobility. This type of experience is often only for the teachers of foreign languages, but rarely for teachers of other subjects.

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Impact After their participation to the project

activities, the teachers were able to motivate the students in some new competences and skills because they were more motivated and enthusiastic.

Teachers followed an English course The school applied for another project.

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The teachers understood that teachingwith CLIL methodology will help their students because:

Builds intercultural knowledge and understanding Develops intercultural communication skills Improves language competence and oral

communication skills Develops multilingual interests and attitudes Provides opportunties to study content through different

perspectives Allows learners more contact with the target language Complements other subjects rather than competes with

them Diversifies methods and forms of classroom practice Increases learners’ motivation and confidence in both

the language and the subject been tought.

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At school we began with experimental lessons. There are some teachers teaching some hours

their subjects in English There is a generally favorable atmosphere and

positive and enthusiastic response on the part of students and parents

The result is that students are more involved in the school work

The teachers found the tools to be motivated The performance of students and teachers

became better

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The students and teachers are interested in learning more foreign languages, learning more under a mobility project in another European country and they enhance their interest towards taking active part in the Knowledge Society.

Teaching with CLIL is not the only tool to increase the performance of teachers and students, but it can be an important one.

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Bilingual teaching and learning requires that we look not just at what the students have learnt/understood but, equally importantly, at how they have understood it.

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Thank you very much for your attention!