The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE

A Master of Arts thesis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) by Marwa I. A. Younes entitled, "The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE," submitted May 2016. Thesis advisor is Dr. Fatima Badry. Soft and hard cop...

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Main Author: Younes, Marwa I. A. (author)
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
L2 learning
L1 knowledge
content learning
teachers' perspectives
Language and languages
Study and teaching (Secondary)
United Arab Emirates
English language
Arabic language
Arabic speakers
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spelling The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAEYounes, Marwa I. A.CLILContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)L2 learningL1 knowledgecontent learningteachers' perspectivesLanguage and languagesStudy and teaching (Secondary)United Arab EmiratesEnglish languageArabic languageArabic speakersA Master of Arts thesis in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) by Marwa I. A. Younes entitled, "The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE," submitted May 2016. Thesis advisor is Dr. Fatima Badry. Soft and hard copy available.The present study investigated the impact of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach, as applied in a private school in the UAE, on students' L2 learning, L1 knowledge and content learning. It also analyzed secondary teachers' perspectives on the outcomes of CLIL programs regarding content and language learning. The first section of the study focuses on students' general language proficiency by examining one of their writing assignments in each language. First, the assignments were analyzed, to assess students' organization, vocabulary and language structure in English and Arabic writing skills. The second section focuses on students' academic performance reflected in the researcher' own rating as her grading in science (taught in English) and in social studies (taught in Arabic). Results revealed that the overall linguistic proficiency of the students in English was better than their proficiency in Arabic. The results also revealed a positive correlation between the students' academic achievement (content learning) and their linguistic proficiency in the language used in instruction. In addition, the lexical complexity analysis revealed that the students used a wide range of vocabulary and used more lexical words than function words in English compared to Arabic. Similarly, the syntactic analysis showed that students produced more coordinated clauses than subordinate clauses, thus inferring that structure did not benefit from the CLIL instruction. The third section presents teachers' responses to the questionnaire. The results showed that the majority of the participants felt that CLIL has a positive impact on L2 and content learning but were concerned about the negative impact of CLIL on the students' L1 knowledge.College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of EnglishMaster of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (MA TESOL)Badry, Fatima2016-06-07T08:34:01Z2016-06-07T08:34:01Z2016-05info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesisapplication/pdf29.232-2016.04http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8333en_USoai:repository.aus.edu:11073/83332025-06-26T12:24:26Z
spellingShingle The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
Younes, Marwa I. A.
CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
L2 learning
L1 knowledge
content learning
teachers' perspectives
Language and languages
Study and teaching (Secondary)
United Arab Emirates
English language
Arabic language
Arabic speakers
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title The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
title_full The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
title_fullStr The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
title_short The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
title_sort The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
topic CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
L2 learning
L1 knowledge
content learning
teachers' perspectives
Language and languages
Study and teaching (Secondary)
United Arab Emirates
English language
Arabic language
Arabic speakers
url http://hdl.handle.net/11073/8333