CA21114 - CLIL Network for Languages in Education: Towards bi- and multilingual disciplinary literacies (CLILNetLE)

This Action responds to the move into mainstream education of Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning (CLIL), i.e., the teaching of non-language subjects through a foreign language. Ongoing challenges in CLIL practice and research negatively affect the realisation of CLIL’s full potential, which lies primarily in helping school-leavers achieve the competence to use at least one foreign language confidently for professional and academic purposes. Young Europeans clearly require such bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies, complementing that in their first language, to succeed in employment and  higher education. 
Through connecting researchers across Europe, this Action will develop an impactful, shared research agenda and dissemination strategy, targeting CLIL’s educational potential to support the development of bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies. This Action, for the first time, integrates research clusters from language education, focusing on CLIL and subject education experts working on education through the main language of education. To allow for a holistic understanding of the use and development of bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies, further expertise on digital media and multilingual schools is included.

Aims of this Action are to

1. develop a shared conceptualisation and research agenda for the investigation of bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies in CLIL
2. provide an accessible collection of standardised research instruments and research training 
3. identify patterns of use, development and existing good practices in terms of supporting bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies at school, focusing on grades 5-13
4. disseminate information on supporting the development of bi/multilingual disciplinary literacies in CLIL classes primarily to educational stakeholders and within academia, but also to post-secondary and industry stakeholders and the general public