Abstract
This paper outlines an attempt to discover students’ progress in both content and language skill in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) lessons at an Indonesia’s higher education context. This is a part of a research conducted at Faculty of Science and Technology of Nusa Cendana University in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara Province. This study employs mixed method approach with 20 participants attending by taking pre-test and post-test as well as joining a focus group interview particularly for 6 students. The tests were aimed at measuring the participants’ comprehension of English as the language of CLIL lesson. They were also used as the tool to evaluate students’ mastery of Mathematics as the content subject. Based on the post-test results, the findings showed that more students made significant progress in content subject in comparison to their achievement in language proficiency. Regarding the interview, the students admitted that their failure to made progress in both subjects were mainly caused by their inadequate level of English. This, therefore, led to rising anxiety among the students to complete the tests.
Highlights
This study was undertaken due to the growing interest of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) implementation in Asia generally and Indonesia in particular
The understanding of an integrated framework design like CLIL approach and the possibility to succeed in Indonesia has inspired the researcher to conduct CLIL pilot project in Nusa Cendana University context
It appears from the table that the respondents achieved higher scores in content subject than in language proficiency
Summary
This study was undertaken due to the growing interest of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) implementation in Asia generally and Indonesia in particular. As the teacher at Nusa Cendana University, the researcher began to explore CLIL as a potential design to teach and learn another language and content subject simultaneously. The understanding of an integrated framework design like CLIL approach and the possibility to succeed in Indonesia has inspired the researcher to conduct CLIL pilot project in Nusa Cendana University context. Since this was an initial step in the implementation of CLIL, the researcher narrowed the focus of the study on the students’ progress in CLIL lessons.
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