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The Fusion Effect of CLIL in Language-building and Content-learning

Authors
Xabier San Isidro, Esther Calvo.
Book Title
Quality Interfaces – Examining Evidence and Exploring Solutions in CLIL.
Editors
David Marsh, Oliver Meyer
Year
2012
Pages
103 - 140
DOI
Publisher
Eichstaett Academic Press.
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To talk about CLIL is not only talk about connecting languages across the curriculum, but also about facing mixed-ability groups, dealing with interculturality, providing new answers to teacher training needs, working upon key competencies, integrating 2.0 and 3.0 ICTs, elaborating materials, analysing results, and so on and so forth.Analyses on teachers’ views merged into students’ real results are necessary in order to provide a general picture of how CLIL implementation is taking place at the moment. In this paper we will analyse the results elicited from the first part of a multi-level two-year research study undertaken in Galicia (Spain) aiming at eliciting and analysing: Teachers’ opinions on CLIL implementation, students’ performance and attitudes, support from the government and training needs; and students’ results in 85 primary schools regarding: local languages, additional languages and non-linguistic subjects.