Samenvatting

Part 1 of English as a Medium of Learning in Schools addresses key approaches and terminology related to teaching and learning subjects through English in primary and secondary schools. In addition, it presents a range of benefits and some challenges that teachers and learners face in EML contexts. Benefits include the development of teacher and learner language; active and interactive subject teaching and learning; effective thinking in both content and language, and subject resources that widen cultural perspectives. Challenges focus on the language demands of subject content, knowledge of subject content and rethinking how to teach subjects in EML