Angel M. Y. Lin

The book is an attempt to combine theory with practice of language across the curriculum (LAC) and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). As the author points out, LAC and CLIL constitute rapidly growing areas of both research and practice in many parts of the world, especially in Asia, Australia, and Europe (p. 1). While LAC arose in the 1970s in the UK as a whole-school approach to academic literacy development for all learners and not just additional language speakers, CLIL is ‘a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language’ (Coyle et al. 2010) and has attracted many researchers, teachers, teacher educators, and administrators since its first launch in Europe in the 1990s (Marsh 2002), particularly in the field of English as a foreign/second/additional language (EFL/ESL/EAL). As an umbrella term, CLIL has a variety of definitions and encompasses different forms of using language as the medium of instruction. In addition, a multiplicity of terms, including immersion, content-based instruction (CBI), content-based language teaching (CBLT), CLIL, and English medium instruction (EMI), have been used to refer to instructional approaches for the integration of content and language learning, which can be a source of confusion in relevant studies. This may well explain why effective implementation of CLIL in real teaching practice remains a big problem although CLIL is no longer foreign to most EFL/ESL/EAL teachers. Therefore, this book is a timely publication, as it ‘has arisen from an immediate and real need’ according to the author (p. 2). As such, it will contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of CLIL.

Applied linguistics · Curriculum · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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