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Lisa M. Domke; Laura A. May; Melody Kung; Lauren Coleman; Michael Vo; Gary E. Bingham – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Having a dual focus on teaching content information and language is important in language-learning contexts and is a defining feature of dual language bilingual education (DLBE). However, systematically teaching both language and content is challenging for DLBE teachers. This exploratory mixed methods study of nine Spanish-English bilingual Latinx…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Teacher Education Programs, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Nashaat-Sobhy, Nashwa; Llinares, Ana – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
The ability to manage specific forms of disciplinary expression - Languages of Schooling - is regarded as a factor of academic success (Council of Europe recommendations - Council of Europe CM/Rec. [2014]. "Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the Importance of Competences in the Language(s) of Schooling for Equity…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Grade 6
Nerea Villabona; Mikel Gartziarena – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This paper analyzes how future educators would design their ideal school in the context of the Basque Country, with particular attention put on language planning and language teaching aspects. More specifically, we focus on the ideas about the languages to be included in the curriculum, the modes of inclusion of students' home languages and the…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Language of Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Immersion Programs
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Delicado-Puerto, Gemma; Alonso-Díaz, Laura; Fielden Burns, Laura V. – TESL-EJ, 2022
How to better prepare future bilingual teachers for foreign language learning classrooms and their challenges is a key consideration in education, a concern echoed across the world as such programmes, where curricular content is taught in a foreign language, grow in popularity. This article presents student profiles and satisfaction for the first…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
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Marco A. Bravo; Eduardo Mosqueda; Kip Téllez – TESOL Journal, 2025
Providing instruction in a student's home language through bilingual education has proven to be academically beneficial for multilingual learners (MLLs). The present study contributes to this literature by examining the possibilities and limits of a professional development program (Mathematics and Language Literacy Integration [MALLI] in Dual…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Language Proficiency, Spanish
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Laviosa, Sara – L2 Journal, 2022
The pedagogies that are currently being put forward within a broad multilingual paradigm in languages education endorse the general principle that learning is a collaborative and dialogic process engaging learners and teachers as partners that bring diverse linguistic, cultural and other knowledge into the classroom. The plurilingual approach to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Translation, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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San Isidro, Xabier; Lasagabaster, David – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Over the past few years, research has shown that stakeholders involved in CLIL develop positive views and attitudes alongside with higher motivation towards the foreign language (Czura, A., K. Papaja, and M. Urbaniak. 2009. Bilingual education and the emergence of CLIL in Poland. In "CLIL Practice: Perspectives from the Field," ed. D.…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Longitudinal Studies, Language Attitudes, Learning Motivation
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Serra, Judit; Feijoo, Sara – Journal for the Study of Education and Development, 2022
The use of the students' first language (L1) in the foreign language class (FL) is a common but controversial issue that has received little attention. This might be more relevant in the case of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), since, under CLIL approaches, students need to acquire content through an FL that they have not mastered…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Durán-Martínez, R.; Beltrán-Llavador, Fernando; Martínez-Abad, Fernando – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Bilingual education currently faces the challenge of improving teacher training to meet the linguistic and didactic demands of a content and language integrated approach. Our paper analyses what Spanish in-service primary school teachers consider the key training priorities for their involvement in bilingual programmes. Using content data…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Programs, Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement
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Barrios, Elvira; Acosta-Manzano, Irene – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study investigated primary students' perceptions of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Natural Science and Social Sciences and variations in perceptions by individual and social factors. The sample comprised 524 Spanish-speaking students aged 9-13 years from bilingual Spanish-English schools in Andalusia (Spain). The study…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Somers, Thomas; Llinares, Ana – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
The study of motivation in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts has hitherto one-sidedly been concerned with motivation to learn the foreign language, without regard for CLIL's eponymous focus on the inextricable connection between language and content. To fill this gap, this article focusses on CLIL learners' motivation not…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Preadolescents
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Bárcena Toyos, Patricia – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2022
The provision of CLIL teachers in Spain has outpaced the growth of the so-called bilingual programs, as there are no specific training requirements for CLIL teachers who are either content or language specialists. So, CLIL teachers have a preexistent teacher identity that could influence their pedagogical choices. This study examines how teachers…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Metalinguistics, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Alvarez, Laura; De Loney, Marguerite; Capitelli, Sarah; Valdés, Guadalupe; Julia Biernacki, Paulina – Language and Education, 2023
In teaching newcomer students, educators must envision how to provide opportunities for language use and development through age-appropriate content instruction. This article describes a design research study, in which we developed and piloted 5th grade science units and studied the participation of two newcomer students in sense-making…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Language Usage, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Valdés-Sánchez, Laura; Espinet, Mariona – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Multilingual and multicultural societies in Europe pose new challenges for schools and have led to the expansion of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach to foreign language teaching. English teachers in Catalan primary schools frequently face the challenge of integrating science teaching with foreign language teaching. This…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism