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T1 Textbooks for Content and Language Integrated Learning: policy, market and appropriate didactics?
A1 Martín del Pozo, Maria Ángeles
A1 Rascón Estébanez, Débora
K1 inglés (lengua) -didáctica- métodos
K1 inglés (lengua) - Estudio y enseñanza (Primaria)
K1 CLIL
K1 textbooks
K1 bilingual education
K1 materials design
K1 5801.07 Métodos Pedagógicos
K1 5701.03 Bilingüismo
AB The paper begins by approaching the concept of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) providing a brief overview of the history of bilingual  education. The influence of the linguistic policies of the European Union is discussed along with some beliefs about language teaching and how both have influenced the celerity of CLIL implementation, momentum and expansion. There are some indicators of the lack of a theoretical framework for CLIL, of insufficient teacher education and or inadequacy of materials. It is necessary to reflect systematically on to what extent commercially published textbooks match the demands of bilingual education. The second section centers on CLIL textbooks, mainly those commercialized by publishers, by referring to some recent studies which attempt to approach systematically their design and use. Since, by definition CLIL includes both content and language, our research question is if content books (in English) also include content and language objectives. A corpus of 25 books from different subjects, years, and publishers is analyzed. The analysis shows an insufficient presence of linguistic objectives. Some reflections are made about this scarcity with the warning that this lack could hindrance an efficient implementation of CLIL. Thus, it could be said that these textbooks are not the product ofdiscipline or didactic considerations but the result of the logic of market, publishers and linguistic policy.
PB FahrenHouse
SN 1698-7799
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74690
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/74690
LA spa
NO Martín del Pozo, M. A., Rascón Estébanez, D. (2015). Textbooks for Content and Language Integrated Learning: policy, market and appropriate didactics?. Foro de Educación, 13(18), pp. 123-141.
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 02-feb-2025