Interculturality in the Science Classroom Within the Context of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Practices from Indonesian Primary Schools

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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_48How to use a DOI?

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CLIL; interculturality; intercultural awareness; primary schools; young learners

Abstract

Interculturality in science classroom with CLIL context is crucial for establishing intercultural awareness and supporting students in developing relevant abilities to deal with intercultural interactions. Different techniques can be implemented for introducing cultural values within teaching and learning process as well as instructional materials. This is a virtual ethnography of three grade one female science teachers in Islamic primary schools of Indonesia to investigate intercultural practices from the teaching and learning activities and their congruency with the instructional materials. By in-depth interviews, virtual observations, as well as text-book analysis, the data of this study were obtained and then codified to get the emerging themes to discuss. Thematic analysis was employed and members checking was carried out for trustworthiness. Findings revealed that all participants of the study agreed the intercultural practices in their science class. They systematically planned their teaching with intercultural integration but they did not implicitly provide particular section in the Lesson Plan. In fact, they confirmed that they selected texts or resources which possibly strengthen the students’ intercultural awareness. While only a participant who used series of books which aligned the international curriculum with Indonesian national curriculum, the other two participants used series of books published in Singapore and London with emphasis on internationally-content based to meet fully requirements of the Cambridge International Examinations Primary Science Curriculum Framework. Each intercultural practice was also discussed in this article. Suggestions are proposed to facilitate an interculturality integrated CLIL science pedagogy that is relevant to Indonesia's socio-educational context.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rina Wahyu Setyaningrum
AU  - Fadini Sabilah
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/18
TI  - Interculturality in the Science Classroom Within the Context of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Practices from Indonesian Primary Schools
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 554
EP  - 568
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_48
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_48
ID  - Setyaningrum2023
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