CLIL: Teachers' needs, students' wishes and a path to have both meet Event as iCalendar

Professor Dr. Jutta Rymarcyzk | Heidelberg University of Education

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) started as a grassroots movement about sixty years ago. It has since become one of the most successful methods of foreign language teaching and learning in Europe and beyond. Not only have more subjects been involved in this kind of teaching, there is also an increasingly wide range of languages and a more diverse group of addressees pursuing different aims.

This seminar seeks to familiarise the audience with this richness by shedding light on the following three issues:

1. The qualifications that teachers need to teach content subjects in the language of instruction.
2. The way students alternate between the language of schooling and the language of instruction in both their oral and written performance.
3. The scaffolds that enable teachers and students to interact successfully in the context of content subjects.

Finally, both teachers' and students' voices will be presented to reflect an authentic picture of the demands and benefits of the CLIL framework.