The word
co-operate is defined as “together; joint or
jointly; mutual or mutually”. This word used in the subjet of CLIL wants to say
that all the children must work in groups or together, not alone. According to Johnson,
Maruyama, Johnson, Nelson and Skon, “cooperative learning has also proved
favourable to social cohesion and collaboration within the group, allowing
students to overcome fear in front of other students or teachers.” It is a word to be employed at all the
subjects, not only in CLIL.
If we
focus in CLIL subjet, co-operative work is something very important because the
children will learn as a whole. It is true that the word co-operate has a broad
range, as we know we can talk about co-operative work with different number of
children and that will have different level of difficulty. Small groups, in my
opinion, are the best ones that is because all the group is going to work and
contribute, not like in a big group where only some of them are going to do the
work and they are not going to complete tasks collectively. And in CLIL must
work everyone equally, it is a new subjet for them so all of them start in the
same level. In this book they talk about a work of “the whole-class or in
groups” (Ana Llinares, Tom Morton, Rachel Whittaker; Cambridge University Press; 2012) but they
not talk about an individul work, that is because the best way to teach CLIL is
by a co-operative learning. Other authors repit the same; group work is a
“useful teaching method” (Lydia Sajda; GRIN Verlag, 2008).
In CLIL, one of the most important aim is
to learn science vocabulary and children will learn those words by speaking,
reading, writing or listening. Those methods will be work in groups and not
individually. Because in my opinion, it is more interesting for the pupil to
work with their classmates and not in their own. In addtion, with a
co-operative work, children will learn about the others and they will help each
other. It is true that with this co-operate learning, it is easier that
children get distracted. But on the other hand, “effective cooperative learning
experiences increase the probability of children's success throughout their
school years”.
References:
- Ana
Llinares, Tom Morton, Rachel Whittaker: The Roles of Language
in CLIL. Cambridge University Press,
2012.
- Lydia Sajda: CLIL. Content and language integrated
learning. GRIN
Verlag: 2008.
- http://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0302-cooperative.html
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