Series | SAIL
Volume 13 | Monograph | The Role of Motivation in Teaching in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)
Abstract
There are several studies in the literature that emphasize the link between CLIL and student motivation for learning. The same does not apply for teachers – who teach a non-language subject through a foreign language – whose motivation for teaching in CLIL should not be taken for granted. Our research is an inquiry in the Italian upper secondary school with a dual focus: a main focus on CLIL teachers and a secondary one on CLIL students. The main aim of this cross-sectional study is to offer a snapshot of the existing situation from the point of view of teachers’ and students’ perceptions one year after the introduction of the legal requirement for compulsory CLIL, with a view to reflecting on the present in order to hypothesize possible future developments. The obtained results – which confirm the association between the motivational dimension of the CLIL teacher with the cognitive, affective and relational ones, and with the motivational dimension of CLIL students – are interpreted and discussed in the light of the most recent theoretical developments and suggestions for future practice and research are offered.
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-213-0 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-213-0 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-214-7 | Published April 28, 2018 | Language it
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