Is Soft-CLIL the solution to Spaniards' low level in English? A suggested planning model

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Miriam García Rodríguez

Abstract

The consolidation of English as the lingua franca of today’s society has meant that its
learning is no longer a choice, but a requirement due to the importance it now reflects in
our educational system and the subsequent growth of different teaching approaches.
Among the wide variety of methodologies, in the last few years, Content and Language
Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been positioned as one of the most important teaching
approaches. However, the lack of cohesion among the authors about its teaching practices
and the application of the model, as well as the training CLIL requires in mastering both
content and language, have made their introduction in our educational system difficult.
For these reasons, a good alternative to solve this problem is the combination of the socalled
“soft-CLIL” and Project-Based learning (PBL).
As a result, it is the aim of this article to suggest a model that combines both of these
learning approaches in the Majorcan setting where, although CLIL is quite extended, PBL is
almost nonexistent at a secondary-school level.

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Is Soft-CLIL the solution to Spaniards’ low level in English? A suggested planning model. (2017). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 1, 125-142. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2017.4038