UAM-CLIL research group

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Assessment in CLIL: the pending subject in bilingual education? A case study

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Elena del Pozo CLIL has been the most common methodological approach in bilingual teaching in Western Europe since the 1990s. It was created as a formula to define the teaching and learning of subject-matter content (non-linguistic) through a foreign language.…

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Students’ language and subject learning attitudes in CLIL secondary education

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Elisa Hidalgo McCabe This study examines the attitudes of CLIL learners to both language and subject learning in the context of Madrid’s Spanish-English Bilingual Education Program. The research compared 70 students enrolled in two secondary school strands with differing CLIL…

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CLIL students’ production of cognitive discourse functions: Comparing Finnish and Spanish contexts

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Ana Llinares, Tarja Nikula This article presents findings from an empirical study in which we investigated Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) students' linguistic resources in the L2 (English) to convey different Cognitive Discourse Functions (Dalton-Puffer 2013; 2016)—Describe, Compare (Categorize),…

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Fostering language awareness for integration through teacher-researcher collaboration in a Spanish bilingual education context

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Ana Llinares, Tom Morton, Rachel Whittaker Research on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes has shown that teachers find it difficult to integrate content and language in their teaching, and that this may be due to a lack of…

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