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The Faculty of Business and Communication recently started an
internationalization process that, in two year’s time, will allow all undergraduate
students (studying Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public
Relations, Business and Marketing) to take 25% of their subjects in English using
CLIL methodology. Currently, Journalism is the degree course with the greatest
percentage of CLIL subjects, for example Current Affairs Workshop, a subject
dedicated to analyzing current news using opinion genres. Moreover, because of
the lack of other subjects offered in English, ERASMUS students have to take
some journalism subjects in order to complete their international passport, and one
of the classes they choose is the Current Affairs Workshop. The aim of this paper
is to explore how CLIL methodology can be useful for learning journalistic opinion
genres (chat-shows, discussions and debates) in a subject where Catalan
Communication students –with different levels of English- share their knowledge
with European students of other social disciplines. Students work in
multidisciplinary groups in which they develop real radio and TV programs,
adopting all the roles (moderator, technician, producer and participants), analyzing
daily newspapers and other sources to create content, based on current affairs.
This paper is based on the participant observation of the lecturers of the subject,
who have designed different activities related to journalistic genres, where students
can develop their skills according to the role they play in every assignment.
Examples of successful lessons will be given, in addition to the results of the
course: both positive and negative. Although the objective of the course is to
examine professional routines related to opinion genres, and students are not
directly graded on their level of English, the Catalan students come to appreciate
how they finally overcome their fear of working in a foreign language. This is a
basic result of their experience. |
