Innovations in Content and Language Teaching by integrating EdTech in the new Higher Education paradigm

Abstract

In the current higher education paradigm, the integration of technologies has become necessary but not always effective. The main objectives of this study are (a) to provide a repertoire of some current and well-known technological tools that have demonstrated to be efficient to teach content through a foreign language; (b) to analyse if with the use of the technological tools proposed comprehension is eased, and the support provided guarantees more effective learning. The instruments to determine the Faculty of Education students’ perception of the effectiveness of the technological tools used in the CLIL subject are two questionnaires. The first questionnaire attempts to check students’ prior knowledge about the use of some technological tools. The second questionnaire attempts to verify if incorporating the use of the previous technological tools have helped them to (a) understand better the content in English (b) create meaningful activities to teach content through a foreign language as future teachers. As main results and general conclusions, we could state that although the pre-test shows that students were not very familiarized with most of the tools, they used them to create their own activities successfully. Through the analysis of their final marks, we have verified that with the use of these tools the number of failures has been reduced and in general, the marks have been higher.