Soft CLIL and English Language Teaching : Understanding Japanese Policy, Practice and Implications Paperback / softback

by Makoto Ikeda, Shinichi Izumi, Yoshinori Watanabe, Richard Pinner, Matthew (Okayama Prefectural Okayamadaianji Secondary Education School, Japan) Davis

Part of the Routledge Series in Language and Content Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education series

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Description

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a transformative and powerful approach to language education and has had a significant impact on educational pedagogy in recent years.

Despite burgeoning literature on the efficacy and implementation of CLIL, there remains a gap between CLIL and English Language Teaching (ELT).

Many practitioners wonder how they can â€˜do CLILâ€™ if their main classes are focused on English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

This volume addresses these concerns by examining the experiences of various CLIL practitioners in the EFL context of Japan.

Chapters outline the CLIL methodology, the differences in â€˜hard CLILâ€™ (subject led) and â€˜soft CLILâ€™ (language-oriented) before focusing on the EFL interpretations of soft-CLIL.

Although the distinction of hard CLIL and soft CLIL has been mentioned in several publications, this is the first book-length exploration of this issue, featuring chapters examining expectations, challenges, material support, implementation, and even motivation in CLIL classrooms.

All of this culminates in a review of the potential and future of CLIL in EFL contexts, paving the way for more widespread and well informed implementation of CLIL all over the world.