Upcoming event – UAM-CLIL research group

II International Conference on Academic Literacies

by UAM-CLIL research group23 Oct 202623 Oct 2026

The II International Conference on Academic Literacies will be hosted by Mondragon University in Bilbao this year. The following presentations from our group members will take place: Analysis of disciplinary literacy in lower secondary curricula in Spain: A comparison across…

XVII Congreso Internacional de Lingüística de Corpus (CILC 2026)

by UAM-CLIL research group3 Jun 20263 Jun 2026

Orígenes, presente y perspectivas de la lingüística de corpus 10 - 12 June, 2026 at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) A corpus-based assessment of CLIL students' disciplinary literacy across disciplines and educational levels (Ana Llinares & Tom Morton) The…

BiUNED 2026 Conference: Language Policy, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education – Shaping the Future
Ana Llinares, Tom Morton and Maureen McAlinden will present 'Relating CLIL students' disciplinary literacy performance to teachers’ basis of achievement: a longitudinal study' at the BiUNED 2026 Conference at 12:30am on Friday, November 13th. More information and full programme: BiUNED……
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New Article: “Operationalising historical literacy with CEFR-aligned descriptors: an exploratory study”
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/applirev-2026-0119/html
📢 New publication 👉 Research and didactics of Specialized Communication
Ana Llinares explores CLIL's challenges in specialized communication education.
Assessment in CLIL: the pending subject in bilingual education? A case study
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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Assessing CLIL students’ expression of Explore across languages and school disciplines
Ana Llinares, Tom Morton Assessment of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) students' content and language academic performance is a pending issue in CLIL, particularly as disciplinary requirements (content and language) shape teachers' expectations of what is acceptable or not……
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Students’ language and subject learning attitudes in CLIL secondary education
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
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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