Bilingual Physical Education as a way to motivate learning in a foreign language. Preliminary study based on the Trans-Contextual Model

Abstract

The aim of this research was to study the relationship between the perception of a climate of support for autonomy, autonomous motivation in Physical Education PE and learning in Foreign Language (LE), the Willingness to communicate in FL for the four linguistic skills, and the qualifications in the area of ​​LE. The sample of this preliminary study consisted of 401 students (169 boys and 232 girls), with an average age of 13.7 years, of courses from first of ESO to first of Bachelor´s degree of the province of Almería. A questionnaire was used with several questions and with the Language Learning Orientations Scale-Intrinsic Motivation scale, the Extrinsic Motivation and Amotivation Subscales questionnaire, the Sport Motivation Scale for EF, the Learning Climate Questionnaire and the Willingness to Communicate in the Classroom scale. Descriptive analyzes, correlation and structural models were carried out. In conclusion, it can be affirmed that in the case of autonomous motivation in CLIL EF, there is a “trans-contextual leap” from the context of the PE to that of the FL.