Soft CLIL and English Language Teaching

Soft CLIL and English Language Teaching

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  • Author: Makoto Ikeda
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0429628196
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 143

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a transformative and powerful approach to language education and has had a significant impact on educational pedagogy in recent years. Despite burgeoning literature on the efficacy and implementation of CLIL, there remains a gap between CLIL and English Language Teaching (ELT). Many practitioners wonder how they can ‘do CLIL’ if their main classes are focused on English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This volume addresses these concerns by examining the experiences of various CLIL practitioners in the EFL context of Japan. Chapters outline the CLIL methodology, the differences in ‘hard CLIL’ (subject led) and ‘soft CLIL’ (language-oriented) before focusing on the EFL interpretations of soft-CLIL. Although the distinction of hard CLIL and soft CLIL has been mentioned in several publications, this is the first book-length exploration of this issue, featuring chapters examining expectations, challenges, material support, implementation, and even motivation in CLIL classrooms. All of this culminates in a review of the potential and future of CLIL in EFL contexts, paving the way for more widespread and well informed implementation of CLIL all over the world.


Developing Materials for Innovative Teaching and Sustainable Learning

Developing Materials for Innovative Teaching and Sustainable Learning

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  • Author: Andrzej Cirocki
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031692063
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 514


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

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.


Developing Global Awareness for Global Citizenship Education

Developing Global Awareness for Global Citizenship Education

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  • Author: Hongtao Jing
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 9819941792
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 183

This book has explored in depth the beliefs and practices of foreign language teachers regarding global awareness in the context of a Chinese senior high school. This book defines global awareness as a combination of global knowledge, global attitudes, and global skills for a global citizen to act from the local community to the global community. By analysing qualitative data such as classroom observations, interviews and focus groups with language teachers and linking these findings to language education policy and practice in China, this book has explored how English language teachers teach English language, intercultural communicative competence and global awareness in China. This book will be of interest to researchers, language teachers and students in the fields of language education and intercultural communication. It also provides a readable overview for those new to the field of ICC and global citizenship education.


Language Education Policies in Multilingual Settings

Language Education Policies in Multilingual Settings

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  • Author: Laura Gurney
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031574842
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226


Content and Language Integrated Learning in South America

Content and Language Integrated Learning in South America

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  • Author: Yolanda Ruiz de Zarobe
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3031529863
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 229


Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa

Multilingual Learning and Language Supportive Pedagogies in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Author: Elizabeth J. Erling
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000379477
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

This edited collection provides unprecedented insight into the emerging field of multilingual education in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Multilingual education is claimed to have many benefits, amongst which are that it can improve both content and language learning, especially for learners who may have low ability in the medium of instruction and are consequently struggling to learn. The book represents a range of Sub-Saharan school contexts and describes how multilingual strategies have been developed and implemented within them to support the learning of content and language. It looks at multilingual learning from several points of view, including ‘translanguaging’, or the use of multiple languages – and especially African languages – for learning and language-supportive pedagogy, or the implementation of a distinct pedagogy to support learners working through the medium of a second language. The book puts forward strategies for creating materials, classroom environments and teacher education programmes which support the use of all of a student’s languages to improve language and content learning. The contexts which the book describes are challenging, including low school resourcing, poverty and low literacy in the home, and school policy which militates against the use of African languages in school. The volume also draws on multilingual education approaches which have been successfully carried out in higher resource countries and lend themselves to being adapted for use in SSA. It shows how multilingual learning can bring about transformation in education and provides inspiration for how these strategies might spread and be further developed to improve learning in schools in SSA and beyond. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.


(Re)imagining Translanguaging Pedagogies through Teacher–Researcher Collaboration

(Re)imagining Translanguaging Pedagogies through Teacher–Researcher Collaboration

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  • Author: Leah Shepard-Carey
  • Publisher: Channel View Publications
  • ISBN: 180041319X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 292

This book presents one possible pathway towards the advancement of translanguaging pedagogies: teacher–researcher partnerships. Although the existing literature alludes to the value of such partnerships, there is a lack of research that explicitly describes the complex processes of designing and implementing translanguaging pedagogies in primary and secondary school settings (K-12) across various international contexts. Through an expanded focus on teacher–researcher collaboration and the negotiation process, the book unpacks the opportunities and challenges of engaging in contextualized translanguaging designs with reference to broader ideological discourses and systemic structures. By promoting and highlighting teacher–researcher partnerships as one avenue for improvement and transparency, the chapters in this book demonstrate the potential of translanguaging pedagogies in classrooms and further resist the linguistic hierarchies that exist in educational institutions today.


Global Perspectives on Effective Assessment in English Language Teaching

Global Perspectives on Effective Assessment in English Language Teaching

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  • Author: Fernández Álvarez, Miguel
  • Publisher: IGI Global
  • ISBN: 1668482142
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 307

English language programs depend on the effective assessment of the measure of student proficiency for purposes of placement, advancement, and completion. A variety of approaches may be adopted depending on the program, its objectives, and the students it serves. Teachers and administrators in many contexts may also be required to meet institutional accountability expectations, often externally imposed and related to accreditation standards. The need for appropriate and accurate assessment of student learning, whether internally sought or externally required, provides the opportunity for teachers and administrators to consider current practices, implement reforms, and because of ongoing assessment findings, improve student learning through curricular change, teacher training, and modification of classroom practice. Global Perspectives on Effective Assessment in English Language Teaching explores approaches, models, principles, and techniques related to effective assessment at the classroom and program levels. Covering topics such as language program evaluation, curriculum alignment, and alternative assessment methods, this book is ideal for classroom teachers, administrators, researchers, and students.


Handbook of Early Language Education

Handbook of Early Language Education

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  • Author: Mila Schwartz
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030916626
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 939

This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to give a survey of the topic, highlight its importance, and provide a critical stance. The book covers preschool ages, and looks at children belonging to diverse ethno-linguistic groups and experiencing different histories and pathways of their socio-linguistic and socio-cultural development and early education. The languages under the scope of this handbook are identified by the contributors as immigrant languages, indigenous, endangered, heritage, regional, minority, majority, and marginalized, as well as foreign and second languages, all of which are discussed in relation to early language education as the key concept of the handbook. In this volume, “early language education” will refer to any kind of setting, both formal and informal (e.g. nursery, kindergarten, early childhood education centers, complementary early schooling etc.) in which language learning within a context of children's sociolinguistic diversity takes place before elementary school.