Teachers resources

CLIL aims to introduce students to new ideas and concepts in traditional curriculum subjects, using the foreign language as the medium of communication. This is often particularly rewarding where there is a direct overlap between the foreign language and the content subject. (www.cilt.org.uk)

This website looks at CLIL (Content & Language Integrated Learning) and explores its place in professional and vocational education.

A detailed analysis of how the provision of CLIL is organised, the status of the target languages, the subjects concerned in the curriculum, and measures for the training and recruitment of appropriate teachers.

The CLIL Compendium results from a research-driven project which has focussed on identifying the dimensions of CLIL

CLILCOM (CLIL Competencies) is a multi-media tool for raising awareness of and supporting the development of teacher competencies in CLIL.

The CLIL Consortium is a network of 10 experts who work individually, and jointly, on specific problem-solving and development tasks which concern ‘medium of instruction’.

The European Network for Content and Language Integrated Classrooms
EuroCLIC is a European Network which aims to include as many practitioners, researchers, teacher trainers, policymakers and other players in the field of CLIL as possible.  EuroCLIC focuses on programmes which entail the use of a modern foreign language as the language of instruction or content and language integrated learning for non-language subjects.

This study takes stock of CLIL provision in the education systems of 30 European countries (its status and that of its target languages), as well as its organisation (admission requirements, aims, the school subjects concerned, pupil assessment).

FACTWorld is a forum set up to support the teaching of subjects through the medium of a foreign language. The site contains links to country reports, links to useful sites and contact details of key people in participating countries.

HLT is an archive in which you will find articles on Humanistic approaches to learning such as Neuro-Linguistic-Programming, Psychodrama, "Psychodramturgie Linguistique" (Bernard Dufeu), Transactional Analysis, creativity, music and language teaching, drama activities for the language classroom,

The ICRJ is an electronic journal which acts as a platform for researchers across the world who work on Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
Links:
CLIL Cascade Network (CCN)
CLIL Consortium
International CLIL Research Journal (ICRJ)

An online journal based in Colombia providing research, commentaries, reflections, and various articles from all over the world. This is a joint partnership among Universidad de La Sabana, Universidad Del Norte, and Pearson Longman Colombia.

Do you teach science, geography or history in English?   For EFL teacher looking for cross-curricular resources.

This section has been set up to collect materials colleagues write to use in conjunction with the Science Across the World programme. (www.factworld.info, www.scienceacross.org)

Focuses on teacher training for CLIL in the Czech Republic. The authors are interested in optimal ways of developing professional skills of prospective teachers – useful strategies for teaching mathematics in English to Czech learners. Charles University, Faculty of Education, Prague,