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

Resumen

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