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What are the CLIL teacher´s competences?

23 de janeiro de 2023

Many authors agree that the most important aspect to CLIL implementation regardless of the context is a competent teacher. There is a shortage of well qualified CLIL teachers around the world (MEHISTO; MARSH; FRIGOLS, 2008). Ball, Kelly and Klegg (2015, p.268) point out that most of the teachers practicing CLIL ”are unlikely to have received...Read More

Bilingual Education

bilingual-education-program, BilingualEducacion, career, CLIL

CLIL is the New Black

13 de março de 2020

by Ana Carolina Calil

Sunny afternoon in the capital of Brazil, a group of teachers awaits for the presentation of the new coursebooks. Curious eyes on the presenters, colorful boxes on the shelves and the expectation to end the day with grids and tables filled with content that would translate into a year’s worth of teaching. To their surprise,...Read More

Bilingual Education, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

CLIL, future_trends_in_education, Language acquisition, methods, reflection, Second-language acquisition

To CLIL or Not To CLIL in Bilingual Education?

24 de fevereiro de 2019

by Renata Condi

Ten years ago, you were working as an English teacher at a school, and your worries were how to help students develop their productive and receptive skills. Your lesson was basically focused on reading, writing, listening, and speaking, even if you followed innovative trends, included different technologies and authentic materials. Then, something happened. You heard...Read More

Bilingual Education

bilingual-education, CLIL

The Translanguaging Pedagogy: Friend or Foe?

6 de setembro de 2018

by Eduardo Trindade

Translanguaging is a term that was first coined in 1994 as trawsieithu (translanguaging in Welsh) by Welsh researcher Cen Williams in order to refer to the processes in which English and Welsh were used for different reasons and purposes in the same class. For example, students would read or listen to content in English and...Read More

Classroom Experiences, Language Acquisition, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

bilingualism, CLIL, codeswitching, Essential Questions, translanguage, translanguaging

In Search of a Latin American Identity for CLIL

27 de junho de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

CLIL has been the starting point for the majority of bilingual education programs and methodologies across the globe. Born in 1994 with the establishment of the European Community, CLIL was an attempt to standardize bilingual education approaches within the comunity, or at least to determine a range of practices that, based on a common concept,...Read More

ELT Management, Reflections about Education, Trends in ELT

CLIL, latin-america

Assessment in CLIL and bilingual education: more than just language

27 de janeiro de 2018

by Carlos Henrique Trindade

EFL teachers that change into a bilingual education environment, often tend to forget that they are not teaching language as the primary goal anymore and that has dramatic implications. The acronym CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning – implies that there is much more to it than just language teaching. But what is there...Read More

Language testing & assessment, Learner Autonomy, Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

assessment, bilingual-education, CLIL

Is CLIL an approach to apply to our EFL lessons?

7 de setembro de 2015

by Beatriz Meneguetti

CLIL is a fairly recent way of teaching. An acronym standing for Content and Language Integrated Learning – according to Mehisto et all [2008] it is a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language. A lot is said and discussed about CLIL...Read More

Reflections about Education, Teacher Development

CLIL, EFL classes