Intelligibility within a Modified CLIL Framework

• Authors: Dušan Nikolić

Title variants

PL

Intelligibility within a Modified CLIL Framework

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

The paper provides a brief summary of what CLIL is and why it is regarded as a mainstreampedagogical approach today. The paper’s aim is to state the significance of language withinZydatiß’ modified version of 4Cs framework of CLIL and to recommend the re-modified 4Csframework of CLIL. The paper further stresses the importance of pronunciation for communicationfocusing on intelligibility as a necessary linguistic category arguing that intelligibility should become an essential part of communication within CLIL. The paper also lists the important implications for the further proceedings in this direction.

Keywords

EN

CLIL; intelligibility; communication; CLIL; intelligibility; communication

PL

CLIL; intelligibility; communication.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Glottodidactica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 44
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 119-130

Dates

published

2017-08-31

Contributors

author

Dušan Nikolić

• University of Niš

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/gl.2017.44.1.07