AILA ReviewPub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1075/aila.22020.den
J. Denman, E. Schooten, R. de Graaff
{"title":"Inclusive CLIL","authors":"J. Denman, E. Schooten, R. de Graaff","doi":"10.1075/aila.22020.den","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.22020.den","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Bilingual education using a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach seems in many contexts to select or attract the more able and more academically-inclined pupils, or only be available to pupils in higher academic secondary streams. Positive effects of CLIL for target language proficiency development may therefore be due in part to this cognitive or academic selection effect. Can the target language skills of pupils with lower scholastic attainment – a group which, in several educational contexts, has less access to CLIL programs – also benefit from the CLIL approach?\u0000 This two-year longitudinal quasi-experimental research, part of a larger study, focused on the development of oral proficiency skills of three cohorts of 603 pre-vocational pupils in 25 classes in the Netherlands in both CLIL and non-CLIL programs. Despite the lack of explicit school-based selection procedures for pre-vocational pupils’ participation in CLIL, there were significant differences in favor of the CLIL groups in the initial levels of English oral proficiency, fluency, and Willingness to Communicate. Furthermore, the CLIL pupils showed significantly more growth than the non-CLIL control group in English oral proficiency, but not for fluency or Willingness to Communicate. This positive result for the CLIL group did not appear to be moderated by pupil background variables. Despite the small effect sizes found, these results indicate that the CLIL approach can have a positive effect on the foreign language proficiency of pupils in less academic educational streams.","PeriodicalId":45044,"journal":{"name":"AILA Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44352423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AILA ReviewPub Date : 2022-12-31DOI: 10.1075/aila.22025.cro
Russell Cross
{"title":"Addressing social equity by making explicit the implicit value\u0000 systems within content and language learning","authors":"Russell Cross","doi":"10.1075/aila.22025.cro","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.22025.cro","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Despite efforts to redress the problem of social inequity within\u0000 education, data reveals the student attainment gap continues to widen on the\u0000 basis of socioeconomic background, particularly within Anglophone contexts\u0000 (OECD, 2019; Wilkinson & Pickett, 2009). Bourdieu’s (1986) concept of ‘cultural\u0000 capital’ has been one especially powerful concept for understanding the causes\u0000 of such inequity as it relates to social class, and how entrenched patterns of\u0000 privilege within institutions, such as schools, value certain forms of cultural\u0000 capital – and associated ways of knowing, being, and doing – over others. Much\u0000 of the existing CLIL research on social (in)equity has tended to examine either\u0000 the impact of programmatic conditions on dis/advantage (e.g., streaming, access;\u0000 see also Evniskaya & Llinares, this issue), or the role of language for\u0000 enabling more inclusive instructional practices (e.g., differentiation,\u0000 scaffolding). Both lines of inquiry have produced valuable insights on how CLIL\u0000 can contribute to more equitable outcomes, but this paper aims to offer a third\u0000 line, focusing on how greater equity can be achieved through the\u0000 conceptualization of culture within CLIL contexts. Informed by Bourdieu’s\u0000 concept of ‘cultural capital’ which has helped advance class-based\u0000 understandings of inequity, the paper develops a pedagogic framework that\u0000 explicitly accounts for culture when there is a simultaneous focus on both\u0000 language and content, drawing on examples from instructional practice.","PeriodicalId":45044,"journal":{"name":"AILA Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46747404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}