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Conceptualising the Potential Role of L1 in CLIL
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Lin, Angel M. Y. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a rapidly growing area of both research and practice in all parts of the world, especially in Europe and Asia. As a young discipline, CLIL has a good potential of distinguishing itself from monolingual L2 immersion education models by becoming more flexible and balanced about the role of L1 in…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Course Content
A Review of Research on Content-Based Foreign/Second Language Education in US K-12 Contexts
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Tedick, Diane J.; Wesely, Pamela M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2015
This review of the extant research literature focuses on research about content-based language instruction (CBI) programmes in K-12 foreign/second language education in the USA. The review emphasises studies on one-way language immersion (OWI) and two-way language immersion (TWI) programmes, which are school-based and subject matter-driven. OWI…
Descriptors: Course Content, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Second Language Acquisition in French Immersion in Canada: Characteristics and Implications.
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Safty, Adel – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1990
Describes the Canadian program of French immersion in terms of current issues in the theory of second-language (L2) learning, including the role of consciousness, optimal timing of L2 learning, communicative competency classification, and the role of the first language. Implications for L2 pedagogy and requirements for a new language pedagogy are…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Foreign Countries, French