This End-of-Master's degree project aims to study how tasks which are cognitively
challenging work in CLIL lessons in Primary Education. In order to do so, research on concepts
such as cognition, memory, motivation or CLIL was done, as well as some legal framework
has been also described. Furthermore, activities designed by a proper CLIL teacher who is
actively working at the moment have been analysed. Finally, a situated cognition task has been
developed in an Artistic Education CLIL class, in 6th grade of Primary Education in Tegueste,
during the internship period.
KEY WORDS: CLIL, content, language, cognition, motivation, complex learning,
memory, foreign, activity.
