New Publication: Curriculum Integrated Language Teaching CLIL in Practice

This book aims to address the peculiarities of language learning in predominantly Anglophone contexts. Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is the focus of attention, given its potential to meet the challenges faced by teachers of foreign languages in primary and secondary schools. Contributors to the book, writing from UK, Australian and Spanish contexts, consider what CLIL means in their settings in terms of its rationale, aims and practical implementation. Drawing on literature from across the world, research they have carried out and their own practical experience, they move languages education away from the problematic silos that exist within Anglophone curriculum contexts, such as “English as an Additional Language (EAL)”, “academic curriculum subjects”, and “modern foreign languages” towards a more holistic understanding of the value and benefits of languages learning as part of students’ total education experience, including critical and creative thinking, first language literacy and development, and intercultural awareness.