FROM CLILiG TO DIGITAL TOOLS: DEVELOPING READING STRATEGIES AND COLLABORATIVE SKILLS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Authors

  • Dana CONKAN Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2019.2.03

Keywords:

CLILiG, digital learning tools, reading strategies, collaborative skills, macro- and micro-scaffolding, language awareness strategies.

Abstract

From CLILiG to Digital Tools: Developing Reading Strategies and Collaborative Skills for University Students. The article sets out to investigate how language awareness strategies found in the didactics of CLILiG (Content and Language Integrated Learning in German) can support, develop and train reading strategies and collaborative skills for university students. As a didactic concept, CLILiG is, on the one hand, the direct result of language policies. On the other hand, it is a natural response to the multilingual learner of today. The first part of the article focuses on CLILiG, its variants, main features (micro- and macro-scaffolding) and how digital tools for learning can be integrated in class, in order to make use of both language and specific content. The second part discusses two didactic examples designed for students studying in German Institutional Communication in the European Union at the Faculty of European Studies, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The article offers a look into digital tools like Coggle and Padlet and how they can be used in class to train reading strategies and collaborative skills with university students. Students’ interaction with challenging texts in a foreign language and digital tools supporting a learning outcome can improve reading skills and allow students to find creative ways of understanding specialized content, especially because of the features digital apps like Coggle and Padlet have to offer.

REZUMAT. De la CLILiG la aplicații digitale: Strategii de citire și învățare colaborativă pentru studenți. Articolul explorează cum principiile de conștiență lingvistică (language awareness) regăsite în didactica CLILiG (Content and Language Integrated Learning in German) susțin, dezvoltă și exersează strategiile de citire și colaborare ale studenților. Ca termen, CLILiG este pe de-o parte rezultatul politicilor lingvistice din spațiul german, pe de alta este un răspuns firesc la multilingvism. Prima parte a articolul prezintă abordarea CLILiG, principalele caracteristici ale acesteia (micro și macro-secvenţiere) și felul în care aplicațiile digitale la clasă pot fi utilizate în a exersa atât limba străină, cât și conținutul specific al materiei. Partea a doua conține două exemple didactice concepute pentru studenții înscriși la cursul de Comunicare instituțională în Uniunea Europeană (în limba germană) din oferta Facultății de Studii Europene, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca. Articolul prezintă aplicațiile la clasă a două instrumente digitale, Coggle și Padlet si felul în care acestea exersează strategiile de lectură a textelor specializate, imbunătățind și colaborarea între studenții participanți la curs și seminar. Exemplele arată cum o lectură planificată (determinată de scopul didactic final) a textelor de specialitate permite înțelegerea acestora și cu ajutorul aplicațiilor digitale precum Coggle sau Padlet.

Cuvinte-cheie: CLILiG, aplicații digitale, strategii de lectură, colaborare, macro- și micro-secvenţiere, strategii de conștiență lingvistică.

Author Biography

Dana CONKAN, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Lecturer Dana Conkan, Ph.D., is a member of the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes at the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She teaches German for specific purposes, Institutional Communication in the European Union at the Faculty of European Studies and German as a foreign language at the Goethe-Zentrum, Cluj-Napoca. She is a certified teacher trainer for the Goethe-Institute in Bucharest. Her research interests are: literature of migration in the German speaking world, didactics of German as a foreign language, CLIL and neurodidactics.

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Published

2019-06-24

How to Cite

CONKAN, D. (2019). FROM CLILiG TO DIGITAL TOOLS: DEVELOPING READING STRATEGIES AND COLLABORATIVE SKILLS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 64(2), 35–48. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2019.2.03

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