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Additional
Language
Increasingly used instead of terms such as foreign, second or minority language,
to refer to any language other than the first language
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Bilingual
Environment
An environment in which two languages are used
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Certification
Officially-recognised documentation used in some form of assessment
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Discourse
Type
The type of communication found in the learning environment (e.g. classroom).
It is separated in terms of interactional (main emphasis on social communication),
and transactional discourse (main emphasis on giving and receiving information)
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Exposure
The proportion of CLIL teaching experienced by a learner in a school year
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Low
- about 5-15% of teaching time
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Medium
- about 15-50% of teaching time
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High
- over 50% of teaching time
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Foreign
Language
A language which is not usually used in the surrounding social environment
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ICT
Information and Communications Technology
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Immersion
Method
One specific form of CLIL usually involving extensive exposure and very
specific linguistic conditions in the environment
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Intercultural
Knowledge & Understanding
Understanding of one’s own in relation to other cultures
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Language
Awareness
Sensitivity to the similarities and differences between languages
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Language
Shower
Used to describe very short, but often continuous, exposure to CLIL
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Learning
Styles
An individuals preferences for approaches to learning
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Learning
Strategies
The ways in which individuals learn
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Majority
Language
The main
language used in the surrounding social environment. This often means ’national
language’ but not always
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Minority
Language
The language used by a minority in the surrounding social environment
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Monolingual
Environment
An environment in which one language is most widely used in the surrounding
social environment
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Mother
Tongue
This is generally used to refer to the first language a child acquires and
uses, but in some cases children will be fully bilingual and thus may not
actually have one first language, but perhaps two or more first languages
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Multilingual
Environment
An environment in which three or more different languages are actively used
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Native
Speaker
A person who considers the target language to be his/her first language
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Plurilingual
Attitudes
Attitudes which support the value of being able to use, to a greater or
lesser extent, three or more languages
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School
Profile
The public image of a school
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Second
Language
Used to describe a language widely used in the surrounding environment which
is not considered to be a foreign language
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Target
Language
The language used for CLIL
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Trans-languaging
Where more than one language is used in the CLIL classroom environment
