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Useful links, resources and networks
| Country sites on CLIL: ►The website for the Basque multilingual curriculum project. The site has free access to six years of English-medium curriculum materials from primary through secondary. This site gets a FACTWorld smiley! http://www.gipuztik.net/ingelesa/ ►The Website describes a CLIL Project originating from Lombardia, Northern Italy gives outline for teacher training module for CLIL. ►This site describes an initiative to develop UK CLIL initiatives in the primary and secondary sectors. ►Spanish list of links to CLIL http://www.blinklist.com/tag/CLIL/ ►French outline of CLIL http://perso.orange.fr/coquilhat/clil/clil.html ►Special Interest Group on CLIL in Latvia http://www.late.lv/?id=7&sid=29 ►German perspective on CLIL: www.uni-essen.de/anglistik/frameworkCLIL.doc
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| Subject sites useful for CLIL teachers ►Science Across the World is a number of things. It's a database of school contacts and potential partners (over 5000 of them). It's a bank of 20 topic resources in general Science areas such as Health, Diet, Environment. It's a place to find exchange project resources and partners working in multiple languages. Many of the topics have language teaching notes. It's the bees knees and a good place to start if you're new to integrating content and language and would like ready-made materials to work with. This site gets a FACTWorld smiley! ►The British Biotechnology and Biological research council has great resources free in the ‘downloads’ section. Gene Kelly was born here in the section on Genetics for kids. ►The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Go to ‘public and schools’ and ‘free publications’ for wonderful wall posters on Space with teachers’ notes. http://www.pparc.ac.uk/Ed/pubs.asp ►The Association for Science Education in the UK has some wonderful resources on it. Go to www.sycd.co.uk for 6 Science Year CDs with links to thousands of pages of materials, software, drama, video and more and also go to the UPD8 link for science lessons based on the latest news stories. This site gets a FACTWorld smiley!
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| Papers on CLIL and CLIL-related issues ►In the TeachingEnglish site there are two programmes with interviews with a variety of CLIL people which can be heard online here: Part 1 Part 2 ►The Guardian ran a debate in 2005 at the IATEFL Conference in Cardiff on the future of language education and more generally about Content and Language Integrated Learning which can still be followed here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/clildebate/0,,1469879,00.html ►The OneStopEnglish site offers a short outline of what CLIL is http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?sectionType=listsummary&catid=58021 ►Interesting Blog personal opinion on CLIL http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/clil/index.html ►A Slovak paper on CLIL Teacher Training provision stwww.weizmann.ac.il/G-math/ICMI/Novotna_Jarmila-Hofmannova_Marie_ICMI15_prop.doc ►Content of MA diploma at Nottingham University where CLIL TT is offered ►Research on CLIL from Finland http://www.jyu.fi/hum/laitokset/kielet/varieng/en/personnel/nikula/discoursepragmatic
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| Networks ►Factworld (Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching) – a group of 2600 (as of Sept 2006) colleagues to share with, materials, information. Teachers of all subjects all over the world working in many languages. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/factworld/ ►ELTeCS (the English Language Teaching Contacts Scheme). This is the biggest electronic network of teachers that I know of with around 20,000 teachers globally. There's also the chance to apply for funding for small projects, up to €5000 twice a year. ►AEDE - The Association Europeenne D'Enseignants (European Association of Teachers)
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| EU and Regional websites on CLIL: ►The forum for across the curriculum teaching portal – put your flag here, reports, materials, information. Ethical English and Share Your World are available on this site. ►European Content and Language Integrated Classrooms (shame the journal is not running anymore, stopped in 2001) http://www.euroclic.net/index.php?inhoud=inhoud/news/main.inc This link is to Eurydice where you can find reports on CLIL for most if not all of the countries in Europe. If the link above doesn't work you can go to the home page at http://oraprod.eurydice.org/index.shtml and from their go to the Foreign Languages link and find CLIL there ►The CLIL Axis offers a round up of a number of CLIL countries with a particular focus on team teaching and a small number of video clips of CLIL lessons which the browser can download http://www.clil-axis.net/potential_clil_in_action.htm plus check out the weblinks ►The CLIL Compendium is a portal which offers a detailed and useful-looking structure outlining Content and Language Integrated Learning. The site is useful for reading descriptors of different contexts of CLIL. http://www.clilcompendium.com/ ►The CLIL Matrix is an audit of what is going on in CLIL around Europe and the site isn't finished yet, Nov 2006 and Jan 2007 are dates to look out for. http://www.ecml.at/mtp2/CLILmatrix/ ►This site offers an archive for materials storage in a number of subject areas. The project is still under construction as of September 2006. |
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| Other non-CLIL sites which may be useful ►The BBC website has a very useful section called 'Learning' which has links to a vast range of curriculum-related and educational websites and resources. This site gets a FACTWorld smiley! ►National Curriculum UK (go to standards for examples of children’s work and lesson plans), take a look at ‘attainment targets’ for achievement descriptors. http://www.nc.uk.net/index.html ►An online catalogue of learning resources linked specifically to the UK national curriculum ►Making the News is an online forum for publishing students' work. At the moment, Oct 2006, the focus is on Climate Change and there are a number of student articles available. http://kmi4schools.e2bn.net/rostra/news.php?r=8 ►Enchanted Learning is for those of you interested in a website where you can find just about every visual you can imagine for a learning purpose in different subjects, contribution to pay for access to materials. Very simple, but so very useful. Worth every penny!. This site gets a FACTWorld smiley! ►ESP World - a web-based journal on English for Specific purposes with many articles on a wide range of issues in this field. Good place to look for research work and discussion on ESP.
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| Any Other Business: ►Strange fairytale on CLIL which I think is delivering a message saying that CLIL is an attempt at offering something new but which only creates confusion: http://www.witchhazel.it/teachers_development.htm
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