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Classroom
language in CLIL
Creating connections, building bridges
Classroom interaction fosters If you do use your students’ mother tongue more
than English in your spontaneous, interpersonal
language learning
communication with students remember that:
The concept ‘classroom language’ refers to any • using the mother tongue is easier in the short
type of language in any situation in the classroom. term, but the effort you make to use English
It can be talk between the teacher and the will bring better results in the long run.
learners or among the learners themselves.
• for many learners the teacher is their only
Teachers can control some part of this language,
contact with English.
but what students learn in the end often depends
on the spontaneous and unpredictable. • learners should perceive English as authentic,
real and natural.
The most frequently used interpersonal language
in the classroom is language used to give
Remember!
instructions (“Come here please!”); to praise and
encourage (“Well done!”); to control the class Don’t limit yourself to just a few old expressions.
(“Please be quiet!”) and so on. These are the most It might be a good way to develop routines at
common examples, but classroom language can the beginning, but eventually you will become
be much richer and it deserves special attention repetitive. Add variety. Surprise your students
in CLIL classes. with new expressions!
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