CLIL in Switzerland

A meeting for immersion teachers in the Canton of Zurich

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Friday 28th November, 2008

The British Council in Switzerland has run a course on successful CLIL teaching delivered by David Marsh and Do Coyle

COURSE 1: Successful CLIL Teaching
A competence building programme
6-7 March 2007, 19-20 March 2007 and 2-3 May 2007 in Berne

Bilingual Projects in the Canton of Zürich

This is the summary of the presentation: “CLIL – The Zürich Teacher Training Course” by Martina Wider, Fachstelle Fremdsprachen, Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt Zürich

British Council ELT Conference, 5-6 March, 2004: Standards in Language Learning and the Common European Framework

The contact person's details given are:

Martina Wider
Mittelschul- und Berufsbildungsamt
Fachstelle Fremdsprachen
Ausstellungsstrasse 80
CH-8090 Zürich
Tel: +41 43 259 77 64
Martina.wider@mba.zh.ch
www.mba.zh.ch

If you follow the link to the website given here you'll find a lot of links to CLIL related pages.  It's in German, but it is possible to navigate around and find resources, newsletters with updates and with links to materials in the medium of English.

I worked my through the site to Foreign languages and projects

http://www.mba.zh.ch/mba.cfm?ue1=2&ue2=7&ue3=100&action=news&projektstelle=12

A research project being carried out in Switzerland into multilingual education, January 2007

http://www.nfp56.ch/f_projekt.cfm?kati=1

'Construction intégrée des savoirs linguistiques et disciplinaires dans l'enseignement bilingue au secondaire et au tertiaire'

The docmentation is available in French, Italian and German.

VALS-ASLA
Association Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée
http://www.vals-asla.ch                                                                                                             

ASSH Académie suisse des sciences humaines et sociales
Projets prioritaires - Langues et cultures
http://www.assh.ch/languesetcultures                                                                                      

Content and Language Integration in Switzerland, Friday 19^th to 21^st January 2007.

Report on integrating content and language at the Hull School, Zurich, a visit to the Olten Grammar School to work with 16 CLIL teachers and presentations at the annual conference of the English Teachers Association Switzerland... more here.