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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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de Oliveira, Luciana C.; Jones, Loren; Smith, Sharon L. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2023
Teacher discourse is one way to scaffold instruction for students and is especially important for multilingual learners (MLs). With an ever-growing population of MLs, this topic demands attention. This study takes steps to meet this demand by presenting a language-based approach to content instruction (LACI), a guiding framework comprised of six…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Grade 1, Elementary School Teachers
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Fenwick, Lisl; Herrington, Michele – Language and Education, 2022
Research from the fields of science representation, genre pedagogy and disciplinary literacy for adolescents indicates that achievement for students, including those from linguistically diverse backgrounds, will improve if they engage with the meaning-making conventions of disciplinary texts, but there is no current agreement on the nature of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teaching Methods, Biology, Science Instruction
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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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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
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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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)