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Sánchez, Laura – English Language Teaching, 2019
In an era of globalization, multilingualism is no longer the exception but the rule. To fully promote the communicative and functional development of multilingual learners, different educational programs at school have been implemented in the past few years. The study presented here is a contribution in this direction, by investigating the…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Cognitive Ability, Second Language Instruction, German
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Nightingale, Richard; Safont, Pilar – English Language Teaching, 2019
As academic language skills develop, young learners are able to rise to the challenge of increasingly complex communication in increasingly formal settings (Snow, 2014; Uccelli et al., 2015). Studies suggest that CLIL contexts may favour the development of academic language skills (Dalton-Puffer, 2007; Nikula, 2007; Marsh, 2008; Pasqual Peña,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Discourse
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Guzmán-Alcón, Irene – English Language Teaching, 2019
It is widely accepted that the learning of a new language, among other advantages, promotes respect and interest of the students towards other cultures and languages. The question is how learning languages can be promoted in educational settings. The aim of the present study is to explore the principles of communicative language teaching in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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San Isidro, Xabier; Lasagabaster, David – English Language Teaching, 2019
In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), the design of a language policy at school level is not only bound up with the number of languages used for learning and the number of hours devoted to teaching those languages, but also with the fact that language becomes specialised in relation to the subject, which impacts on the methodology…
Descriptors: Course Content, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Méndez, Pilar; Garzón, Eliana; Noriega-Borja, Rodolfo – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper problematizes the meaning of subjectivity constructed by Colombian English Teachers in response to a National Bilingual Program and its system of reason to produce English teachers' identity and promote bilingual education. The double-side character of subjection/subjectification (Foucault, 1982) is used to analyze English teachers'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis
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Martinez, Ana Herraiz; Hernández, Ariadna Sánchez – English Language Teaching, 2019
The purpose of this study is to investigate the production of pragmatic markers (PMs) by multilingual students in a CLIL context. Previous studies have analyzed pragmatic competence in multilingual settings (e.g., Cenoz, 2003; Martín-Laguna & Alcón-Soler, 2015; Portolés, 2015; Safont & Portolés, 2016). However, to the best of our…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Martí, Otilia; Portolés, Laura – English Language Teaching, 2019
In line with van Kampen et al.'s (2018) research about specialist and practitioner perceptions on the goals for CLIL in the Netherlands, the present study addresses Hüttner, Dalton-Puffer and Smit's (2013) call for investigating teachers' beliefs about CLIL in European countries like Spain where this teaching approach is highly institutionalized.…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Course Content
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Borràs, Eulàlia; Moore, Emilee – English Language Teaching, 2019
This paper explores the interactions of a groupwork team composed of both local and exchange students, with heterogeneous competence in English, in an English-medium CLIL context at a technical university in Catalonia. Plurilingual and multimodal conversation analysis is used to trace how the students jointly complete an academic task. The…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lancaster, Nina K. – English Language Teaching, 2016
This article documents the findings of a study concerning the perspectives on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the monolingual context of Jaén. The research has involved the design, validation and administration of two sets of questionnaires to 745 informants (692 students and 53 teachers) within eight secondary schools with a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Teaching Methods