The course will enable you to develop understanding, expertise and skills related to Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). As part of the course you will consider the qualities and skills required by teachers involved in CLIL, as well as the modes of delivery and types of classroom interaction most appropriate to CLIL. The course explores in practical ways the materials and methodology appropriate to CLIL, so that you will be able to develop a range of practical activities for CLIL lessons and programmes. By the end of this course you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to create your own high quality CLIL lessons.

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" Everything was wonderful. Especially the treatment and the way the tutors thought. "

Participant - 2018

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Location: Norwich
 
Experience:
Teachers of subjects across the curriculum teaching through the medium of English as well as language teachers
 
Language Level: Minimum level A2 to B1
 
Course dates: 2023 dates to be announced
 
Certification:
NILE Certificate
 
Course Length: 1 week
 
Course fees:
Registration fee: £150
Course fee:£525
Accommodation: £238 (1 week)
 
Accommodation: Homestay & Residential
 
Minimum age: 18
 
Max class size: 16
 
Free social and cultural programme
 
Cross-curricular and cultural workshops
 
Specialist ELT Library
 
Complementary eLearning platform

Course content

 
Identifying the key parameters of the CLIL approach
 
Developing a range of practical activities for CLIL lessons and programmes
 
Guiding learners’ understanding and encouraging learners’ spoken output in CLIL
 
Identifying the language of curricular subjects at word, sentence & text levels
 
Formative assessment principles and practice in CLIL
 
Promoting and supporting thinking skills in CLIL
 
Developing CLIL materials in line with CLIL materials design principles;
 
Demonstrating understanding of CLIL through a micro-teaching task

You will look at the necessary skills required for CLIL teachers, explore materials and methodologies appropriate to CLIL and raise your language awareness and linguistic competences. Key issues in course design will be examined, as well as testing and assessment procedures in CLIL contexts.

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" Course for CLIL was useful. Language support was very good and useful. "

Jiri

Timetable

This course consists of 25 hours of tuition, delivered between 09:15 and 16:00, Monday - Friday. You will also take part in cross-curricular workshops on a variety of topics, and each course includes a free evening and weekend programme of social and cultural activities and trips.

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Further Information

Specific course content comes from feedback you and other participants give us through pre-course questionnaires, identifying your needs and priorities.

Time will be built into the course for reflection and for you to consider how to adapt ideas from the course to your classroom in your own professional contexts.

NILE offers homestay accommodation with carefully selected hosts and residential accommodation at the University of East Anglia. NILE’s dedicated student welfare team can be reached 24 hours a day.

All NILE courses involve a significant element of English language improvement and/or the development of language awareness.

Course Leader: Phil Ball

Phil Ball Phil is based in San Sebastián in Spain. He is a CLIL materials writer and teacher-trainer and has been closely involved with the award-winning Basque project, ‘Eleanitz’. He has been involved in several European-based CLIL projects, and has written a wide variety of CLIL-based textbooks for the Basque and Spanish social science and English language programmes. He co-designed the new ‘CLIL Essentials’ online course for the British Council and is the co-author of the new book about CLIL, ‘Putting CLIL into Practice’ (OUP 2015) and his CLIL textbook series for the Basque curriculum was nominated for the ELTONS. Innovation Award in 2016.

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