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'I Wouldn't Say There Is Anything Language Specific': The Disconnect between Tertiary CLIL Teachers' Understanding of the General Communicative and Pedagogical Functions of Language

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  • المؤلفون: Fürstenberg, Ulla (ORCID Fürstenberg, Ulla (ORCID 0000-0002-5551-3204); Morton, Tom (ORCID Morton, Tom (ORCID 0000-0002-4255-2992); Kletzenbauer, Petra (ORCID Kletzenbauer, Petra (ORCID 0000-0001-9999-8592); Reitbauer, Margit (ORCID Reitbauer, Margit (ORCID 0000-0001-8173-0395)
  • اللغة:
    English
  • المصدر:
    Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning. Jul-Dec 2021 14(2):293-322.
  • الموضوع:
    2021
  • نوع التسجيلة:
    Journal Articles
    Reports - Research
    Tests/Questionnaires
  • معلومة اضافية
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • المصدر:
      30
    • Education Level:
      Higher Education
      Postsecondary Education
    • الموضوع:
      Content and Language Integrated Learning; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Language Usage; Teaching Methods; Teacher Education; Foreign Countries; Language of Instruction; Second Language Instruction; English (Second Language); Language Skills
    • الموضوع:
      Austria
    • ISSN:
      2011-6721
      2322-9721
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      CLIL teachers, particularly in tertiary "hard" CLIL settings, tend to underestimate the role of language for developing conceptual understanding of new content. Nevertheless, they consistently engage with English outside the classroom and even report a variety of activities that they carry out in English with the explicit hope that this will improve their language skills. However, they do not seem to develop transfer strategies that would allow them to benefit from this language engagement in their teaching. The results of a nation-wide study on CLIL teacher wellbeing in Austria confirmed this disconnect, prompting our present follow-up study, which aims to combine teacher training and research and to raise tertiary CLIL teachers' levels of Teacher Language Awareness (TLA). By means of an online questionnaire, class observations and stimulated recall interviews, we explored teachers' conceptualization of language, specifically their awareness of the language needed for effective content teaching. Results suggest that research-based TLA coaching must be part of CLIL teacher training to resolve the disconnect between the general communicative functions of language, on the one hand, and the pedagogical functions of language, on the other hand. This can help teachers unlock the potential of their existing language engagement for improving their classroom discourse and practices.
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      As Provided
    • الموضوع:
      2022
    • الرقم المعرف:
      EJ1347818