International Perspectives on CLIL

International Perspectives on CLIL
Author: Chantal Hemmi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 303070095X

This edited book offers culturally-situated, critical accounts of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approaches in diverse educational settings, showcasing authentic examples of how CLIL can be applied to different educational levels from primary to tertiary. The contributors offer a research-based, critical view of CLIL opportunities, challenges and implications in the following areas: teacher education, continuing professional development, assessment, teacher-student dialogue, translanguaging, coursebooks, bilingual education, authenticity, language development and thinking skills. This wide-ranging volume will appeal to students and scholars of English Language Teaching (ELT), language policy and planning, bi- and multilingualism, and applied linguistics more broadly.

International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT

International Perspectives on Diversity in ELT
Author: Darío Luis Banegas
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-07-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3030749819

This edited book provides professionals in the field of English Language Teaching (ELT) with a situated and culturally-responsive account of diversity and inclusion in English language education, from primary to higher education and in a wide range of settings. The volume focuses on three overlapping areas: interculturality, special education needs, and gender. The chapters in each section seek to help readers reflect on the opportunities and challenges of diversity as a step towards inclusive practices, and raise awareness of critical topics across the curriculum and beyond by engaging in wider social issues. This book will be of interest to language teachers and teacher trainers, as well as scholars working in applied linguistics, higher education, intercultural studies, and related fields.

International Perspectives on ELT Classroom Interaction

International Perspectives on ELT Classroom Interaction
Author: Christopher J. Jenks
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2015-04-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137340738

This book gathers together 11 empirical-based studies of classroom interaction carried out in different countries, including the USA, England, Kenya, Sweden, and China. Along with a state-of-the-art literature review, the chapters provide key insights and engagement priorities that will prove relevant to a variety of learning and teaching contexts.

Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL

Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL
Author: Ana Llinares
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2017-03-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027266107

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 Applied Linguistics. The book aims to show how the four perspectives of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), Discourse Analysis, and Sociolinguistics highlight different important aspects of CLIL as a context for second language development. Each of the four sections in the book opens with an overview of one of the perspectives written by a leading scholar in the field, and is then followed by three empirical studies which focus on specific aspects of CLIL seen from this perspective. Topics covered include motivation, the use of tasks, pragmatic development, speech functions in spoken interaction, the use of evaluative language in expressing content knowledge in writing, multimodal interaction, assessment for learning, L1 use in the classroom, English-medium instruction in universities, and CLIL teachers’ professional identities.

Curriculum Integrated Language Teaching

Curriculum Integrated Language Teaching
Author: Kim Bower
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2020-07-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108492819

A guide on how to implement CLIL in the classroom to foster motivation, engagement and progress in language learning.

International Perspectives on Materials in ELT

International Perspectives on Materials in ELT
Author: Sue Garton
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2014-05-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137023317

This book brings together different perspectives on ELT materials from a range of international contexts and a variety of educational settings. All the chapters are underpinned by sound theoretical principles while addressing practical concerns and debates in materials design and use.

Teaching Practices and Equitable Learning in Children's Language Education

Teaching Practices and Equitable Learning in Children's Language Education
Author: Giannikas, Christina Nicole
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-03-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1799864898

Educating children and leading them towards the path of bilingualism is a valuable and challenging task for any educator. Effective language teaching can contribute to young learners’ cognitive growth, develop their problem-solving skills, enhance their comprehension abilities, and provide children with the satisfaction of succeeding in the challenge of learning a foreign language. All these issues must be taken under consideration when researching children and their teachers. The current literature indicates that further material is needed to provide professionals with different classroom situations and enhance the art of teaching children. Teaching Practices and Equitable Learning in Children's Language Education focuses on various perspectives of efficient practices, approaches, and ideas for professional development in the field of young language learners. The chapters in this book link the theoretical understanding and practical experience of teaching children languages by concentrating on teaching practices, material design, classroom management, reading, speaking, writing, and more. This book is designed for inservice and preservice teachers, administrators, teacher educators, practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in the field of early language learning and applied linguistics at large.

International Perspectives on Creativity in the Foreign Language Classrooms

International Perspectives on Creativity in the Foreign Language Classrooms
Author: Isaak Papadopoulos
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020
Genre: Creative teaching
ISBN: 9781536180855

The book titled "International Perspectives on Creativity in the Foreign Language Classrooms" aspires to provide a reflective and descriptive account of creative practices as well as research related to creativity from an international perspective. In particular, through a collection of 12 studies conducted in various countries and continents, an attempt is made to provide readers with creative examples of teaching practice and research incentives, as proposed and presented by the authors of this collected edition. The contributors of this book report and reflect on classroom practices that increase motivation, promote creative learning, heighten learners' creativity, enhance their learning potential and their multicultural sensitivity. They discuss challenges of applications in diverse contexts based on playful activities and stories that develop a creative learning environment in a foreign language classroom. Some other studies focus on multiple intelligences theory approach making students 'know' and 'apply' the appropriate behaviour and they present creative ways and multisensory approaches of approaching dyslexic students in a language classroom. The authors provide perspectives from different angles on the above mentioned issues demonstrating that multiliteracies practices, games, different art forms, popular-culture texts, digital storytelling and interactive activities could be effective tools in foreign language learning.

International Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca

International Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca
Author: Hugo Bowles
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137398094

This collection brings new insight into the relationship between English as a lingua franca and language teaching. It explores how the pedagogy of intelligibility, culture and language awareness, as well as materials analysis and classroom management, can be viewed from an ELF perspective in school and university contexts.