How CLIL can provide a pragmatic means to renovate science education - even in a sub-optimally bilingual context

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 354-374

  Grandinetti, Maria ^a   Langellotti, Margherita ^b   Ting, Y L Teresa ^c  

^a English Department   (Italy)

^b Science Department   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

academic literacy; CLIL science materials development; language and content aware instruction; task based learning; upper level science education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878543759     PISSN: 13670050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2013.777390     Document Type: Article

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