CLUNL

CLIL in Languages Other Than English – Successful Transitions across Educational Stages

Identification

• Project identification: CLIL in Languages Other Than English – Successful Transitions across Educational Stages
• Coordination: Petra Daryai-Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
• Researcher of CLUNL: Olga Heitor (Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology group)
• Duration: 2020 – 2023
• Funding: European Centre for Modern Languages of the European Council
  
• Website: www.ecml.at/CLILLOTEtransitions

Description

“Languages Other Than English (LOTE) – i.e. foreign language subjects such as e.g. French, German, Spanish – face a crisis in many European countries. Even if pupils learn LOTE as part of their primary or secondary education, there is a tendency that afterwards they do not continue to learn nor to use these languages. Very few students use their LOTE competences at tertiary level. However, studies show that there is a strong demand for proficiency in these languages in the labour market.

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) creates situations for content-based, meaningful language use in LOTE classrooms or in other subjects, hereby promoting learners’ motivation for LOTE. Building on previous ECML projects, the project will develop recommendations to implement CLIL in Languages Other Than English across educational stages (primary, secondary, tertiary). The project conceptualises CLIL as part of intercultural education and links CLIL to plurilingual education while promoting language awareness through its focus on LOTE and a pluralistic approach to languages within CLIL.”

(Retrieved from the webpage of ECML)

Team

Group 4: Teaching materials, A pluriliteracies approach to teaching for learning
Ana Kanareva-Dimitrovska (Coordinator, Aarhus Universitet)
Olga Heitor

Full information at:
https://www.ecml.at/ECML-Programme/Programme2020-2023/CLILinlanguagesotherthanEnglish/Recentdevelopments/tabid/5543/language/en-GB/Default.aspx