Rachel Whittaker, Anne McCabe. In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Year of publication: 2020 The construct of cognitive discourse functions (CDFs) has been proposed as a bridge between linguists and educationalists, linking ‘subject specific cognitive learning goals with…
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CLIL students’ definitions of historical terms
Nashwa Nashaat-Sobhy, Ana Llinares. In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Year of publication: 2020 The ability to manage specific forms of disciplinary expression – Languages of Schooling – is regarded as a factor of academic success (Council of…
Systemic functional linguistics: the perfect match for content and language integrated learning
Ana Llinares, Anne McCabe. In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Year of publication: 2020 Recent debates on bilingual education/CLIL have insisted on the need to explore common aims across bilingual/multilingual education programmes (CLIL, CBI, immersion) instead of highlighting…
Classroom Interaction in CLIL Programs: Offering Opportunities or Fostering Inequalities?
Ana Llinares, Natalia Evnitskaya. In: TESOL Quarterly. Year of publication: 2020 This study investigated potential inequalities in a bilingual education program where secondary school students are streamed into two strands with different degrees of exposure to the target language based…
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Cognitive Discourse Functions: A Bridge between Content, Literacy and Language for Teaching and Assessment in CLIL
Tom Morton. In: CLIL Journal of Innovation and Research in Plurilingual and Pluricultural Education. Year of publication: 2020 As Bilingual Education programmes which adopt a CLIL approach grow, there is an ever-increasing need for conceptual and practical frameworks to help…
Enhancing Interactional Competence in EMI: Teacher Reflective Practices
Ana Llinares, Amaya Mendikoetxea. In: Sánchez Pérez, M.M. (ed.), Teacher Training For English-Medium Instruction In Higher Education. IGI Global. Year of publication: 2020 This chapter shows the role of in-service EMI teacher reflective practices by showcasing the use of self-…
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Constructing Cognitive Discourse Functions in secondary CLIL classrooms in Spain
Natalia Evnitskaya. In: Tsuchiya, K. & Pérez-Murillo, M.D. (eds.), Content and Language Integrated Content in Spanish and Japanese Contexts: Policy, Practice and Pedagogy. Palgrave Macmillan.. Year of publication: 2020 In Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts, the quality of…
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Framing ‘choice’ in language education: the case of freedom in constructing inequality
Elisa Hidalgo McCabe, Noelia Fernández-González. In: Martín Rojo, L. & Del Precio, A. (Eds). Language and Neoliberal Governmentality. Routledge. Year of publication: 2019 In the last decade, the Madrid Regional Government has carried out an educational policy based on two…
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Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL
Ana Llinares, Tom Morton (eds.). John Benjamins. Year of publication: 2017. This book represents the first collection of studies on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) which brings together a range of perspectives through which CLIL has been investigated within…

The Roles of Language in CLIL
Ana Llinares, Tom Morton, Rachel Whittaker. Cambridge University Press. Year of publication: 2012 This book provides a comprehensive guide to the various roles of language in CLIL. Drawing on the authors’ wide experience as CLIL teacher educators and researchers, the…