Phonological acquisition in CLIL- and non-CLIL-education

Research on Content and Language Integrated Learning demonstrates that CLIL learners outperform non-CLIL learners with regard to spoken skills and oral proficiency, but that there is a discrepancy between CLIL learners’ receptive and productive skills (Dalton Puffer 2008, Lasagabaster 2008, Lord 2010, Ruiz de Zarobe 2011): CLIL leads to native levels of performance in listening and reading, but to erratic results in speaking and writing. So far, little comparative research has been done on the acquisition of phonology (Dalton Puffer 2008, Ruiz de Zarobe 2011). This paper reports on a series of... Mehr ...