TY - JOUR
T1 - CLIL Teacher training and teachers’ choices
T2 - exploring planned language use in the Australian context
AU - Turner, Marianne
AU - Fielding, Ruth
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The term ‘CLIL’ has been used in Australia for over a decade, and the approach has helped to invigorate languages education in both primary and secondary schools. In particular, the flexibility of CLIL has led to a range of teachers accessing CLIL training: from teachers in structured programs where schools have committed to organisational change, to teachers driving initiatives where schools have accepted, but not substantially committed to, initiatives. However, although the flexibility has helped more teachers and schools experiment with putting a target language across the curriculum, we propose that the significant role context plays in the implementation of CLIL has implications both for teacher training and for ways in which languages (the target language and the dominant language) are used in the classroom. To illustrate this, we draw on data we collected from six different qualitative studies investigating a total of five primary schools and four secondary schools across the two Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria.
AB - The term ‘CLIL’ has been used in Australia for over a decade, and the approach has helped to invigorate languages education in both primary and secondary schools. In particular, the flexibility of CLIL has led to a range of teachers accessing CLIL training: from teachers in structured programs where schools have committed to organisational change, to teachers driving initiatives where schools have accepted, but not substantially committed to, initiatives. However, although the flexibility has helped more teachers and schools experiment with putting a target language across the curriculum, we propose that the significant role context plays in the implementation of CLIL has implications both for teacher training and for ways in which languages (the target language and the dominant language) are used in the classroom. To illustrate this, we draw on data we collected from six different qualitative studies investigating a total of five primary schools and four secondary schools across the two Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria.
KW - Australia
KW - CLIL
KW - L1 use
KW - planned language use
KW - teacher training
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088024998&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07908318.2020.1792920
DO - 10.1080/07908318.2020.1792920
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088024998
VL - 34
SP - 224
EP - 241
JO - Language, Culture and Curriculum
JF - Language, Culture and Curriculum
SN - 0790-8318
IS - 3
ER -