Content Based Instruction in Context: Practical Guidance for Educators - The Cambridge Teacher Series

Content Based Instruction in Context: Practical Guidance for Educators

Authors: Fred Genesee and Else Hamayan

CLIL in Context is a comprehensive, practical guide to CLIL in different educational contexts. The authors provide tips on how to implement CLIL for majority language students in dual language programs, for minority and indigenous language students who are learning through a second language and for students learning an additional language in foreign language contexts.

They provide plenty of real life examples and useful tools for working with the community, planning instruction, selecting materials and assessing student learning. All of this is supported by commentaries from educators and students around the world who have adopted a CLIL approach.

Features:

• A unit/lesson planning tool that is indispensable for planning CLIL instruction
• Plenty of checklists and tips for implementing CLIL in the classroom
• Includes tips on how to start a new CLIL programme and to improve an existing programme
• Includes notes that link practice to research evidence
• Provides lists of Additional Resources for readers who want to dig deeper
• Personal commentaries from practitioners and students in CLIL programmes add context and draw on real-life examples and success stories
• Lots of real life practical examples of CLIL in action.