Resumen de Improving higher education internationalization through CLIL at the secondary level
Helber Wagner da Silva, Marcelo Henrique Carneiro Camilo, Keila Cruz Moreira
Internationalization of higher education has become a relevant issue for university 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, among others. Despite the benefits on the internationalization, most governments and academia initiatives focus only at the higher education instead of considering a multi-level approach, thus being limited to improve the overall quality of the internationalization process. In this paper, we aim at obtaining comprehension on the students’ beliefs and perceptions on how to improve internationalization for the higher education. To that, we conducted a survey research with Brazilian IT (Information and Technology) vocational and higher education students considering opportunities on technical English-based content delivery. Results from the survey analyses based on responses from the participants show that internationalization using CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) during vocational technical courses is a key factor to enhance the achievement of internationalization when students get involved in a higher education course in the future.
