CLIL effects on writing performance and overall proficiency of secondary school students

Abstract

This Study aims at checking the influence of CLIL over the Writing performance and overall proficiency in Secondary School learners of English as a Foreign Language. For the study, several tests and Compositions from 115 students coming from the database of the BAF project were used. Results showed superiority for Grade 7 and 10 students over their counterparts from the same grades in Proficiency tests and the Writing analysis. When groups from different grades were compared, CLIL Grade 9 learners had better scores than their Grade 10 counterparts. No significant differences were found when Grades 7 and 10 were compared. According to these results, CLIL lessons seem to help saving a distance of up to 3 years of instruction among Foreing Language learners.