Innovation in Language Learning

CLIL is a second language methodology that has shown to be one of the best approaches to successfully achieve the purpose of learning a foreign language by engaging content, language, culture, and critical thinking. The following paper presents an intervention proposal to improve the language teaching practices used by in-service teachers on a national vocational training college in Bucaramanga, Colombia by implementing a teacher training in CLIL. The training is divided into five sessions. It adds some theoretical background regarding CLIL, such as core features, history, relevance in nowadays education and characteristics regarding assessment, class material selection, and adjustment, and class planning. The paper also provides three tools to analyse teacher’s methodology, to evaluate class scheme and to judge teaching material, following CLIL model and principles. The primary purpose of this research is to analyze the teaching practices and promote the use of CLIL as a new methodology in SENA Bucaramanga.

Keywords: SENA, CLIL, Methodology;