“Advancedness in CLIL: Academic Literacies, Assessment, and Equity” (23 Sept 2022)

We would like to invite you to the colloquium ADVANCEDNESS IN CLIL: ACADEMIC LITERACIES, ASSESSMENT, AND EQUITY to be held on September 23, 2022, in Madrid, organized by the UAM-CLIL research group. The colloquium aims to bring together diverse backgrounds…

“Creation of tools to evaluate academic linguistic competence in History, Plastic Education, Natural Sciences, Spanish Language and English” (2019-2020)

One of the key competences in education, and more specifically in bilingual education, is evaluation: what and how to evaluate. One of the most important challenges for CLIL teachers (who teach content through English) is whether and how they should…

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Systemic Functional Linguistics: A social-semiotic approach to content and language integrated learning in bilingual/multilingual educations.

Special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Edited by Ana Llinares & Anne McCabe (2020). Table of contents Systemic functional linguistics: the perfect match for content and language integrated learningAna Llinares & Anne McCabe Documenting language…

Writing on history in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) context: Development of grammatical metaphor as evidence of language learning

Rachel Whittaker, Anne McCabe. In: Machón, R.M. (Ed.) Writing and Language Learning: Advancing Research Agendas. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Year of publication: 2020 In this chapter we attempt to answer Manchón and Williams’ (2016, p. 580) question as to “how language and…

Afterword: SFL, theoretical pluralism and content and language integration at the levels of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment

Tom Morton. In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Year of publication: 2020 This article is an afterword to the special issue on social-semiotic and systemic functional approaches to content and language-integrated learning in bilingual/multilingual education. It provides a…

Cognitive discourse functions in CLIL classrooms: eliciting and analysing students’ oral categorizations in science and history

Natalia Evnitskaya, Christiane Dalton-Puffer. In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Year of publication: 2020 Embedded in a Systemic Functional understanding of education as an initiation into knowledge structures and specific activities, both of which are fundamentally mediated by…