Liz is a CLIL and language teacher educator, senior lecturer, author, and researcher. Her publications include CLIL Skills, CLIL Activities, a doctoral thesis on the role of English teachers in bilingual streams and articles on multilingualism. She also chairs audit panels for bilingual streams in vocational …

This study investigates how pre-service Teachers of English in Bilingual Streams’ (TEBs) perceptions of plurilingualism are elicited through carrying out small-scale research with learners. It builds on previous studies showing positive relations between teacher education and shifts in pre-service teachers’ …

Bilingual education using a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach is widespread in secondary education throughout Europe and also found further afield. In many contexts CLIL seems to select or attract the more able and more academically-inclined pupils, or only be available to pupils …

This chapter explores issues encountered by beginning CLIL teachers in making sense of and applying guidelines aimed at teachers when designing learning experiences for CLIL. After summarising current guidelines, the authors draw on Coyle et al.’s (2010) 4Cs model, an additional C for collaboration and …

Teaching history requires clear, detailed and subject specific language. History teachers teaching in a second language are confronted with students' second language limitations, which likely have an aggravating impact on their application of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). We analysed and compared …

Hoofdstuk 12 in J. Duarte, M. Günther-Van der Meij, C. Frijns, & B. Gezelle Meerburg (Reds.), Talenbewust lesgeven: Aan de slag met talige diversiteit in het basisonderwijs

Research into how and why language teachers use literature as content is presented to explore one aspect of various pedagogical and collaborative practices open to language teachers in CLIL contexts. Language teachers’ beliefs and practices are examined based on a literature review, focus group study, …

Taal speelt een essentiële rol in het leren, ook in zaakvakken zoals wereldoriëntatie of geschiedenis. Soms worden deze vakken in het Engels gegeven (CLIL). We ontwerpen lesstrategieën en lesmaterialen om het leren in CLIL-contexten bevorderen door.

Er werd opdracht gegeven om vanuit de minor meertaligheid in internationaal perspectief in overleg te gaan met een basisschool om een praktijkprobleem te zoeken voor een literatuuronderzoek. Al snel bleek dat er op de ... in ... geen Friese methode was, vanwege de fusie van een jaar daarvoor. In overleg …