Café CLIL - A place to come and talk about (and listen to) the issues.

The recordings you will find here are all from volunteers interested in the area of foreign language medium education.  The Café CLIL discussions began in December 2008, simply as a way of promoting sharing and discussion of the issues related to work in the area of Content and Language Integrated Learning in a relaxed atmosphere.  Hence the name, Café CLIL.  So, get yourself a cuppa, tea, coffee, or whatever you prefer, and join us.

- Getting started

- The Ideal CLIL Teacher

- CLIL TT

- The CLIL Debate

- Dialogue between language and content

- Assessment in CLIL

- Use of L1 in the CLIL Classroom

- Skills for CLIL: Reading

- Supporting Talk in Content Subjects

- Teacher Collaboration for CLIL

- Language of Content: Chemistry Acid Rain

- Language of Maths - Averages

- Young Learners and CLIL

- Re-defining CLIL

- Two languages in the CLIL classroom

- Hard and Soft CLIL Teacher Skills

- English in the Wider World

- Moving to English-medium Education

Café CLIL

Discussion 13: Content and Language Integrated Learning and Young Learners

An important theme which focuses entirely on issues related to integrating the curriculum and foreign languages with young learners. Am sure there will be a lot of debate with this theme.

16.09.10 (18.00-19.00 Central EU time)

Discussion 13: Young Learners and CLIL

Café CLIL

Discussion 12: The language of content - Mathematics Topic (Averages: Data Handling)

Reporting back on conferences and meetings; discussion on the language of the Mathematics topic Averages: Data Handling, demands on learners, strategies and techniques for dealing with this language in the CLIL classroom.

15.06.10 (17.30-18.30 Central EU time)

Discussion 12: The language of content - Mathematics

Café CLIL

Discussion 11: The language of content - Chemistry Topic (Acid rain)

(Reporting back on conferences and meetings; discussion on the language of the chemistry topic acid rain, demands on learners, strategies and techniques for dealing with this language in the CLIL classroom.)

18.05.10 (17.00-18.00 Central EU time)

Discussion 11: The language of content - Chemistry

KK - Keith Kelly (Host, Bulgaria)

LD'A - Lauretta D'Angelo (Italy)

PR - Peach Richmond (Switzerland)

LS - Luis Strasser (Austria)

SW - Steve Watts (Czech Republic)

JC - John Clegg (UK)

EW - Egbert Weisheit (Germany)

AB - Andreas Baernthaler (Austria)

Discussion 10: CLIL suggests an integration of subject and language - How can we get teachers collaborating?

(Reporting back on conferences and meetings; discussion on strategies and techniques for encouraging collaboration and integration in teaching and learning.)

10.03.10 (17.00-18.00 Central EU time)

Discussion 10: How can we get teachers collaborating?

EW - Egbert Weisheit (Germany)

KK - Keith Kelly (Host, Bulgaria)

BM - Bernd Morlock (Germany)

LS - Lida Schoen (Holland)

LD'A - Lauretta D'Angelo (Italy)

JC - John Clegg (UK)

PR - Peach Richmond (Switzerland)

AT - Adrian Tennant (UK)

Discussion 09: Supporting Talk in Content Subjects

(Reporting back on conferences and meetings; discussion on strategies and techniques for supporting talk in the CLIL classroom)

11.12.09 (17.00-18.00 Central EU time)

BM - Bernd Morlock (Germany)

KK - Keith Kelly (Host, Bulgaria)

JC - John Clegg (UK)

LS - Lida Schoen (Holland)

LD - Lyubov Dombeva (Bulgaria)

PR - Peach Richmond (Switzerland)

SK - Stefka Kitanova (Bulgaria)

28.10.09 (17.00-18.00 Central EU time)

Discussion 08: Skills for CLIL: Reading

(Reporting back on conferences and meetings; discussion on strategies and techniques for developing reading skills in the CLIL classroom)

Keith Kelly, Bulgaria (host)

Lauretta D'Angelo, Italy

Bernd Morlock, Germany

John Clegg, UK

Adrian Tennant, UK

Peach Richmond, Switzerland

Lyubov Dombeva, Bulgaria

Stefka Kitanova, Bulgaria

19.09.09 (17.00-18.00 Central EU time)

Discussion 07_Use of L1

(Reporting back on conferences and meetings; discussion on use of the mother tongue in the CLIL classroom)

Keith Kelly, Bulgaria (host)

Lauretta D'Angelo, Italy

Bernd Morlock, Germany

John Clegg, UK

10.06.09 (18.00-19.00 Central EU time)

Discussion 06_Assessment in CLIL

(Reporting back on conferences and meetings; discussion on assessment and testing in CLIL)

Participants:

Keith Kelly, Bulgaria (host)

Sabine Sauerwein, Germany

Peach Richmond, Switzerland

Lauretta D'Angelo, Italy

Lyubov Dombeva, Bulgaria

Adrian Tennant, UK

Discussion 05: Dialogue between language and content

06.05.09 (17.00 central EU time)

Discussion 05_dialogue between language and content

(Reporting back on conferences; Question forms in the classroom; CLIL teacher training)

Participants:

Keith Kelly, Bulgaria (host)

Lauretta D'Angelo, Italy

Peach Richmond, Switzerland

Sabine Sauerwein, Germany

Cristiana Ziraldo, Italy

Lyubov Dombeva, Bulgaria 

Discussion 04: The CLIL Debate

03.04.09

Discussion 04_CLIL_Debate

CLIL: Complementing or Compromising English Language Teaching?

Participants:

Keith Kelly, Bulgaria (host)

Egbert Weisheit, Germany

Lyubov Dombeva, Bulgaria

John Clegg, UK

27.02.09

Discussion 03_CLIL_Content_TT

(What goes into a training course for content CLIL teachers?)

Keith Kelly, Bulgaria (host)

Lauretta D'Angelo, Italy

Peach Richmond, Switzerland

Egbert Weisheit, Germany

Lida Schoen, Holland

Discussion 02: The Ideal CLIL Teacher

22.01.09

Discussion_02_Ideal_CLIL_Teacher

Keith Kelly, Bulgaria (host)

Bernd Morlock, Germany

Lauretta D'Angelo, Italy

Peach Richmond, Switzerland

19.12.08

Discussion_01: Getting started

Keith Kelly, Bulgaria (host)

Bernd Morlock, Germany

Lauretta D'Angelo, Italy

If you'd like to get involved in these discussions, just drop me a line (keithpkelly@yahoo.co.uk) with an indication of preferred date, time and topic(s) in order of preference.  Please also include a short text about your work background and interest in CLIL to be published on this site.  Please note also that all discussion will be recorded and published here after the meeting.  Skype offers a maximum conference number of 24, so there's room for more, though I'm not sure we'll practically manage so many colleagues talking at once!