The Integration of Biology Content Lessons in the English Curriculum through

6.1.2. Participants
This study was implemented with 8
th
graders one time per week until 
implementing six lessons. Each lesson had a range of time that varied from one to two 
hours. It is common for this institution to have two or three courses of the same grade 
(a8/8b/8c). In this sense, the project was conducted in the group 8°B, and the selection 
of the same was depending on mainly schedules looking for the one that matched the 
better with researchers’ time. The amount of time these students have of English is 3 
hours per week, and 2 hours of biology. The learners’ ages varied in a range between 
13 and 16 years old, and their role in this project did not vary from their regular duties 
and/or behaviors in the regular classes.
The other participants involved in this project were the English and biology 
teachers, which had the role to provide to the researchers the current topics students 
were developing each week. However, the most important contribution for this project 
was provided by the Biology teacher, who gave to the researchers the space of time to 

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implement, during her class, the reinforcement of the Biology content directed in 
English. Additionally the English teacher provided to the researchers meaningful 
information related to students’ main interests, and behaviors towards the current 
language topics. 
6.2. INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN
The main focus of this study was to carry out Soft CLIL procedures through each 
lesson in order to increase the student's language proficiency in English through the 
articulation with the biology content. The researchers contemplated that during the 
implementation of the lessons and along this study there were certain problems that 
could be faced, but for each of them, there was a possible solution to deal with them. 
Furthermore, some of the materials needed such as video projector and computer, were 
provided by the researchers; however, some others were provided by the institution, 
such as markers and board. Among other materials, it was considered the use of 
worksheets or study guides which were created by the researchers according to the 
lesson and context requirements.