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Enhancing Military Language Proficiency: CLIL Curriculum Design

Develops a CLIL curriculum for military students to achieve higher proficiency levels in a 12-week course at NAF Language School, Latvia. Includes content on reading military texts, oral communication, grammar, and writing. Presentation also covers course objectives, curriculum outline, results, and problem areas.

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Enhancing Military Language Proficiency: CLIL Curriculum Design

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  1. What does CLILstand for? Ginta Lauva-TreideNAF Language SchoolLatvia

  2. Building Curriculum for Content and Language Integrated Learningto and at Higher Proficiency Level

  3. Presentation Outline • Content and Language Integrated Learning • Course Objective • Length of the Course • Curriculum • Results & problem areas • Questions

  4. Content and Language Integrated Learning • Learning another content through the medium of a foreign language • Learning a foreign language by studying content-based subject

  5. Assumptions about CLIL • Reading is the most essential skill • Knowledge of the language as the means of learning content • Learning is improved through increased motivation • CLIL is based on language acquisition rather than enforced learning

  6. Where we cannot apply CLIL to our curriculum • Fluency is more important than accuracy and errors are a natural part of language learning. Learners develop fluency in English by using English to communicate for a variety of purposes • Teachers working with CLIL are specialists in their own discipline rather than traditional language teachers • CLIL is long-term learning

  7. Course Objective To provide language training to a mixed group of the military students so that they were able • to study in the Baltic Defense College • to teach in the Baltic Defense College • to serve in Multinational HQ

  8. Level of Students & Length of the Course • Starting Level From SLP 2-1-1-1to SLP 2-2-2-2 • Length of the course: 480 lessons / 12 weeks of training

  9. Curriculum • Reading of Military Texts • Oral Communication • Grammar in Use • Writing

  10. Reading of Military Texts • Globalization and New Type of Threat • Centers of Gravity, Critical Capabilities, Requirements and Vulnerabilities • International and Intergovernmental Organizations • International Military Legislation (Conventions) • International Military Operations and MOOTW • Principles of Effective Media Relations

  11. Oral Communication • Rules of effective communication • Appropriate register • Cohesiveness of speech • Language of meetings • Presentations • Statistics and graphs • Hospitality and etiquette

  12. Grammarin Use • Tenses in active and passive voice • Adjectives and adverbs • Prepositions • Phrasal verbs • Modals • Conditionals and wishes • Reported speech

  13. Writing • Paragraphs • Narration • Description • Formal and informal letters • Reports • Essay writing

  14. Results at the end of the course

  15. Problem areas • One subject (Reading of Military Texts) dominates over the other subjects • Motivation to focus on accuracy • Materials

  16. Thank you very much for your attention • Questions?

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