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SUMMARY:Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Multilingual Cl
 assrooms: From Conceptualisation to Implementation to Professional Develop
 ment  - Professor Rick de Graaff\, University of Utrecht\, Dr.Dieuwerke Ru
 tgers\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20191104T170000Z
DTEND:20191104T183000Z
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CONTACT:Ann Waterman
DESCRIPTION:Over the past three decades\, Content and Language Integrated 
 Learning (CLIL) has become a well-established and popular approach for dev
 eloping an additional language through other curricular domains (e.g. scie
 nce\, history) in secondary and increasingly also in primary schools in Eu
 rope. CLIL is underpinned by the belief that language development is promo
 ted through application and exploration in meaningful contexts associated 
 with content learning\, while the development of content knowledge and ski
 lls is promoted by focusing on their linguistic foundations and the learni
 ng thereof. As such\, it is relevant both to teachers who want to provide 
 students with additional opportunities for foreign language learning withi
 n the existing curriculum\, and to teacher who wants to ensure that EAL st
 udents are given the same educational opportunities as non-EAL students. \
 nHowever\, it also places specific demands on teachers associated with the
  integration of content and language didactics\, and whilst a great deal o
 f research has been conducted over the years to understand the nature and 
 outcomes of CLIL\, there remains a critical need for research into how int
 egrated learning is realised in the classroom\, what teacher knowledge and
  competencies are required for this\, and what professional development ac
 tivities may enable teachers to effectively implement CLIL. \nIn this talk
 \, we will\, firstly\, set out to define more clearly what CLIL is\, addre
 ssing its notoriously fuzzy boundaries as well as some of the learning the
 ories and principles underlying this particular pedagogical approach. We w
 ill then report on two collaborative research projects between the UK and 
 the Netherlands that aimed to 1) identify the professional knowledge-base 
 of effective CLIL teaching in multilingual primary schools\, and 2) define
  the features of effective teacher preparation for integrated teaching in 
 the primary years. By bringing together the expertise and teacher practica
 l knowledge from the English as an additional language (EAL) context in th
 e UK\, with that from the early English teaching context in the Netherland
 s\, this talk will offer reflections on key pedagogical knowledge and prin
 ciples for CLIL teaching and teacher training\, as well as on specific con
 textual opportunities for integrated teaching and capacity building in the
  UK. \n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
 om 1S3
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