Learners’ perception of CLIL approach on an ESP textbook : English for tourist guides

Abstract

         Content and Language Integrated Learning or CLIL is a language teaching and learning approach focusing on subject knowledge and competencies in a foreign language. The approach creates familiar content for students to step up their communicative skills from what their environment offers to them. This study investigates1) universitystudents’ perception on the CLIL approach in the English for Tourist Guides textbook,and 2) examinesthe effect of their internship experience on theirperception. Respondents were 56 students who studied English for Tradition and Culture of Thailand course at theuniversity at theresearch site. The research tool is a questionnaire adopted from López-Medina (2021) for the CLIL textbook, and means is applied for data analysis. Results revealed thatthe studentsperceived their textbook good for the CLIL approach; particularly the structure, supplementary materials, and physical and utilitarian features were at goodlevelsby means of 51.79, 44.64, and 39.29, respectively. Concerning the 4Cs curriculum that consisted of content, communication, cognition, and culture, the students agreedthat the four factors are at good levelsby means of 40.33, 40.48, 40.28, and 44.13, respectively. This appliedto the level of integrated language by means of 49.01, and 55.36 for integration.