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Assessing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in French-speaking Belgium: linguistic, cognitive and educational perspectives
Hiligsmann, Philippe; Van Mensel, Luk; Galand, Benoit et al.
2017In Cahiers du Girsef, 17 (109), p. 1-25
 

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Keywords :
Content and Language Integrated learning (CLIL); French-speaking Belgium
Abstract :
[en] In times of globalization, policies increasingly promote multilingualism as a strong social and economic asset. One way to foster multilingualism in education is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), a didactic method in which school subjects are taught in a different target language than the mainstream school language. In the French-speaking Community of Belgium, schools have been allowed to provide CLIL education in Dutch, English or German since 1998. To this day, however, we only have an incomplete and fragmented view on how CLIL differs from non-CLIL education and on how it impacts second/foreign language acquisition. The aim of this contribution is threefold: (a) to discuss the particularities of CLIL education in French-speaking Belgium, (b) to give an overview of the research conducted on CLIL education in French-speaking Belgium, and (c) to briefly present the goals of a large-scale longitudinal and interdisciplinary study currently being conducted at Université catholique de Louvain and Université de Namur. This interdisciplinary study aims to make a strong empirical and theoretical contribution to both the public debate and the ongoing international scientific discussions on multilingualism in general and CLIL in particular.
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
Hiligsmann, Philippe;  Université catholique de Louvain
Van Mensel, Luk;  Université de Namur
Galand, Benoit;  Université catholique de Louvain
Mettewie, Laurence;  Université de Namur - UNamur
Meunier, Fanny;  Université catholique de Louvain
Szmalec, Arnaud;  Université catholique de Louvain
Van Goethem, Kristel;  F.R.S.-FNRS & Université catholique de Louvain
Bulon, Amélie;  Université catholique de Louvain
De Smet, Audrey;  Université catholique de Louvain
Hendrikx, Isa  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad.
Simonis, Morgane;  Université catholique de Louvain
Language :
English
Title :
Assessing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in French-speaking Belgium: linguistic, cognitive and educational perspectives
Publication date :
2017
Journal title :
Cahiers du Girsef
Volume :
17
Issue :
109
Pages :
1-25
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