This book offers a new methodological framework for the CLIL classroom, focusing on how to guide input and support output. Full of real-life examples and practical guidelines, the book provides support to both novice and experienced CLIL teachers.
Areas covered include: the language used in CLIL; CLIL teacher training; materials design for CLIL; assessment in CLIL.
Extra resources are available on the website: www.oup.com/elt/teacher/clil
Phil Ball is a CLIL author and teacher trainer based in northern Spain.
Keith Kelly is a writer and speaker on CLIL worldwide, and is based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
John Clegg is a textbook author and CLIL consultant based in London.
Phil Ball born 1957 in Vancouver, Canada is a British writer based in Spain. He has lived in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, for over twenty years. Born in Canada to English parents, Phil Ball grew up in Grimsby on the north east coast of England, having moved there as a child in 1957. As a youngster Phil Ball supported Grimsby Town, saying "I was brought up on lower league football". After finishing University, Ball took up an English teaching post in a state comprehensive school in Hull. He subsequently taught in Peru and later Oman, eventually moving to San Sebastián after the first Gulf War.
This is the perfect introduction to CLIL. This book covers what CLIL is (and isn't), how CLIL should and could be implemented in schools, what the current situation at schools is like, what the current reserach is and how teachers can teach CLIL in their classrooms and what to look out for and consider when wanting to teach CLIL.