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Eva Olsson – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Although research on content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has shown that CLIL instruction may enhance students' second or foreign language learning compared to regular foreign language instruction, there are also studies that have indicated similar language development between CLIL and non-CLIL students. However, CLIL can be organized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lee, Yong-Jik; Kim, Hyunjin Jinna; Li, Yue – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2022
This study explores international graduate students' experiences of content-language integrated learning (CLIL) at a university in Korea. This study focuses on a course that allows international students to simultaneously learn the Korean language and content knowledge. Korean as a medium of instruction (KMI) was applied to 16 international…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Korean
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Leontjev, Dmitri; deBoer, Mark Antony – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In Japan, CLIL instruction falls under a soft-CLIL approach, content serving as secondary to language instruction. Furthermore, assessment in classrooms in Japan is oftentimes limited to assessing the product summatively. In the paper, we argue for the value of focusing on content in CLIL activities and assessing the process with the goal to…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Language
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Angel M. Y. Lin – Language and Education, 2024
Upholding a critical, ethical, multilingual stance presents numerous challenges amidst a myriad of institutional, infrastructural, and societal pressures. Despite significant breakthroughs, such as translanguaging theories and pedagogies and the evolution of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) principles, the journey towards a more inclusive and…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Ethics
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Lo, Yuen Yi; Lin, Angel M. Y.; Liu, Yiqi – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
In content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms, it is assumed that non-language content subjects provide more authentic communicative contexts for students to learn a foreign/second/additional language (L2). However, learning abstract concepts and academic language in an L2 simultaneously is also challenging for CLIL students. It is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Gleeson, Margaret – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper reports on a professional learning (PL) project conducted over one year at a senior secondary school in New Zealand. Subject teachers volunteered to work with one another and a facilitator to identify the linguistic demands of their subjects, adapt teaching materials, and try out teaching approaches congruent with research evidence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Instructional Materials, Teaching Methods
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van der Walt, Christa – ELT Journal, 2022
In South Africa, English is used as a language of learning and teaching for most students from Grade 4 onwards. National policies have requirements for all teachers regarding language proficiency in English, and they also require all teachers from Grades R (pre-school) to 6 to be English language teachers. Because most teachers are not English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
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Bárcena-Toyos, Patricia – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2023
This case study examines the use of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP®) Model as a framework in the design of an in-service training to answer CLIL teachers' methodological needs to integrate content and language. The study also analyzes teachers' receptiveness of the use of SIOP in a CLIL bilingual program to facilitate the…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Classroom Observation Techniques, Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes
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Molle, Daniella; Huang, Weiqiong – Science Education International, 2021
This study addressed the intractable issue of ensuring that all students, including those who are linguistically and culturally diverse, have access to high quality science education. We explored the efforts of two organizations in the United States (one that supports science teachers and one that focuses on language development) to design…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Zheng Gu – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Bilingual education in the United States basically involves English language learners (ELLs) in mainstream classes and students who are learning an additional language in a foreign language immersion (FLI) program. Although academic vocabulary instruction for ELLs has attracted increasing attention in the past two decades (e.g., McQuillan, 2019;…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Immersion Programs, Vocabulary Development, Chinese
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Lo, Yuen Yi; Fung, Daniel – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2020
In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes, students learn content knowledge and a second/foreign language (L2) simultaneously. It follows that both content and language are assessed, although research on how to do so remains scarce. This study explores the interplay between cognitive and linguistic demands of CLIL assessments.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Secondary Education
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Brooke, Mark – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
The paper seeks to demonstrate how academic Content Obligatory Language can be potentially organized in teacher talk applying semantic gravity waving from Legitimation Code Theory. The questions asked are: Which concepts do I teach from my discipline in this session? How do I teach these to ensure effective comprehension? Research was conducted…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Semantics, Teaching Methods, Profiles
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Bárcena-Toyos, Patricia – NABE Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
This article reports on results from a multi-case study on the implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in bilingual elementary schools in a monolingual region of Spain (Cantabria) by examining four school teachers' CLIL instructional practices to teach content in a foreign language (English). The study examined whether…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Salloum, Sara; BouJaoude, Saouma – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Science teachers mediate social and academic language in science classrooms through teacher talk and classroom discourse. In multilingual classrooms, ways home and international languages are deployed can affect conceptual learning of science. This study investigates, through Bakhtin's dialogic perspective, multilingual language practices and…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Student Diversity, Academic Language