Content & Language Integrated Learning & immersion Classrooms
Date of first approval: April 2006
New website (URL) coming soon (presently still at http://www.ichm.org/clil/)
Description:
As the intense activities of the ReN over its two terms have shown, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL, also referred to as immersion education or content-based language teaching) has not only been a highly popular educational innovation in Europe and elsewhere, but it has also attracted a wide range of research interests and undertakings. Given the urgency with which researchers are concerned with the diversity of local realisations of CLIL, the annual ReN meetings have provided its increasing number of members with the opportunity to engage in international exchange, disseminating their applied linguistic insights (empirical and methodological) about classrooms where the teaching and learning of curricular content happens in and through foreign or second languages.
For the present period, the CLIL ReN aims at ‘building bridges’ with respect to the following topics:
- How is CLIL conceptualized from different theoretical frameworks, and how does this relate to learner-teacher interaction and to learner achievement in content and language?
- How is CLIL operationalized in different national and cultural contexts, and how does this relate to learner-teacher interaction and to learner achievement in content and language?
- What are the parallel and specific processes and outcomes of CLIL in multilingual settings: trilingual CLIL, CLIL in multi-ethnic classrooms?
- How do CLIL processes and outcomes differentiate between primary, secondary, vocational and higher education?
- How do language development and subject-specific cognitive development co-occur in CLIL settings?
Convenors:
Prof. Rick de Graaff,Position: ProfessorAffiliation: University of Utrecht
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Dr. Ute SmitPosition: Associate ProfessorAffiliation: University of Vienna
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Publications based on ReN activities:
Dalton-Puffer. Ch. & Nikula, T. (eds.) 2006. “Current research on CLIL”. Special issue of VIEWS (Vienna English Working Papers) 15/3.
Dalton-Puffer, C. & Smit, U. (eds.) 2007. Empirical perspectives on CLIL classroom discourse. Frankfurt a.M.: Lang.
Smit, U. & Dalton-Puffer, C. (eds.) 2007. “Current research on CLIL 2”. Special issue of VIEWS (Vienna English Working Papers) 16/3.
Smit, U., Schiftner, B. & Dalton-Puffer, C. (eds.) 2010. “Current research on CLIL 3”. Special issue of VIEWS (Vienna English Working Papers) 19/3.
Dalton-Puffer, C.; T. Nikula & U. Smit (eds.) 2010. Language use and language learning in CLIL classrooms. Amsterdam: Benjamins AALS Aila Applied Linguistics Series.