Teaching CLIL With Digital Literacies

Abstract

Despite the growing interest in digital literacy within educational policy, guidance for educators in terms of how digital literacy translates into the CLIL classroom is lacking. Many teachers feel ill-prepared to support and engage their Net Generation learners in using technology effectively in a CLIL context. Following earlier research, this paper focuses on the illustration of different digital literacy strategies carried out at Centro Universitario Cardenal Cisneros considered necessary for effective and pedagogical learning in emerging CLIL environments. To date, the discourse on both of these important issues has been practice-oriented, and lacks integrative strategies or theoretical foundation. This lacuna in the current discourse on linking CLIL with digital literacies, calls for a theoretically-grounded view of the digital literacies required for effective learning in CLIL situations. The purpose of this article is to propose some strategies to enable motivating and effective content and language integrated learning using digital literacies.