Innovation in Language Learning

The world is undergoing rapid changes concerning the development in science, knowledge, and technology. Moreover, the change can be seen in educational environment as the past months changed the teaching mode from face-to-face teaching to distance teaching. The students as well as the teachers had to adapt to challenges that the pandemic has brought to educational environment. The present study focuses on the development of digital skills of pre-service teachers (11, F=10, M=1), as well as on the usage of online tools in content and language integrated learning. Students were introduced to online tools that can be used for creating stories, moreover, they were shown how the tools and stories can be used during the teaching and how to integrate the tools to CLIL. The research also includes pre-service teachers’ experiences with the tools during their teaching practice, as well their preferences of online tools.

Keywords: CLIL, online tools, stories, pre-service teachers.

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