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Demographics at start of Pilot
French & Spanish Languages
10
5
300
11
French Teachers
Spanish Teachers
Individual Students Involved
Schools Involved
1
Community College DEIS School (ETB)
1
Educate Together Secondary School
4
Voluntary Secondary Schools
(1 x fee charging)
1
Irish Medium school
1
Comprehensive school
Schools Context
3
Girls only
1
Boys only
7
Mixed Schools
(1 x fee charging)
Counties Involved
Cork, Kildare, Offaly, Tipperary,
Dublin and Donegal.
Impact
Teacher Feedback
“Not only did it provide an opportunity for our TY
Student Feedback
students to explore their interests in Spanish and
“[CLIL] enhances your understanding of the language
French, but it also provided cross-curricular
but it also makes you more interested in it because
collaboration amongst colleagues. Students took
you’re learning more interesting subjects like history
ownership of their learning and demonstrated values,
and geography rather than grammar and
creativity and communication skills.”
vocabulary”
"CLIL is a brilliant opportunity for teachers to reflect
“It gives you the confidence to speak French without
on their own current practice and also...for MFL
the worry of a big exam at the end of the year. It’s way
teachers to build on their own language repertoire.”
better than normal French class because you’re more
(Teacher involved in CLIL Project)
relaxed and learn from your mistakes”
“I would encourage any teacher to try CLIL because,
as a language teacher, it’s such an important
opportunity to use your language in a different
“We’re learning more advanced vocabulary. More
than the leaving cert students so we’ll be well ahead
next year”
context and to see how students engage differently”
(Teacher involved in the CLIL pilot)
Five of the schools involved with the pilot are continuing with CLIL in 2020 and are keen to embed the
module into their TY programmes for September 2020.
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