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Offers an innovative, holistic and evidence-based pedagogic approach to deeper learning for all subjects of schooling.
List of contents
Foreword; Part I. CLIL - Moving On: 1. Understanding the CLIL phenomenon - developments and directions; 2. Problematising CLIL - bringing the outside in and inside out; Part II. Pluriliteracies: Building a Pedagogical Approach for Deeper Learning: 3. Moving towards pluriliteracies; 4. The mechanics of deeper learning; 5. Drivers of deeper learning; 6. Mentoring deeper learning; Part III. Putting a Pluriliteracies Approach into Practice: 7. A paradigm shift: from classrooms to learning ecologies; 8. Learnscaping: designing ecosystems for PTL; 9. Repositioning the language classroom for pluriliteracies contexts; 10. Closing comments: the road ahead.
About the author
Do Coyle is Chair in Languages Education and Classroom Pedagogy at the University of Edinburgh. Oliver Meyer is Head of the Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz. Together, they have been working on a shared vision for deeper learning across subjects and languages. The pedagogic approach presented in this book is the result of extensive collaboration with expert practitioners and researchers around the world.Do Coyle is Chair in Languages Education and Classroom Pedagogy at the University of Edinburgh. Oliver Meyer is Head of the Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz. Together, they have been working on a shared vision for deeper learning across subjects and languages. The pedagogic approach presented in this book is the result of extensive collaboration with expert practitioners and researchers around the world.
Summary
By breaking down the latest research in CLIL, this book introduces the key mechanics and drivers of deeper learning to show how a focus on disciplinary literacies can be put into practise. Engaging and practical, this book will be invaluable to both academics and education practitioners.
