Are you an international schoolteacher of any subject looking to support your students’ English language development? CLIL is a methodology focusing on the simultaneous learning of language and content from a specific subject area such as science, literature, or maths.
This webinar will provide an overview of the key ideas offered by the CLIL approach and look at how these might be integrated into the effective teaching of curricular content to EAL learners in international school settings. This will include ideas for considering language needs in lesson planning, successful collaboration between EAL and subject teachers, and practical examples of using a CLIL approach in different subject areas and with different age groups.
This webinar is suitable for primary and secondary educators of EAL learners in international settings who are new to CLIL or who would like to revisit CLIL through an EAL lens.
Areas of focus will include:
- A definition of CLIL and why it can be useful in an EAL context;
- The 4 Cs of CLIL: content, communication, culture, and cognition;
- Principles for language practice within a CLIL approach (Ball et al., 2015);
- What a CLIL approach means for teacher collaboration.
Ball P., Kelly, K., & Clegg J. (2015). Putting CLIL into Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Who is this webinar for?
Primary and secondary international school staff, including:
- Classroom and subject teachers who teach EAL learners;
- Anyone with responsibility for EAL and/or CPD.
By attending this webinar, you will:
- Be better able to choose which language is most important to focus on when supporting EAL learners.
- Feel more confident planning for language learning opportunities in multilingual classrooms.
- Learn how to integrate language and content learning in a more systematic and principled way.
- Be able to identify the most useful aspects of CLIL practice for your own context.
If you have any questions specifically related to the webinar topic which you would like answered during the live session, please send them to: webinar@bell-foundation.org.uk.
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Biography:
Tom Beakes joined The Bell Foundation in 2020. Tom has worked in language education since 2003 and has taught in China, Japan, Ecuador and north Africa. His main areas of interest are international education and teacher development. He holds an MA in anthropological linguistics and is CELTA and DELTA qualified. He has worked as a teacher trainer in the UK and abroad and is a regular speaker and presenter at EAL events.
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