Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms

2010
Language Use and Language Learning in CLIL Classrooms

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  • Author: Christiane Dalton-Puffer
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 902720523X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 309

This volume explores a highly topical issue in second and foreign language education: the spreading practice in mainstream education to teach content subjects through a foreign language. CLIL has been enthusiastically embraced as a language enrichment measure in many contexts and finally research can offer principled insights into its dynamics and potentials. The editors introductory and concluding chapters offer a synthesis of current CLIL research as well as a critical discussion of unresolved issues relating both to theoretical concerns and research practice. The individual contributions by authors from a range of European contexts report on current empirical research in this dynamic field. The focus of these chapters ranges from theoretical to empirical, from learning outcomes to classroom talk, examining both the written and spoken mode across secondary and tertiary educational contexts. This volume is a valuable resource not only for researchers and teachers but also for policy makers."

Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms

2007
Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms

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  • Author: Christiane Dalton-Puffer
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9789027219794
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 352

The label CLIL stands for classrooms where a foreign language (English) is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. This book provides a first in-depth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are embodied in such CLIL classrooms. It examines teacher and student talk at secondary school level from different discourse-analytic angles, taking into account the interpersonal pragmatics of classroom discourse and how school subjects are talked into being during lessons. The analysis shows how CLIL classroom interaction is strongly shaped by its institutional context, which in turn conditions the ways in which students experience, use and learn the target language. The research presented here suggests that CLIL programmes require more explicit language learning goals in order to fully exploit their potential for furthering the learners' appropriation of a foreign language as a medium of learning.

The Roles of Language in CLIL

2012-03-15
The Roles of Language in CLIL

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  • Author: Ana Llinares
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521150078
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 354

An examination of how language functions in CLIL, based on a corpus of classroom interactions. Drawing on their wide experience as CLIL educators and researchers, the authors explore data collected in real CLIL classrooms from two interrelated perspectives: the CLIL classroom as an interactional context for developing language and content, and the genres and registers through which the meanings of the different academic subjects are enacted. From the analysis of this corpus of data, the authors provide a rich description of how CLIL students' language works and may be expected to develop. Also available separately as a hardback.

Content and Language Integrated Learning

2009-05-11
Content and Language Integrated Learning

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  • Author: Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847691668
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 251

This book contributes to the growth of interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an approach to second/foreign language learning that requires the use of the target language to learn content. Within the framework of European strategies to promote multilingualism, CLIL has begun to be used extensively in a variety of language learning contexts, and at different educational systems and language programmes. This book brings together critical analyses on theoretical and implementation issues of Content and Language Integrated Learning, and empirical studies on the effectiveness of this type of instruction on learners’ language competence. The basic theoretical assumption behind this book is that through successful use of the language to learn content, learners will develop their language proficiency more effectively while they learn the academic content specified in the curricula.

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Europe

2013
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Europe

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  • Author: Stephan Breidbach
  • Publisher: Peter Land Edition
  • ISBN: 9783631644003
  • Category : Education, Bilingual
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 0

This book links the growing empirical knowledge about the full complexity of CLIL to the European educational and language policies. Its contributors present research findings from several European countries on learning processes and learner achievement in CLIL as well as conceptual analyses in the light of the current policies of mainstreaming CLIL.

Content and Language Integrated Learning in Spanish and Japanese Contexts

2019-11-23
Content and Language Integrated Learning in Spanish and Japanese Contexts

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  • Author: Keiko Tsuchiya
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030274438
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 434

This edited book compiles pedagogical practices and studies of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) from two sites: Spain, where CLIL has been widely implemented for more than a decade, and Japan, where the CLIL approach is still in its relative infancy, and quickly gaining momentum. Focusing on three aspects of the CLIL implementations: policy, practice and pedagogy, the authors describe how CLIL has evolved in distinctive socio-political, historical and cultural contexts. The chapters range across primary, secondary and tertiary education, and examine English language teaching and learning at both the macro level - through language education policy - and the micro level - with a focus on classroom interaction and pedagogy. This book fills a gap in the English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) literature, and will be of particular interest to language teachers, teacher trainers, and students and scholars of applied linguistics more broadly.

Content and Language Integrated Learning

2017-10-02
Content and Language Integrated Learning

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  • Author: Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1317352823
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

This book explores some of the recent research undertaken on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). It offers an overview of several European contexts, describing experiences that could be extrapolated to many other communities worldwide. Contributions focus on issues related to language policy, moving from high-level policymaking to grassroots decisions, but all of them encompassing the major changes that can be recognized in education, which also evidence the shifts in society and economic life that have taken place in Europe in the last decades. These changes in language policy issues are coupled with changes in CLIL practice in the classroom. These national initiatives are displayed across a wide range of educational perspectives, portraying the diversity that is a distinctive feature of CLIL in the European educational mosaic. By providing new insights into pedagogic, methodological, and language policy issues in CLIL, and by covering some areas which have been insufficiently addressed in the literature, such as the implementation of CLIL in ‘less successful’ contexts, or learner-teacher collaboration in the classroom, this book will be of great value to researchers, stakeholders and professionals interested in CLIL and language education. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

Assessment and Learning in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms

2020-11-17
Assessment and Learning in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms

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  • Author: Mark deBoer
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030541282
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 284

This volume builds a conceptual basis for assessment promoting learning in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classrooms and proposes practical assessment approaches and activities that CLIL teachers can apply in the classroom. CLIL as an educational context is unique, as language and content learning happen simultaneously. The efficacy of such instruction has been studied extensively, but assessment in CLIL classrooms has drawn much less attention. The present volume aims to fill this gap. Arranged based on different ways that content and language are integrated in CLIL, the chapters in this book together build a solid theoretical basis for assessment promoting learning in CLIL classrooms. The authors discuss how assessment eliciting this integration yields insights into learners' abilities, but more importantly, how these insights are used to promote learning. The contributors to the volume together build the understanding of classroom-based assessment as cyclic, of teaching, learning, and assessment as inter-related, and of content and language in CLIL classrooms as a dialectical unity. This volume will spark interest in and discussion of classroom-based assessment in CLIL among CLIL educators and researchers, enable reflection of classroom assessment practices, and foster collaboration between CLIL teachers and researchers. The assessment approaches and activities discussed in the volume, in turn, will help educators understand the scope of applications of assessment and inspire them to adapt these to their own classrooms.

Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms

2021-05-15
Teaching, Learning and Scaffolding in CLIL Science Classrooms

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  • Author: Yuen Yi Lo
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027259798
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 191

This edited volume presents a collection of empirical studies examining the teaching and learning processes in science classrooms in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts. It is a timely contribution to the rapidly growing body of CLIL research in response to scholars’ consistent calls for more classroom-based research on the issues in integration of content and language teaching in lessons. With the dual goal of content and language learning, students in CLIL programmes are also facing double challenges – mastery of abstract, cognitively demanding content knowledge and unfamiliar academic language. Focusing on the notion of “scaffolding”, this edited volume demonstrates how science teachers can provide appropriate and timely scaffolding for their students to overcome the challenges in CLIL science classrooms. With studies from different educational settings (Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore and Australia) and epistemological paradigms, and adopting a variety of research designs, this volume will provide key insights into CLIL pedagogy and teacher education. Originally published as special issue of Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 7:2 (2019).

CLIL in Action

2015-10-05
CLIL in Action

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  • Author: María Luisa Pérez Cañado
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 1443883948
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 210

This volume explores the current position of CLIL on the three main fronts where it is attracting particular attention in specialized literature, namely, implementation, research, and teacher training. To this end, it presents evidence from national and international research projects, governmentally-financed pedagogical initiatives, grassroots experiences and investigations, and inter-institutional training programs which offer insights into how CLIL is working in action on the afore-mentioned three levels. The opening section of the book (“CLIL in action: Practical considerations”) provides a window into how CLIL implementation is unravelling at the grassroots level vis-á-vis key aspects for CLIL development, such as the design of materials, the use of ICT, and the importance of extramural exposure. The second part (“The effects of CLIL on language learning: Research-based evidence”) explores some key areas for future research, showcasing how engaging in research as a device that drives reflection is the best possible way to continue moving the CLIL agenda forward. Finally, in the third part (“Preparing teachers for CLIL: Practical proposals”), the interface of research and pedagogy is discussed, as the former informs the latter in a clear instantiation of what Coyle (2011) terms “evidence-based practice” in setting necessary teacher training actions in place. As such, the volume addresses three burning issues in the CLIL scenario through practical and research-based proposals of tried-and-true CLIL development. If all three strands – implementation, research, and training – dovetail and progress in harmony, a solid template will be built for the future and the CLIL agenda will be pushed forward. By pooling together the insights of a set of researchers, teacher trainers, policy makers, and grassroots practitioners, this volume will contribute to this much-needed endeavour.