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Uncovering CLIL
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) refers to methodologies used in teaching situations where a second language is used as a medium for teaching non-language content. Uncovering CLIL has been written to act as a guide for both language and subject teachers to the various methodologies and techniques involved in CLIL teaching.
Packed with practical ideas and suggestions for CLIL teaching in a number of languages, Uncovering CLIL is the essential companion for CLIL teachers instructing students at all levels of education.
KEY FEATURES
• Ideal for teachers getting started in CLIL and exitsing CLIL practitioners in search of new ideas
• Presents a broad overview of CLIL essentials for teachers at both primary and secondary level
• Contains a wide range of practical ideas and activities that can be used in the CLIL classroom
Packed with practical ideas and suggestions for CLIL teaching in a number of languages, Uncovering CLIL is the essential companion for CLIL teachers instructing students at all levels of education.
KEY FEATURES
• Ideal for teachers getting started in CLIL and exitsing CLIL practitioners in search of new ideas
• Presents a broad overview of CLIL essentials for teachers at both primary and secondary level
• Contains a wide range of practical ideas and activities that can be used in the CLIL classroom
240 pages, Paperback
First published March 31, 2008
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Peeter Mehisto
9 books8 followersPeeter Mehisto is Visiting Research Associate, UCL Institute of Education, UK.
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February 19, 2016
This book was so useless I actually think I know less about CLIL than when I started. Seriously, I didn't think that was possible but this book made me doubt the only premise I thought I knew about CLIL before I started: that CLIL, as an idea, exists. This book literally makes me think that CLIL is a meaningless acronym. I actually think less of Macmillan for publishing it at all.
My school told me I would be teaching a CLIL class and I had about a week to plan my curriculum for the year. I've never taught a CLIL subject before so I read this in the hope of getting something out of it. As far as I can tell, nothing in this book is unique to CLIL (despite it repeatedly claiming many of its ideas are).
Maybe this book would be fine for someone who was totally new to teaching and wanted to know what teaching was "about" without critically considering any of it. This book is full of the sort of vacuous language one often finds in empty, feel-good teaching books, throwing out words like "community" or "learner-focused" without explaining how or why they supposedly work.
It makes a lot of claims without backing them up, and recycles discredited ideas such as "learning styles."
Some of the specific advice it gives for CLIL teachers is to speak clearly. Really? I thought teachers were supposed to mumble everything. I guess CLIL is totally different than other kinds of teaching.
My school told me I would be teaching a CLIL class and I had about a week to plan my curriculum for the year. I've never taught a CLIL subject before so I read this in the hope of getting something out of it. As far as I can tell, nothing in this book is unique to CLIL (despite it repeatedly claiming many of its ideas are).
Maybe this book would be fine for someone who was totally new to teaching and wanted to know what teaching was "about" without critically considering any of it. This book is full of the sort of vacuous language one often finds in empty, feel-good teaching books, throwing out words like "community" or "learner-focused" without explaining how or why they supposedly work.
It makes a lot of claims without backing them up, and recycles discredited ideas such as "learning styles."
Some of the specific advice it gives for CLIL teachers is to speak clearly. Really? I thought teachers were supposed to mumble everything. I guess CLIL is totally different than other kinds of teaching.
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