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Cognitive Discourse Functions in CLIL Classrooms: Eliciting and Analysing Students' Oral Categorizations in Science and History
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Evnitskaya, Natalia; Dalton-Puffer, Christiane – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
Embedded in a Systemic Functional understanding of education as an initiation into knowledge structures and specific activities, both of which are fundamentally mediated by language, this paper addresses one of the critical concerns around CLIL: a possible mismatch between students' cognitive level and their L2 proficiency. The focus is on acts of…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Cognitive Processes, Linguistics, Second Language Learning
Teachers' Views on Their Methodology and Their Profiles: In Search of the Possible Reasons for the Levelling Effect of CLIL
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Janina Iwaniec; Ana Halbach – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) research has thrived recently. Yet, while more and more is learnt about the impact of CLIL on motivation, proficiency, and content learning, few investigations examine how CLIL influences students of different socio-economic status (SES) and why. The recent large-scale English Impact study conducted…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Profiles, Self Efficacy
Responsible, Competent and with a Sense of Belonging: An Explanation for the Purported Levelling Effect of CLIL
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Halbach, Ana; Iwaniec, Janina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Whilst CLIL research has flourished and showed some gains for CLIL learners, for example in motivation, there is little consensus about how it affects students from different social strata. The British Council 'English Impact' study (Shepherd and Ainsworth 2017, "English Impact." "An evaluation of English language capability."…
Descriptors: Responsibility, Competence, Sense of Community, Content and Language Integrated Learning
Differences between CLIL and Non-CLIL Students: Motivation, Autonomy and Identity
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Buckingham, Lyndsay R.; Fernández Álvarez, Miguel; Halbach, Ana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
This article aims to contribute to the explanation of why bilingual education (CLIL) may reduce the differences in motivation and English proficiency commonly seen between students from different SES backgrounds (Shepherd and Ainsworth 2017). From a mixed-methods approach involving a questionnaire and focus group interviews, fourth year Secondary…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Characterising Integrated Content-Language Pedagogies of Global Perspectives Teachers in Dutch Bilingual Schools
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van Kampen, Evelyn; Meirink, Jacobiene; Admiraal, Wilfried; Berry, Amanda – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2021
This study aims to characterise teachers' "integrated" content-language learning pedagogies teaching the skills-focused subject "Global Perspectives" (GP) in Dutch bilingual upper-secondary-schools. Eleven teachers from seven bilingual schools across the Netherlands participated in the study in the school-year 2016-2017. To…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction