Speaker's Abstract

Title: Academic Literacies in CLIL: a bi/multidimensional approach

"Temporality matters: Audio-synchronous textual enhancement as an attention trigger and shaper in reading-while-listening"
​Students’ ability to understand subject content and communicate knowledge in ways that are specific to each academic field is necessary for school success. In today’s globalized world, these skills are increasingly required not only in students’ first language but also in English, which is widely used in education and professional contexts. Content and Language Integrating (CLIL) is now a well-established educational approach in many parts of the world due to the growth of globalisation, the role of English as a lingua franca and the interest in expanding students’ bi/multilingual competences. While 20 years ago the main research and pedagogical interests were related to the effect of CLIL on students’ general proficiency in the target language, CLIL has proved to offer valuable research and pedagogical insights beyond that. Drawing on research conducted by the UAM-CLIL research group (http://www.uam-clil.org) and CLILNetLE (https://www.clilnetle.eu/), in this presentation I will discuss the impact of CLIL beyond students’ general language proficiency, on other areas that characterise quality education, such as students’ development of bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies, critical thinking, equity and content/language teacher collaboration. I will revisit the concept of academic literacies in bi/multilingual education, through the analysis of how textual, multimodal and digital literacies are shaped by contextual variables, such as curricular and teacher expectations, educational levels, specific disciplines and out-of-school practices.

Ana Llinares is full professor of Applied Linguistics in the English department at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). She has published widely on Content and Language Integrated Learning, mainly applying Systemic Functional Linguistics and other related models. She is principal investigator of the UAM-CLIL research group (http://www.uam-clil.org) and vice-chair of the COST Action CLIL NetLE (https://www.clilnetle.eu/). She is co-author of highly cited books like the The Roles of Language in CLIL, published by Cambridge University Press, and Applied Linguistics Perspectives on CLIL, published by John Benjamins. She is co-editor of the Journal of Immersion and Content-based Language Education.