UAM-CLIL research group

Rachel Whittaker

Honorary lecturer

Department of English Studies
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

rachel@uam.es

Books

Journal articles

  • Whittaker, R. & C. Acevedo (2016) . Working on literacy in CLIL/bilingual contexts: Reading to Learn and teacher development. Estudios sobre Educación. 31, pp. 31-50.
  • Whittaker, R., A. Llinares, & A. McCabe (2011) Written discourse development in CLIL at secondary school. In Content-Based Language Teaching: Convergent Concerns Across Divergent Contexts Special issue of Language Teaching Research. Roy Lyster & Susan Ballinger (eds.) Volume 15, 3, 343 – 362.
  • Whittaker, R. (2010). Using SFL in Content and Language Integrated Learning. National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum. Special Issue: Learning language, learning through language and learning about language: the contribution of systemic functional linguistics.
Book chapters

  • McCabe, A & R. Whittaker (2017) Genre and appraisal in CLIL history texts: developing the voice of the historian. In A. Llinares & T. Morton (eds) Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • McCabe, A, T. Morton, A. Llinares & R. Whittaker (2016) . Longitudinal Study of Two CLIL Classrooms in Spain: Results from Written and Spoken Data. In In Katarzyna Papaja, Artur Świątek eds. Modernizing Educational Practice: Perspectives in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 149-169.
  • Acevedo, C, C. Coffin, C. Gouveia, A-C. Lövstedt & R. Whittaker (2016) Teacher Learning for European Literacy Education (TeL4ELE) 2011- 2013 . In H. de Silva Joyce & S. Feez (eds) Theory, Research and Practice of Literacies. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • García Parejo, I. , R. Whittaker, Mª L. García Bermejo, T. Bordón, I. Blecua, B. Pedrosa (2013) . ¿Cómo construir un andamiaje discursivo eficaz para favorecer el aprendizaje integrado de la lectura y de la escritura en las diferentes disciplinas del currículo? In T. Ramiro-Sánchez, M.T. Ramiro y M.P. Bermúdez (eds) Avances en Ciencias de la Educación y del Desarrollo. Granada: Asociación Española de Psicología Conductual (AEPC)
  • Llinares, A. & R. Whittaker (2011). Functions of language in CLIL secondary classes: a systemic functional approach. In Escobar, C & L. Nussbaum (eds.) Learning in a Different Language. Barcelona: UAB. 141-161.
  • Whittaker, R & A. Llinares (2011). Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Secondary School In S. House (ed) Theory and Practice in English Language Teaching. Barcelona: GRAO.
Conference papers

  • Whittaker, R. & McCabe, A. 2016. Eliciting and Analyzing Cognitive Discourse Functions in Bilingual Education. Paper presented at the 26th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference. Salzburg: University of Salzburg.
  • Whittaker, R. 2016. Cognitive Discourse Functions in CLIL: eliciting them, analyzing them. Paper presented at the XXXIV Congreso internacional de AESLA. Alicante: Universidad Alicante.
  • Whittaker, R. 2015. Extending subject boundaries: Reading to Learn in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and Foreign Language classrooms. . Paper presented at the 25th Annual European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference & Workshop. Aachen:
  • RWTH Aachen University.
  • Whittaker, R. & A. McCabe. 2015. Grammatical metaphor in writing on history in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) context. Paper presented at the 25th Annual European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference & Workshop. Aachen: RWTH Aachen University.
  • Whittaker, R. 2015. Integrating writing into content learning: The UAM-CLIL project and READING TO LEARN . Invited Plenary. IV Foro Nebrija de Enseñanza Bilingüe. Madrid : Universidad Nebrija. June.
  • Whittaker, R. 2015. Development in writing on history in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) context: An analysis of grammatical metaphor. Paper presented at the XXXIII Congreso internacional de AESLA. Madrid: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
  • Whittaker, R. & I. Blecua. 2015. SFL applied to literacy in new contexts: the Reading to Learn project in Spain . Paper presented at the 1st Tunisian Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference . University of Sfax, Tunisia.
  • Whittaker, R. 2015. The role of Writing in CLIL: data from the UAM-CLIL Project . Invited Plenary “Create, Motivate, Educate” II . Pamplona : Universidad de Navarra
  • Whittaker, R. 2014 . Reading to Learn in Spain: challenges and development. Paper presented in the symposium “Linguistics recontextualised as classroom pedagogy:
  • a perspective from five European countries on implementing the SFL informed
  • Reading to Learn approach” at the 25th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference & Workshop. Paris: Universidad Paris Diderot.
  • McCabe, A & R. Whittaker .2014. Ideational and interpersonal change across genres and years: CLIL students write on history. Paper presented at the 25th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference & Workshop,. Paris: Universidad Paris Diderot.
  • Whittaker, R. & A. McCabe. 2014. Developing the voice of the historian in secondary school CLIL writing: An analysis of genre and appraisal. Paper presented at the XXXII Congreso internacional de AESLA. Seville : Universidad Pablo de Olavide.
  • Whittaker, R. 2014. Writing in secondary school CLIL contexts: genre and development in texts; scaffolding and interaction in classrooms.. Invited plenary . Teacher-student-interaction in subject-specific writing: research meets practice. Utrecht: University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
  • Blecua Sánchez I, B. Martín & R. Whittaker. 2013. Reading to Learn in bilingual secondary classrooms: a genre approach to texts. Paper presented at the III Congreso Internacional sobre Enseñanza Bilingüe en Centros Educativos,. Madrid: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid.
  • García Parejo, I, R. Whittaker, Mª L. García Bermejo; T. Bordón, I. Blecua, B. Pedrosa . 2013. ¿Cómo construir un andamiaje discursivo eficaz para favorecer el aprendizaje integrado de la lectura y de la escritura en las diferentes disciplinas del currículo? Paper presented at the I Congreso Internacional de Ciencias de la Educación y del Desarrollo. Santander: UIMP, Palacio de la Magdalena, Santander.
  • McCabe, A., Morton, T., Whittaker, R. & Llinares, A. 2013. Appraisal analysis of secondary school history texts in two modes. Paper presented at the 24th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference & Workshop. Coventry University: Conventry, U.K.
  • McCabe, A. & Whittaker, R. 2013. Learning to write history: Analysis of Appraisal in a longitudinal study of secondary CLIL. Paper presented at the international conference: Applied Linguistics Perspectives on Content and Language Integrated Learning (ALP-CLIL), Madrid: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Miraflores, Madrid.
  • Llinares, A. Whittaker, R., McCabe, A. & Morton, T. 2013. The language of evaluation in CLIL students’ written and spoken performance: a longitudinal study in secondary education. Paper presented at the XXXI Congreso internacional de AESLA. Tenerife: Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife.
  • McCabe, A., Llinares, A. Whittaker, R. & Morton, T. 2013. Longitudinal Study of Two CLIL Classrooms in Spain: Results from Written and Spoken Data. Paper presented at the Conference Modernizing Educational Practice Perspectives in Content and Language Integrated Learning. Ustron, Poland.
  • Whittaker, R. 2013. Reading to Learn/Leer para Aprender. Invited presentation at Round table and Workshop. Fundación Giner de los Ríos, Institución Libre de Enseñanza. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid. 2-3 December.
  • Whittaker, R. 2013. Reading to Learn/Leer para Aprender. Invited presentation at Round table and Workshop. Fundación Giner de los Ríos, Institución Libre de Enseñanza.. Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Turismo del Gobierno de La Rioja. Logroño. 9- 10 December.
  • Whittaker, R. 2013. Reading to Learn/Leer para Aprender. Invited presentation at Round table and Workshop. Fundación Giner de los Ríos, Institución Libre de Enseñanza. . Fundación Sierra Pambley, León. 17 December.
  • Llinares, A., Morton, T. & Whittaker, R. 2012. The Roles of Language in CLIL. Paper presented at the CLIL 2012 conference. University of Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Whittaker, Rachel & McCabe, Anne 2011. Literacy at secondary school: approaching writing in English in history classes. Workshop. II Congreso Internacional sobre Enseñanza Bilingüe en Centros Educativos. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid 20-22 octubre.
  • Whittaker, R. & C. Stoian. 2010. Meaning in images: complexity and variation across cultures. Paper presented at the 22nd European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference and Workshop. University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia.
  • Llinares, A. & R. Whittaker. 2010. Focusing on language in content teaching: the UAM-CLIL project. Paper presented at the Congreso Internacional de Enseñanza Bilingüe, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid.
  • Whittaker, R. 2010. Research in L2 writing in CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) contexts across Europe. Invited Colloquium Organizer. Symposium on Second Language Writing: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries. Universidad de Murcia.
  • Llinares, A. & R. Whittaker. 2010. A longitudinal study of CLIL students’ written and spoken language in history topics studied in English. Paper presented at the ELIA XI
  • Universidad de Sevilla
  • Whittaker, R. & C. Stoian 2010. Encoding Experience in Advertising Discourse: Variation across Cultures. Paper presented at the 28th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Applied Linguistics. Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
  • Whittaker, R, A. Llinares & A. Mccabe. 2010. Written discourse development in CLIL in Spain Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics. Orlando USA.