RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Tapping into the intellectual capital at the University
A1 Griffith-Bourn, Mary Margaret
K1 Enseñanza bilingüe
K1 Profesores - Formación profesional
AB AbstractContent and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is as full of challenges as it is of possibilities. We will explore thechallenges while seeking realistic solutions as eight Computer Science professors teach their subjects through English for thefirst time. We hope to gain insights into the bilingual classroom at the university level where teacher training can aid inprofessional development. Kevin Haines (2017) has posed the question about policies, principles and practice in bilingualsettings, suggesting that we still need to address the challenging question: “who will support the teachers?”.In this paper we will observe problems and solutions to bilingual teaching from the ethnographic point of view of actionresearch. This is a collaborative project that brings CLIL methodology into the content classroom and assesses teacherperformance in order for university professors to see CLIL in practice. This article is an overview of CLIL practicum whereteachers move from theory to practice in a purposeful intent to improve instruction in a second language. In this project theinteraction is based on the multiple perspectives of computer science professors, a CLIL specialist as well as opinions fromstudents. It is with these multiple perspectives that we have put our in-service training into action.Many university professors outside foreign language areas need more in-service training to face the challengesunderlying teaching through a second language. Our motivation leads us to these three proposals action research, teachertraining and qualitative assessment of the CLIL experience. We hold that research in education must make the move toward amore qualitative assessment. As researchers, perhaps we need to describe less and do more by putting our research intoaction.
YR 2017
FD 2017-09-26
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14534
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/14534
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 27 ene 2026