Adapting CLIL Principles to Design Tasks for the Local Language Needs in the Content Classroom

Description

Teachers often encounter a pressing question as linguistically diverse students enter their content classroom: Where and how do I create opportunities to develop students' second language in my content classroom?  As expectations increase to support students’ linguistic development in their content classroom, teachers are often left on their own to figure out how to balance teaching content- and language-oriented outcomes, often referred to as Content-Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). This results in either teaching only the target language or not at all. In this public lecture, the talk will review the methodology surrounding CLIL pedagogy and then provide teachers with a few examples of how teachers have adapted CLIL. Lastly, the talk will conclude by leaving teachers with activities to help them bridge the provided examples to their classroom to fit what they learned to their local needs in the classroom.

Period	15 Jan 2026
Held at	Language Centre
Degree of Recognition	Faculty