Keywords: The Basque Autonomous Community, Soft CLIL, perception, attitudes 1 Introduction In Europe, children are learning subjects such as history, geography and science in their second or third language in primary and secondary school. The results obtained seem to confirm that Soft CLIL plays a positive role as a pre-stage to advance to Hard CLIL (Content-driven). The students who want to study subjects in English perceive the effect of Soft CLIL more than the others. The results show that attitudes towards studying subjects in English are positive among overall students, whereas the majority of them want to learn subjects in Basque.
For them it is the 8th year to study English and 5th month to study subjects in English, in Soft CLIL. The participants (n = 127) are 1st year secondary students. The object of this study is to investigate how the students think about studying subjects in English, in the form of Soft CLIL (language-driven) in the Basque-medium school. EEE'14 3 Students Perception towards Soft CLIL in the Basque Secondary Schools Chiharu Nakanishi 1 and Hodaka Nakanishi 2 1 Music Department, Kunitachi College of Music, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan 2 Joint Program Center, Teikyo University, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo, Japan Abstract - The Basque Autonomous Community, which is a bilingual community of Basque and Spanish, has adopted CLIL as a method to teach English as a foreign language with on-line materials as well as written materials.
EEE'14 1 SESSION LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS, E-LEARNING + EDUCATIONAL TOOLS, AND RELATED ISSUES Chair(s) TBAĢ 2 Int'l Conf.