Abstract:

The use of Content Integrated Language Learning (CLIL) has been widely recognized as very useful in learning a foreign language (Marsh, 2012; Mehisto, 2012; among others), even more when it is introduced at an early age. Given the fact that we cannot rely very much on written words at this stage of education, the introduction of picture books is especially recommended, even more in this CLIL context, where the 4 C’s can be easily integrated. Similarly, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) needs to be present from this period, as present-day kids are clearly digital natives (Prensky, 2001), and the current legislation, as much as society, demands that we introduce, among others, this competency.

In this paper we present an example, Cuadernia: Press Here, to prove that the inclusion of all these aspects (early education, CLIL, picture books, and ICT), is not only possible, but recommended as a tool to cover the different areas of knowledge for preschool (self-knowledge, knowledge of the environment, or language: communication and representation) (RD 1630/2006).

The five sessions presented in it have as common ground Hervé Tullet’s picture book Press Here (2010) and cover the use of colors through Math, Art, and Music, as well as the teaching of vocabulary and concepts of directionality and laterality in a CLIL context to use at preschool level.

Keywords:

Cuadernia, Storytelling, CLIL, preschool.