Web-Based Frameworks for CLIL in Primary School: Design, Implementation, Pilot Experimentation and Results

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an immersive pedagogical approach where the learners’ foreign language represents the medium of classroom instruction. In this paper we will dis- cuss its applicability to primary school, addressing children aged between 6 and 7. Such an approach, relatively novel due to the young age of students, requires ad hoc pedagogical methods, learning resources and multimedia interactive interfaces in order to foster bilingualism and – potentially – even multilingualism. This work will cover all the aspects involved, starting from an overview of the state of the art, defining the research questions, describing the design and implementation of suitable Web solutions, showing a pilot experimentation, and finally discussing the obtained results.