Abstract
The article presents the experience of CLIL implementation in teaching students of economic specialities. The research shows that CLIL offers a solution to improving subject and foreign language knowledge. Students of Management and Marketing Faculty of the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” (n=83) were involved in the experiment. 46 students of the experimental group studied the Statistic Course by applying the CLIL methodology. Before the experiment, the criteria and indicators for assessing the students’ economic competence and the methods of evaluation were determined. The quantitative and qualitative results of the experiment represent the effectiveness of the methodology. The results indicate that students improved understanding of principles and methods of processing statistical data, and the ability to use statistical research in practice that positively influences professional development. Integrated learning improves interdisciplinary connections, intensifies motivation to study a foreign language, develops cognitive and practical skills. The results prove that CLIL allows increasing students’ level of economic competence.
Highlights
One of the basic requirements for a modern professional is the ability to communicate in a foreign language
Using the results of the SWOT-analysis of the implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Ukraine (Leshchenko et al, 2018, p. 21), the specifics of the discipline chosen for the experiment, and the level of preparation of students in English, it was decided to use the third model of the implementation of the CLIL methodology, i.e. a teacher-based instruction with limited English medium instruction
The comparative analysis of the mean scores confirmed the effectiveness of the implementation of the experiment: the application of the third model of implementation of the CLIL methodology, i.e., a teacherbased instruction with a limited English medium instruction, in studying the Statistics Course by students of economic specialities (Figure 1)
Summary
One of the basic requirements for a modern professional is the ability to communicate in a foreign language. There are new methods aimed at improving the quality of education One of these techniques is the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). The basis of this method is the study of the subject by means of a foreign language and, teaching a foreign language through the subject. The second model is teacher-based learning with partial English medium instructions with limited students’ involvement. The fourth model combined learning model with specific English medium instruction Both languages are used in the learning process.
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