HOTS is important in CLIL

CLIL stands for Content and Lenguage Integrated Learning. It means to learn whatever no-linguistic subject through seconds lenguages, in our case, in English. In CLIL is important how students learn, that is metacognition and then it is also important the process how we learn and overall how we learn the content better because the acquisition of the lenguage is a value-add in the way. Firstly, we have to understand about thinking process. In 50', Dr. Benjamin Bloom gave us a list for identify levels of thinking. Forty years later, it was revised by a former of Bloom, Lorin Anderson, and the research changed verbs into names and gave us a new order of thinking skills. On the top of them, there is the creative level and the evaluation and on the bottom, it is 'remembering', the level of de recall information, describing, finding, listing and naming. Secondly, we should know, also, about a new concept coined by the professor Jim Cummins. The term is CUP. CUP stands for Common Underlying Proficiency. This theory give us a new idea about our linguistic knowledge. This idea refers that we learn linguistic basis through our mother tongue and we won't have to learn them anymore to acquire L2. This theory supports the idea that it becomes easier and easier to learn additional lenguages Finally, we have to talk about methodology and the activities because they are important for teachers to enhance in the levels of thinking skills and simultaneously scaffolding the lenguage as a metaphor of you have to slow down in order to go quickly. In order to learn a second lenguage it is recommended to start with orally skills like listetening and speaking. On the other hand, we should go on with cognitive skills like reading and writing and finally we achieve the higher order of thinking skills (HOTS). http://esl.fis.edu/teachers/support/cummin.htm