Improving higher education internationalization through CLIL at the secondary level

Abstract

Internationalization of higher education has become a relevant issue for universities and other institutions around the globe. This occurs due to different rationales, including increased international deeper engagement by students, improved quality of teaching and learning, enhanced prestige for the institution, amongst others. Despite the benefits of internationalization, most governments and academia initiatives focus majorly, if not exclusively, on higher education instead of considering a multilevel approach, so as to improve the overall quality of both the internationalization process and the education level in their institutions. In this paper, we aim at obtaining perceptions from students' on how to improve language skills for higher education and opportunities for internationalization. To that, we conducted a survey research with Brazilian IT (Information and Technology) both vocational and higher education students considering opportunities on technical English-based content delivery. Results from the survey analyses show that the CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) practice during vocational technical secondary programs is a key factor to enhance the achievement of internationalization when students go to college.

Community-Centered, Internationalization at Home based Plan for the Global Student Citizenship

“…The main findings in the research can be summarized in the main points: (i) vocational students realized the importance of EMI in their training; and (ii) undergraduate students believe that an EMI-based course can expand their opportunities, including international ones, if there is such an offer at the IFRN. All the details of the research and the results can be analyzed in our previous work in [10].…”