Clil program designed to teach music and english in preschool education

• Verónica Asensio Arjona ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat de Barcelona

     Universitat de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Music education and didactic materials / coord. por Rosa María Vicente Álvarez, Carol Gillanders, Jesús Rodríguez Rodríguez, Guilherme Romanelli, Jessica Pitt, 2020, ISBN 978-84-122480-2-9, págs. 247-256
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Music and Language are connected fields because Music is a language and both Music and Language are universal human capacities (Toscano-Fuentes, & Fonseca, 2012). Musical intelligence influences emotional, spiritual and cultural development more than the other intelligences (Gardner, 1993). Working with songs is a relevant tool for motivation, since they create an affective link between the personal life of the learners and the learning of a foreign language. Under this theoretical context, a CLIL program for Music and English in Preschool education was designed for the main objectives of developing Music and English competences at the same time and level. The application of this program was carried out for three consecutive years at the state school of Can Vidalet, in Barcelona. After the execution on an evaluation study, the first partial findings were obtained. The teacher’s observation diary and interviews (with students, teachers and parents) are the main tools used in this research. The partial findings show that the application of this program achieved a growth in student motivation and interest for both subjects; more significant learning of the contents of both subjects is achieved; and competence development was produced by students in both subjects