CLIL teacher beliefs as they emerge working in tandem
The current article investigates the beliefs of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) subject and language
teacher tandems in a situation where they worked in close contact to design and deliver a CLIL course. The aim was to discover their
underlying beliefs concerning setting learning goals, developing academic language proficiency, using authentic materials and cooperative
tasks, and managing assessment. The Interpretative Phenomenological Approach revealed both overlapping and idiosyncratic beliefs involving
all of the focal aspects. Common beliefs included the dominance of subject learning goals over language goals, the need to develop academic
language proficiency, the use of authentic materials and cooperative tasks as sources of subject knowledge and skills, as well as the need
to involve appropriate assessment in the process. Differences included flexibility in the process of goal setting, the definition of
academic language proficiency, the meaning of authentic learning materials and the repertoire of tools available for scaffolding learning
and managing assessment.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical background
- 2.1CLIL teacher identity
- 2.2CLIL teacher beliefs
- 2.3CLIL tandem teacher collaboration
- 2.4CLIL essential aspects in focus in the current study
- 3.Methods
- 3.1Context of the study
- 3.2Participants
- 3.3Data collection and analysis
- 4.Findings: The phenomenological perspective
- 4.1Setting learning goals
- 4.2Attaining academic language proficiency
- 4.3Promoting collaborative learning
- 4.4Using authentic materials and authentic learning tasks
- 4.5Managing Assessment
- 5.Discussion
- 5.1The hermeneutic perspective
- 5.2The idiographic perspective
- 6.Conclusion
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