Achilleas Kostoulas

Applied Linguistics & Language Teacher Education

Tag: CLIL

  • Multilingual Learning in Low-Resource Contexts: Opportunities and Obstacles (Call for papers)

    Multilingual Learning in Low-Resource Contexts: Opportunities and Obstacles (Call for papers)

    Bilingual education and (CLIL) are often associated with relatively well-resourced teaching contexts. However, an upcoming book edited by Elizabeth Erling and John Clegg aims to challenge this perception, and the editors of the book are keen to receive your proposals exploring aspects of multilingual education in low-resource settings. 

  • CLIL and Immersion: Some differences

    CLIL and Immersion: Some differences

    This post discusses differences between CLIL and bilingual immersion programmes.

  • Transgressing Curricular Borderlines in Language Education

    Transgressing Curricular Borderlines in Language Education

    The first chapters of the Challenging Boundaries in Language Education have been submitted. The focus of both these contributions, by Katerina Vourdanou and Dietmar Tatzl, is on combining language education with other curricular objectives.

  • Things I didn’t do in IATEFL

    Things I didn’t do in IATEFL

    The last time I attended the IATEFL annual conference was in 2015, when Magdalena de Stefani, Maria Muniz, Juup Stelma and I took part in a symposium on Teaching English to Young Learners. Since then, I have always made a point of attending again, and I have consistently failed to do so. Life happens. Academic…

  • Call for Chapters: English-Medium Instruction in Japan

    Call for Chapters: English-Medium Instruction in Japan

    A call for chapters has been issued for an edited collection focussing on English Medium Instruction (EMI) in Japanese higher education. The book, to be edited by Howard Brown (University of Niigata), aims to generate “a picture of EMI in Japan, its development, its current situation and its future”, by looking into topics such as “how…

  • CLIL in Greece: Uncritical and Unhelpful

    CLIL in Greece: Uncritical and Unhelpful

    The Greek ELT apparatus suddenly become obsessed with CLIL. This post looks into its critical adoption and asks uncomfortable questions.

  • Reading list for CLIL

    Reading list for CLIL

    Back in 2012, when I was still more actively involved in English Language Teaching, I wrote a post about Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and the ways in which it is implemented in Greek education. In an attempt to preserve readability and maintain focus on my main argument, that CLIL was used in ways…

  • Cross-curricular Approaches to Language Education

    Cross-curricular Approaches to Language Education

    Call for Papers The 15th International Conference on Applied Linguistics, organised by the Greek Applied Linguistics Association (GALA), will  be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 22-25 November 2012. The overarching theme for this conference is Cross-curricular Approaches to Language Education, and the organisers are inviting papers on the following topics: Content-based Education Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Immersion Education…

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