TKT - Teaching Knowledge Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Questions and Answers

Question 1

What is the primary dual-focus of a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach?

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Learning a subject topic and a foreign language simultaneously.

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Developing fluency and reading comprehension.

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Teaching grammar rules and cultural awareness.

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Improving listening skills and project-based work.

Question 2

A history teacher, teaching in English, provides students with a graphic organiser to help them classify the causes and effects of a historical event they are reading about. This is a clear example of which key CLIL practice?

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Scaffolding

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Formative assessment

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Peer correction

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Task-based learning

Question 3

According to Coyle's 4Cs Framework, a lesson that encourages students to compare, evaluate, or create is primarily targeting which component?

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Cognition

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Content

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Communication

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Culture

Question 4

In a CLIL science lesson on ecosystems, the teacher explicitly pre-teaches key vocabulary such as 'producer', 'consumer', and 'decomposer'. This represents which element of the 'Language Triptych'?

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Language OF learning

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Language FOR learning

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Language THROUGH learning

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Language AS learning

Question 5

Which of the following activities best promotes the development of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in a CLIL classroom?

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Creating a new, improved design for a water filter based on principles learned in a science unit.

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Matching key historical dates to the events that occurred on them.

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Completing a gap-fill exercise with the correct prepositions.

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Labelling the different parts of a plant on a diagram.

Question 6

A key feature of CLIL is that language is acquired naturally through use. This means that in a CLIL classroom, there is typically a greater emphasis on:

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Fluency and communication over accuracy.

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Drilling grammatical structures.

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Memorising vocabulary lists.

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Teacher-centred instruction.