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Pladevall-Ballester, Elisabet – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
Analysing participants' perceptions of a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) experience is essential in order to provide a clear picture of whether CLIL is effectively implemented. This becomes extremely relevant in primary school contexts, where the way the different groups involved in an educational experience feel tends to be highly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Parent Attitudes
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Cenoz, Jasone – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
This article looks at the characteristics of Content-Based Instruction (CBI) and Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in order to examine their similarities and differences. The analysis shows that CBI/CLIL programmes share the same essential properties and are not pedagogically different from each other. In fact, the use of an L2 as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Course Content, Spanish, Native Speakers
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Ozfidan, Burhan; Burlbaw, Lynn M. – Journal of Educational Issues, 2017
This study examines the bilingual education in Spain and in Canada, and discusses their historical backgrounds, current bilingual education programs in use, and teacher proficiency within their bilingual education programs. The purpose of this study is to examine these two countries' bilingual education programs and find a way to implement a…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Bilingual Education Programs, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
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Daryai-Hansen, Petra; Gerber, Brigitte; Lörincz, Ildikó; Haller, Michaela; Ivanova, Olga; Krumm, Hans-Jürgen; Reich, Hans H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
While the idea of plurilingual competence is widely established theoretically and promoted in European language policies, it is not implemented in educational practice, where separate plurilingualism is still dominant. The idea of languages as autonomous entities is e.g. reflected in the "Common European Framework of Reference for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Multilingualism, Guidelines
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Nieto Moreno de Diezmas, Esther – International Journal of English Studies, 2016
The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the effectiveness of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in the acquisition of English language competences (reading, writing, listening and spoken production and interaction) compared to traditional learning of English as a foreign language (EFL) in primary school settings. To do so,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Course Content
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Planas, Núria – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2014
The data reported in this article come from a large project whose goal was to explore how Latin American students in Catalonia, Spain use their two languages--Spanish and Catalan--to support their learning of mathematics in small groups with other students who are Spanish- or Catalan-dominant. For 5 years, lessons from bilingual mathematics…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Spanish, Romance Languages, Bilingual Education
Valadez, Concepción; Etxeberria, Feli; Intxausti, Nahia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
In the Basque Country, Northern Spain, Basque (Euskera) and Spanish are official languages. In recent decades, Basque language revitalization and the efforts to make this an unmarked language (normalization) have co-existed with the rapid increase in immigration from outside the Basque region, and most recently from outside Spain. Given the…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Languages, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Sandoval Brotons, Alfonso Victor – Online Submission, 2015
Bilingualism and its reference methodology: CLIL are spreading at a very fast pace all through educative systems from some years on. The young status of bilingual programmes leads to little research about how bilingualism is influencing real learning contexts and which factors play important roles in that influence. In this way, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Teaching Methods, Course Content, Language of Instruction
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Tsuchiya, Keiko; Pérez Murillo, María D. – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2015
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has been widely implemented in educational systems in Europe since the mid-1990s based on their multilingual education policy. CLIL integrates acquisition of subject knowledge with language learning, either a second or foreign language, simultaneously. Recently, CLIL in English has been introduced in…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Language Planning, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
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Cenoz, Jasone – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2012
This paper examines issues related to the important impact of language policy in the Basque Country in recent decades. Basque, a minority language that was not allowed in the public space until the late 1970s, is an official language along with Spanish in the Basque Autonomous Community. The development of Basque has been most significant in…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Higher Education, Language Planning, Official Languages
Weber, Jean-Jacques – Multilingual Matters, 2014
This book examines the benefits of multilingual education that puts children's needs and interests above the individual languages involved. It advocates flexible multilingual education, which builds upon children's actual home resources and provides access to both the local and global languages that students need for their educational and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Student Needs, Educational Policy
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Serrano, Raquel; Miralpeix, Imma – Language Teaching, 2013
This paper reviews a selection of doctoral theses on language learning and teaching completed in Spain between 2008 and 2010. A total of 16 theses have been identified as representative--in terms of the topics under investigation and the methodology employed--of the doctoral research undertaken in Spain. Current topics include the development of…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Personal Autonomy, Immigrants, Adult Learning
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Ruiz de Zarobe, Yolanda; Coyle, Do – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2015
This article addresses the need to develop new pedagogic approaches which promote learner independence in contexts where learning takes place through the medium of more than one language. The challenges of responding to a rapidly changing educational landscape to ensure that our learners become pluriliterate global citizens are presented through…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Bilingual Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Teaching Methods
Gaminde, Izaskun – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Concerns about bilingual and multilingual programs have been an issue all over the world. Efforts to improve the educational achievement of students from different language backgrounds have created educational settings where teachers are now teaching in a language that is not their own. In the 20th century, many groups have expressed their rights…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Multilingualism, Bilingual Education Programs, Foreign Countries
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Pareja-Lora, Antonio; Rodríguez-Arancón, Pilar; Calle-Martínez, Cristina – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Currently, there is an international change in education that includes the development of new learning programmes and policies, such as (a) bilingual education programmes, (b) the Bologna process, with an emphasis on a more autonomous way of learning, or (c) the systematic evaluation and assessment of students and educational results. These…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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