Investigating Teachers ’Awareness of using CLIL in Iraqi Secondary schools in Basra

Abstract

    The goal of this study is to investigate teachers' awareness of the importance of using CLIL in teaching scientific subjects and to explore the extent of teachers' proficiency in skills of integrating language and content in teaching scientific subjects in everyday classroom. To collect data, 52 teachers were tested using a questionnaire to assess the level of their performance. Data analysis was conducted by using SPSS software according to T-test formula. Fisher Equation has also been used to extract the weighted mean and the percentage weight for each item. The data were analysed descriptively and the findings of the study indicated that most teachers are really unaware of using CLIL as an important approach in everyday instructions although they conduct some of the skills or techniques. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that using CLIL approach should be taken into consideration for its vital role to improve learning process. Integrating all aspects in CLIL has significant influence to develop both the content (the subject matter) and the language simultaneously.