Helping Students Find Their Own Momentum

Discipline? Motivation? Inspiration? What is it that a student truly needs to properly assess and integrate a lesson? Stimulating a child’s mind can be a tricky process and you need the right tools to do so. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is one of them. Haven’t tried it before? The results will amaze you!

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My students complain that CLIL reading texts are too long and difficult to deal with… What should I do?

by Dimitris Primalis

Unlike traditional EFL (English as a Foreign Language) texts, which are graded and fairly simple for lower level class, texts in CLIL books are usually long and more demanding in terms of vocabulary, structure and are usually different in terms of task types (e.g. students may have to complete a Venn diagram). These features may bring to surface complaints by students and parents and add further pressure to the educator.  How can you deal with it?

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