posted by Jürgen Kurtz, Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany
The International CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) Conference 2010 “In Pursuit of Excellence: Uncovering CLIL Quality by CLIL Practitioners – Evidencing CLIL Quality by CLIL Researchers” will be held September 30 to October 2 at the University of Eichstätt in Germany. For more information, including the call for contributions, see the webpages of the CLIL Consortium.
Categories: CLIL · TESOL · education · foreign language education · foreign language learning · foreign language learning and teaching · foreign language pedagogy · language education · school
Tagged: CLIL, education, foreign language education, foreign language learning and teaching, foreign language pedagogy, second language acquisition, SLA
posted by Jürgen Kurtz, Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany
The 23rd Biennial Conference 2009 of the German Society for Foreign Language Research (DGFF) will be held September 30 to October 3 at the University of Leipzig, Germany. The conference theme is: Transcending Linguistic, Cultural and Disciplinary Borders (Grenzen überschreiten: sprachlich – fachlich – kulturell). The university is currently celebrating its 600 year anniversary (1409-2009).
Keynote presentations by Georges Lüdi, Michael Tomasello and Rebecca Oxford.
Special emphasis is placed on the following topics (in twelve sections):
- Early foreign language learning
- Foreign language teacher education
- Research methodology
- Psycholinguistic and sociocultural approaches to language learning
- Transcending linguistic boundaries: focus on Mehrsprachigkeitsdidaktik
- Bilingual education / CLIL
- European and global language politics
- Digital media in foreign / second language education
- Transcending boarders in teaching literature
- Developing intercultural competence
- Task-based instruction
- Monitoring, assessment, evaluation
The twelve (additional) workshops offered cover a wide range of related topics such as the multilingual classroom, migration, drama pedagogy, classroom-based research, etc.
Nationally and internationally, the DGFF conference has a reputation as a comprehensive and stimulating event including a broad spectrum of workshops and poster sessions, thought-provoking presentations, book displays by various publishers, and plentiful opportunities for networking.
For more specific information, click on the above link.
Categories: CLIL · TEFL · TESOL · education · foreign language education · foreign language learning · foreign language learning and teaching · foreign language pedagogy · teaching
Tagged: foreign language learning and teaching, foreign language education, TEFL, TESOL, CLIL
posted by Jürgen Kurtz, Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany
In order to understand recent developments in teaching English as a foreign or second language, including task-based instruction (TBI), content-based instruction (CBI) as well as content and language integrated learning (CLIL), it is important to know about the history of foreign language education.
The following three audio-supported presentations take you on a journey through the past, beginning just before the (European) Modern Language Reform Movement in the late nineteenth century. The history of foreign language education goes back much further than that, of course, (see, for instance, Hüllen 2005), and it needs to be looked at from a more global perspective that is not reduced to developments in Britain and in the United States. Nevertheless, these presentations are well-worth a view, especially for ‘TEFL-novices’ (as a ’springboard’ into the literature):
Language teaching from the 1970s onwards
Hüllen, Werner (2005). Kleine Geschichte des Fremdsprachenlernens. Berlin: Schmidt.
Categories: CLIL · CLT · communicative language teaching · foreign language education · foreign language learning · foreign language learning and teaching · foreign language pedagogy · language education · learning English · task-based
Tagged: foreign language learning and teaching, foreign language pedagogy, foreign language education, TEFL, TESOL, CLT, CLIL
posted by Jürgen Kurtz, Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany
In this video, Rod Bolitho talks about the future of English language teaching, placing particular emphasis on content and language integrated learning (CLIL):
I agree in principle, but I would like to emphasize that in my view CLIL and TEFL should not be set in opposition to each other.
Apart from this, I would like to add that up to now there are only two German universities offering specific study programs in bilingual education (CLIL in combination with European studies). These so called European teacher (Europalehramt) programs (i.e. eight semester M.A. degree courses) focus on empowering students to teach a school subject in either English or French. For further details see the Freiburg University of Education and / or the Karlsruhe University of Education webpages.
Categories: CLIL · TEFL · TESOL · foreign language education · foreign language learning · foreign language learning and teaching · foreign language pedagogy · instruction · language education
Tagged: CLIL, foreign language education, foreign language pedagogy, TEFL, TESOL
posted by Jürgen Kurtz, Karlsruhe University of Education, Germany
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language. In October 2008, a major international CLIL conference will be held in Tallinn, Estonia. The overall theme is:
“CLIL Fusion – Multilingual Mindsets in a Multicultural World – Building Quality Learning Communities”
The conference will be addressing these key issues:
For more specific information, see the webpages of the European CLIL Consortium.
Categories: education · foreign language education · foreign language learning · foreign language pedagogy · teaching
Tagged: CLIL, foreign language learning and teaching
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