Content and Language Integrated Learning has received a strong tailwind in European educational and language policies. It is on the verge of becoming a mainstream phenomenon. However, an overly speedy implementation of -CLIL for all- might bear a number of risks for all groups of stakeholders. The purpose of this book is to link the growing empirical knowledge about the full complexity of CLIL to the current European educational and language policies. The articles collected in this volume contribute to a more systematic evidence base of CLIL that has frequently been called for at a European...

Teaching language and teaching with languages is what is called for in contemporary classrooms, be they language classrooms or otherwise. When the learners plurilingualism and societies multilingualism have social, cultural or political implications, becoming aware of language matters is a necessity both for non-specialist teachers and language teachers alike. This book thus presents a variety of research-based perspectives on the cultural-political and social-educational domains of language awareness. Context, both historical, socio-economic, political and cultural has an undeniable...

Der Band vereint Beitrage zur interkulturellen Fremdsprachendidaktik von kooperierenden Wissenschaftler/innen aus drei europaischen Landern. Im Zentrum stehen mentale Prozesse des Fremdsprachenerwerbs sowie innovative und handlungsorientierte Unterrichtsformen. Die relevanten Grundbegriffe -Kultur-, -Sprache- und -Verstehen- werden in einem ersten Teil aus Sicht der Mehrsprachigkeitstheorie, des Konstruktivismus und der Relevance Theory untersucht. In einem zweiten Teil werden Formen des Fremdsprachenlernens als mentales Handeln in schulischen Erwerbskontexten beschrieben. Weitere...