Fusing Theory and Practice: the CLIL Portfolio
Hi everyone! Today I would like to share with you an article I wrote during my stay at the University of Nottingham. I hope you like it. Towards a Theory of Practice for CLIL Pedagogy comes from the ancient Greek: ‘paidos’ (child) and ‘ágo’ (lead). In ancient Greece, it referred to the slave that led the children to the school or the gym. ( www.wikipedia.org (Access date 14 Feb. 2009) It has evolved through the centuries and it has been an object of study by many pedagogues, who have given hundreds of definitions. Some have considered it a science; others, an art. According to Gomez (2007), the concept of pedagogy addresses both children and adults because our society every time has more training organizations. It has its own principles and methods and it is evolving as well as society is. In my opinion, pedagogy is the group of theories, methods and strategies that instructors use in order to help the learner to construct own knowledge, no matter if he/she is a child or a...