Teachers’ Efficiency of CLIL implementation to Reach Bilingualism in Primary Education

Abstract

The pivotal objective of this research is to investigate the degree of knowledge and the teachers’ capacity to implement CLIL methodology, as a tool to reach bilingualism in Primary Education in Madrid Community.To this aim, questionnaires were administered to 75 Primary school teachers of Natural and/or Social Sciences to perform a quatitative correlational analysis to determine the degree of CLIL implementation in relation to the teachers’ being bilingual. After basing the topic on previous investigations delving into the phenomenon of bilingualism and the theory of CLIL, this article presents the research design and data analysis; and outlines its main findings in relation to teachers’ self-identification with being bilingual and the implementation of the four principles of CLIL in the classroom, and the use of didactic resources. The findings of this research point to the necessity of teacher-training programmes in CLIL methodology to improve the teachers’ understanding and implementation of this method to ensure better students’ academic performance in bilingual programmes.