Idatzizko trebetasuna testuinguru soziolinguistiko desberdinetako CLIL eta ez-CLIL ikasgeletan

Abstract

The use of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) as a tool to improve the level of English has increased substantially, in the Basque Country as well. However, the Basque Country already has an immersion model to secure the survival of its minority language (Basque) and the aim of this work is to investigate the effects that CLIL can have in students’ writing ability who follow this educational model. For this purpose, 138 instruction texts from secondary education students have been collected in the three languages present in the curriculum. The texts have been analysed using ESLCP (Jacobs et al., 1981) and the results show the following: (i) the students who follow CLIL methodology have achieved better results than the non-CLIL group, (ii) the sociolinguistic context can have an effect in the results of CLIL, (iii) it appears that CLIL does not have negative effects in the other two languages of the curriculum and (iv) it seems that there some kind of cognitive academic transfer among the writings of the subjects. • Key words: CLIL, writing skills, sociolinguistic context, multilingual contexts, minority languages. * Irakaslea.