CLICK (Linguistic competence centers-integrated project)

Objective

The project competition Linguistics integrated centres (CLICK) It aims to improve the learning process of students thanks to the development of competence in linguistic communication.

Basic skills

A core competence is the way that anyone uses their personal resources (skills, attitudes, knowledge and experience) for active and responsible act in the construction of his project of life both personal and social.

As a whole, they involve the development of capacities, not only the acquisition of punctual and decontextualized contents, and they are able to functionally use knowledge and skills in different contexts to develop answers, actions and attitudes previously unscheduled.

Its goals are to achieve personal fulfilment, exercising active citizenship, Merge to adulthood in a satisfactory manner and be able to develop a lifelong learning throughout life.

Within the framework of the proposal made by the European Union, eight core competencies have been identified:

• Competence in linguistic communication.
• Mathematical competition.
• Competition in knowledge and interaction with the physical world.
• Treatment of information and digital competence.
• Social competence and civic.
• Cultural and artistic competition.
• Competition for learning to learn.
• Autonomy and personal initiative.

Competition in linguistic communication

It refers to the use of language as an instrument for oral and written communication, representation, interpretation and understanding of reality, construction and communication of knowledge and organization and self-regulation of thought, emotions and behavior.

Knowledge, skills and attitudes of this competition can express thoughts, emotions, experiences and opinions, as well as dialogue, become a critical and ethical judgment, generate ideas, structuring knowledge, give coherence and consistency to the speech and the actions and tasks, decisions, and enjoy listening to, reading or speaking in oral and written form, all of which contributes to the development of self-esteem and confidence in itself.

In the case of foreign languages, This competition means to communicate in some of them and, with this, enrich social relations and engage in contexts other than their own. Also, It favours access to more and different sources of information, communication and learning.

The contribution of linguistic communication competition to other basic skills development is key, as can be seen in the chart below.

Scheme of Felipe Zayas published on his blog Give the language

In synthesis, the development of linguistic competence involves the mastery of the language orally and in writing in multiple contexts, and the functional use of, at least, a foreign language, in our case the English.

What is the participation of the IES in the project?

The year 2011/12 of the Cidacos Valley IES was chosen by the Ministry of education as the only Center high school of La Rioja to pilot a new project, so-called linguistic Center project (PLC), to create a roadmap for mejorarel teaching/learning process of the students riojanosmediante the development of competence in linguistic communication.

This year, the PLC has passed to be called project click and is open to the rest of the community centres. Our Center, based on the work already done last year, continues to work on the improvement of competence in linguistic communication and participates in this project with a total of 24 teachers belonging to 9 different departments, being the first Institute of La Rioja by number of registered teachers.

Coordinated by the departments of English and Spanish language we want our students to be able to improve their competence in linguistic communication in cross-sectional way in all their subjects, that will lead to a significant improvement of their academic results in all of them.