Abstract:

The author will share and reflect on her experience of training primary school teachers on how they could teach English online using the CLIL (content and language integrated learning) methodology. The author herself, trained by a CLIL expert (Judit Kovács – a colleague of David Marsh, one of the initiators of CLIL), has been teaching CLIL for almost 25 years to different age groups. COVID-19 and the transition to the online space have been a big challenge in training primary school teachers on how to teach children CLIL not only physically in the classroom, but also through online platforms. CLIL contributes to the development of children's communicative competence in a foreign language, but also supports the development of their various global competences and soft skills, especially critical and creative thinking. Basic facts about the history of CLIL will be offered in this paper, together with experiences of online teaching of CLIL methodology and its reflection and feedback from trained teachers. This contribution was financially supported by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and its grant scheme KEGA (project entitled "Creation of a web portal for methodical support of teaching foreign languages in primary education" KEGA 011UMB-4/2022),

Keywords:

CLIL, primary education, teachers, foreign language teaching, online.