How To Write CLIL Materials: Training Course For ELT Writers, #25

By Amanda McLoughlin

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) materials are typically used in bilingual and international schools where school subjects are taught in the target language. This is an area of ELT that is difficult to publish global materials for and throws up a different set of challenges for the ELT writer. Is the syllabus driven by the language or the subject? How can you support the linguistic demands without watering down the subject content? How can assessment avoid penalising students who are good at the subject, but weaker at English? Once you can answer these questions, you'll be able to develop materials that, according to recent research, help learners not only outperform their non-CLIL peers in English, but also in science, maths and even in their mother tongue.

This book provides:
- dozens of illustrative examples from published CLIL materials.
- guidance on liaising with other departments.
- reflective tasks and suggested answers.
- a checklist to evaluate the CLIL materials that you'll create.

This book forms part of the ELT Teacher 2 Writer training course. The course is designed to help you write better ELT materials, either for publication, or simply to improve the quality of your self-produced classroom materials.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ELT
• Release date: Feb 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005810269

Book preview

HOW TO WRITE CLIL MATERIALS

Amanda McLoughlin

TRAINING COURSE FOR ELT WRITERS

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How to Write CLIL Materials

By Amanda McLoughlin

© 2021 ELT Teacher 2 Writer

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The author and publishers would like to thank the following publishers for providing PDFs of their published materials to illustrate some of the points made in this book:

History 4 (pages 123, 117 and 159), 2012, Harri Beobide and Phil Ball, Ikastolen Elkartea (Federation of Basque Schools), Donosti, Spain

INICIA Geography and History 4 Teacher’s Book (pages 90, 148 and 192), Amanda Jane McLoughlin, Oxford University Press España, S.A. 2017

Think, Do, Learn Natural Sciences 5 Madrid Edition, Classbook (pages 55, 56, 57, 62) Amanda Jane McLoughlin and Robert Quinn, Oxford University Press España S.A. 2018

New Think, Do, Learn Social Sciences 1 Madrid Edition, Classbook (page 43), Nina Lauder y Blanca Morote, Oxford University Press España, S.A. 2018

ByME (Ediciones Bilingües S.L.) "Natural Science 3 Learn Together" (Madrid) PB, Primary (page 41)

New Think, Do, Learn Natural Sciences 6 Teacher’s Book Pack, Living Things poster, Oxford University Press España, S.A. 2019

En el Corazón de AICLE; materiales y métodos Teresa Ting, UCO Press, 2018

CLIL Skills https://www.rosietanner.com/images/docs/CLILSkills_pdf.pdf by (Authors): Liz Dale, Wibo van der Es, Rosie Tanner and (Illustrators): Stephan Timmers, Total Shot Productions, Delft

ByME (Ediciones Bilingües S.L.) Biology and Geology 3 SB Secondary (pages 47 and 67)

The CLIL Resource Pack (page 123) by Margaret Grieveson and Wendy Superfine, Delta Publishing | Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH, Stuttgart, 2018

ByME (Ediciones Bilingües S.L.) Natural Science 3 TB, Primary (pages 33 and 34)

Think, Do, Learn Natural Sciences 6 Madrid Edition, Classbook (page 62) Amanda Jane McLoughlin and Robert Quinn, Oxford University Press España S.A. 2018

Think, Do, Learn Natural Sciences 3 Teacher’s Resources (Unit 6 Test A and Test C), Amanda Jane McLoughlin, Oxford University Press España, S.A. 2018

Think, Do, Learn Natural Sciences 6 Andalucia, Teacher’s Book (pages 48 and 49), Amanda Jane McLoughlin y Jayne Quoiani, Oxford University Press España, S.A. 2018

Contents

About The Author

Aims

1 Introduction

2 The Underlying Principles Of CLIL

3 Liaising With Other Departments

4 Assessment In CLIL

5 Writing Teacher’s Notes

6 Conclusion

A Checklist For Creating CLIL Materials

Glossary

References

Commentaries On Tasks

About The Author

I first moved from the world of ELT teaching to CLIL teaching in 2008, when I was offered a job in a soft CLIL programme (a programme in which content is taught as a part of a wider ELT programme) in a primary school in the north of Spain. I became the science and arts and crafts teacher, and had to create all my own materials for this. I worked in the programme for six years, by which time I had managed to produce some fairly decent materials.

I gave several conference workshops at ELT conferences on CLIL, which, at that time was still a fairly new phenomenon in Spain and was approached by a Spanish publisher to work on a student’s book for grade 1 science. From there I was offered work with other publishers, and in 2015 I began working for OUP, Spain. My first books for OUP were upper-primary social and natural science coursebooks, activity books and teacher’s books and since then I have also written tests, extension worksheets, revision worksheets and the second editions.