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The Hungarian
Perspective in CLIL
Mária ria Szabóné Szab Pákozdi kozdi
Kaunas, May 16, 2008
Károli roli Gásp G spár r University, Budapest

Topics
1. CLIL at Károli roli University
2. Dual language Education in HU and
CLIL in Europe - Interesting facts in
HU grammar and vocational CLIL
schools
3. Benefits and Drawbacks from
different perspectives in HU and in
LT
4. How to be a CLIL teacher?
teacher

1. CLIL at Károli roli University
European projects in Education
Bilingua Programme
(2-year, (2 year, post-graduate
post graduate programme for teachers of
non-language
non language subjects in English)
CLIL Conference for former Socialist
countries
Research
(involving involving university students)
students

Erasmus Intensive Programmes
for teacher trainees

2. Dual language education
and CLIL
HU:
Dual language education since
1987 (top down)
Aim: Aim:
to develop the language
competence of some gifted
students in order to pursue
studies abroad
High quality
Secondary(15
Secondary(15-18)
18)- primary(7 primary(7-
14) –kindergarten
kindergarten - teriary? teriary
Languages: Languages:
EN, FR,GE, ES, IT,
RU
European trends: trends
CLIL since 1996
Aim: Aim:
to develop the language
competence of students in
mainstream education
Often experimenting
Several levels, levels,
several
approaches
Languages:
Languages:
mainly EN and FR,
ES, etc

CLIL in the primary

Dual lang. lang.
grammar schools
and vocational schools (14-18y) (14 18y)
aims
Subjects
(+ Target
Lang.Culture)
Lang.Culture
Results
tendencies
teachers
Grammar Schools
Further studies or autonomous
learning in the FL
YILL and year 0
Theoretic subjects
Outstanding
(final final exams: exams:
0,48 grade higher
than the national average) average
78% satisfied
Double Majors
Vocational Schools
Work in the FL
YILL and year 0
Subjects of the profession
A bit lower than in the grammar
schools
72% satisfied
Content teachers having taught
or practised their prof. abroad

3.Benefits and Drawbacks:
Drawbacks:
the perspective of:
1. Students
2. Teachers
3. The school
4. The local community

3.1.Benefits and Drawbacks:
Drawbacks:
the students’ students perspective
Practical language knowledge
Results
Further studies
Mother tongue
International networking(projects
networking projects, ,
student exchange, exchange,
studies abroad,cult abroad cult. .
events)
events

3.2.Benefits and Drawbacks:
Drawbacks:
the teachers’ teachers perspective
Challenges,
Challenges,
environment supporting professional
development
Lack of centrally organized training
Problems of the common forum on the Internet
Improvement of their FL competence
Cooperation on every level
Teaching materials development
Salary/ Salary/
number of lessons
Parents’ Parents demands
Motivated learners

3.3.Benefits and Drawbacks:
Drawbacks:
the schools’ schools perspective
Larger pool of students/selection
students selection
Bigger support, support,
better conditions, conditions,
but: but:
lack of textbooks
Availability of well-qualified
well qualified teachers, teachers,
native treachers’ treachers competencies
A different final exam
Ill-founded Ill founded parents’ parents expectations
Lack of centralised events

3.4.Benefits and Drawbacks:
Drawbacks:
the perspective of the local
community
„Best Best school” school impact
Selection/segregation
Selection segregation
Need for bigger support
Enhancing international cooperation
But: But:
no solution for the foreign
language competence of the public

Benefits and Drawbacks
Students
Teachers
in LT
School
Local community

4.How to be a CLIL teacher? teacher
Language teacher
Interest
1. Interest
Content based
materials
2. Content
3. Co-operation
Co operation with the
content teacher(s) teacher(s)
4. Additional training
5. Dedication
Content teacher
Interest
1. Interest
Experimenting with
2. Experimenting
the FL (projects projects or parts of
the lesson in the FL)
3. Co-operation
Co operation with the
FL teacher
4. Additional training
5. Dedication

4.1.Interest
Visit:
Keith Kelly’s Kelly Factworld yahoogroup
http:// http://groups.yahoo.com
groups.yahoo.com/group group/factworld factworld/
www.clilconsortium.jyu.fi
(Tallin Conference: 24-25 October)
www.onestopclil.com
www.teachingenglish.org.uk
www.clilcompendium.com
www.euroclic.net
www.britishcouncil.org
www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/ang_new/online_papers
http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/CLILmatrix/

4.2.Content based material
– Experimenting with the FL
Lesson plans and
reflections from
teacher trainees: trainees
What did they like
and dislike? dislike
How did the
cooperation go?
Did they draw any
conclusions?
conclusions

4.3.Co-operation
4.3.Co operation
How would you go
about a lesson in
English on
Charlemagne,
Charlemagne,
the
first European king? king
Brainstorm.
Brainstorm

4.4. Additional training
and 4.5. Dedication

Thank you for your
attention! attention
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