Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Teaching, Learning and Education
Year: 2024
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Disciplinary Literacy in Bilingual Education
Elena Kovacikova, Zdena Kralova, Dorothea Salinkova
ABSTRACT:
The research project is a response to European trends and national practice in the introduction of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in lower and upper secondary education, i.e. teaching non-linguistic subjects through a foreign language. The project looks at bilingual education, not from the point of view of the development of language competences but examines the impact of bilingual education on the acquisition of disciplinary literacy, i.e. acquisition of domain-specific mental processes, knowledge, skills, and relevant content competences in dominant subjects (Mathematics, Biology, and History), in the relevant educational areas in the context of the new educational curriculum reform. It focuses on the development of Cognitive Discourse Functions (CDF) reflected in the level of constructs of critical thinking. The main intention and contribution of the research team is to clarify the mentioned relations. We expect that the findings will have a major impact on the development of didactic guidelines.
keywords: CLIL; content competences; Cognitive Discourse Functions; critical thinking; secondary education