Clil in speaking skills

Abstract

The use of traditional teaching methods in education has been considered for a long time as the only resource for the development of productive skills, the present research work has as a general objective to analyze the influence of the Integrated Learning of Contents and Foreign Languages CLIL in the development of students' oral skills. To know what students need to improve, the speaking part of a preliminary English test (PET) was applied as a pre and post-test. After the pre-test results, the students' overall average revealed that they were below the educational standards, which is why the element is intended to be improved through the Lesson Plan and use a comparison study retrieved with statistical calculations. Thus, some CLIL activities were developed in a syntax class to improve students’ speaking skill development. After that, in terms of the students, it was possible to take the post-test and see that the average in the post-test had a significant improvement since a difference of 5.1 was reached, which is a significant figure. Concluding that students had an oral improvement by using CLIL method.