Welcome to the one stop shop website for teachers interested in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)

 

STOP PRESS:  The Languages Company has published a new CLIL Statement and Guidelines which can be downloaded here...

 

 

Who are we?

This wiki is hosted by the Association for Language Learning and is managed and maintained by the Association's CLIL Special Interest Group. We hope you will enjoy exploring the site, adding comments, contributing to the discussions and sharing resources and useful websites. Don't hesitate to ask questions - hopefully there will be someone who has the answer!  The best place to post questions is on the Discussion page - just write a comment.

 

Requesting access

To contribute resources, you need to click on the request access button, leaving a short message to let us know what your interest in CLIL is. The wiki owner will then give you writer status. In the unlikely event that a contribution is offensive, it will be removed and the person responsible will no longer be able to contribute to the site.

 

Membership of ALL

Not yet a member of ALL? Don't miss out on a host of activities and events around the country and the weekly e-newsletter to keep you up to date. Find out more about membership... and have a look at the events...

 

Please upload your resources!

We are already building up a fantastic range of resources - thank you to all our contributors. The more there are, the more useful the website will be, so please contribute your own resources. If you are not sure how to do that, please leave a message (via the Contact the Owner link at the bottom of the page) and we can then arrange for you to email them instead.

 

News and information

 

The video about CLIL filmed at Chenderit School last term can be seen here...

 

Hope those of you who attended enjoyed the Language World conference.  Speakers included Judith Woodfield (seen in the Chenderit video), Ana Neofitou and Jo Redford from Tile Hill Wood (famous for CLIL!), Mike Ullmann, Katie Lee, and last but not least Do Coyle! Many thanks to all the CLIL presenters for creating the first ever CLIL strand at Language World - a first that we hope to build on in the coming year.

 

Katie has sent in an interesting account of the TDA's new Secondary Language Exchange Project which enables trainee teachers to learn about and develop their skills in CLIL. You can read the report here or find it in the News folder in the side bar. Do send us any other news that is relevant to CLIL.

 

Have you seen the EU's CLIL Cascade Network site?  It's at http://www.ccn-clil.eu/.  CCN is a free international resource for all educators involved with CLIL working at different levels of education.and in different languages.  It aims to consolidate local, regional and national network activities in CLIL at a European level so as to accellerate development of teacher competencies and qualifications, localised and regional competence building.

 

There are now more detailed instructions about how to post a resource on to the wiki. But if you get stuck, help is at hand - just post a comment. The page with instructions can be accessed through the link above or from the Resource Bank.

 

Slides from the conference at The Willink School can be downloaded from the events page. It was a fantastic event - with many thanks to Katie and colleagues for organising it, and to Liz for posting the speakers' materials on the wiki. Events

---

Message from Do Coyle

 

Many of you will know Do Coyle, who has championed the cause of CLIL for many years. We are most grateful to Do for helping us to set up the CLIL Special Interest Group and for sending us this message:

 

I am delighted that ALL has taken the initiative to set up a SIG for CLIL. With the introduction of the new curriculum and a greater emphasis on creativity then cross- curricular initiatives are certainly being promoted and encouraged. To all of you who have been involved with CLIL or for those who are interested in any way, then it is timely that we must work together to give a collective voice to CLIL in the UK. There are many colleagues in our European and international networks who have been using a CLIL approach in subject teaching, in MFL and in cross-curricular projects with whom we can link and share ideas. CLIL will provide us with a creative and dynamic forum through which to explore making our teaching and learning environments more motivating and engaging not only for the students we teach but also for ourselves. So the time is right for us in the UK to make a significant contribution to the CLIL movement and to ensure that or colleagues throughout the land are aware of its potential. During the last year, I have been in contact with many teachers who are hoping to start to experiment with CLIL modules and those that are building on past experiences. We can now start to bring this altogether… so let’s get going…..

 

Do

 

You can download here Do's article about the contribution CLIL can make to our national languages capability.

 

---

Take a tour of the site...

---

What's on?

Have a look at the events page to find out about relevant workshops, meetings and conferences.

---

Encouragement for CLIL in the English curriculum...

In England there is now lots of encouragement for primary and secondary schools to explore how they can link language learning to other subjects of the curriculum?  There are references in the Languages Review (2007) and in the revised programme of study for languages in the new secondary curriculum.  There is also useful information together with case studies and links on the CILT website (CILT is the National Centre for Languages). 

---

Do you have any resources to share?

If so, have a look at our Resource Bank   

---

Would you value an opportunity to discuss ideas with other teachers?

Please contribute to our Discussion page.  

---

Do you have news to share?

We now have a News folder. Create a page with your news and post it in the folder, or email it (through the Contact the owner link at the bottom of the page).